There's a particular poignancy behind the title of Magnus Öström's first album as a bandleader, Thread of Life.
The drummer in E.S.T., the leading jazz group of the Noughties, Öström refers to the thread of life as the energy that keeps everything alive but warns that as it is only a thin thread, it can be cut at any minute.
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