Out now · 2 October 2026

PAOLO INNARELLA & LUTTE BERGSLOWBallads by the Lake

An album consisting entirely of jazz ballads — recorded in the calm by lake Nedingen in Sweden.

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Paolo Innarella playing the flute on stage in atmospheric light
Paolo InnarellaPhoto: Laura Magistrelli
Lutte Berg performing on his double-neck guitar
Lutte BergPhoto: Roberto Scorta, 2023
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SLOW — Ballads by the Lake by Paolo Innarella & Lutte Berg (album artwork)
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Duo project · Jazz Ballads

SLOW

Ballads by the Lake

PAOLO INNARELLA & LUTTE BERG

Release date2 October 2026
Format & genreDuo album · Jazz ballads
LabelMultifonic Records

The full album

The complete album is out now — nine ballads, recorded live by lake Nedingen.

Track listing

  1. 1Soul Eyes6:15
  2. 2Django4:46
  3. 3Blue in Green4:50
  4. 4A Child is Born3:38
  5. 5When I Fall in Love4:02
  6. 6Canto per un amore5:08
  7. 7My one and only love5:16
  8. 8Naima6:02
  9. 9Birds and leaves5:11
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Singles out now

Three singles the duo released ahead of the album.

Background & philosophy

About the album

A unique duo project recorded in the calm by lake Nedingen in Sweden — a tribute to stillness, presence and a long friendship between two musicians.

Lake Nedingen at dusk — the photograph used on the album artwork
Lake Nedingen — detail from the album artwork

The CD “SLOW — Ballads by the Lake” is a unique project born from the long-standing friendship between Lutte Berg and Paolo Innarella. While visiting Sweden for a series of concerts at Lutte’s invitation, Innarella was deeply inspired by the surrounding pristine nature, and the idea of recording a duo album right there, in Lutte Berg’s lakeside studio, was born.

The aim was to create an album consisting entirely of ballads, far away from the frenetic pace of modern life.

The lake as protagonist, and the tempo of stillness

The music is performed by the two musicians, yet the true protagonist is the lake itself. The tranquility of the environment and the unhurried tempo dictated by the lake create a sound of profound inner peace.

Read how the album was recorded
Paolo Innarella playing the flute on stage in atmospheric light
Paolo InnarellaFlute and compositionPhoto: Laura Magistrelli
Lutte Berg performing on his double-neck guitar
Lutte BergElectric guitar and compositionPhoto: Roberto Scorta, 2023
Flute and composition

Paolo Innarella

Paolo Innarella started his studies as a classical flautist and graduated with top marks (10/10) in transverse flute. Shortly thereafter he embarked on a musical journey that led him to the saxophone and to jazz — becoming a world class jazz flautist performing with musicians such as Mike Mainieri, George Garzone, Eddie Henderson, Mick Goodrick and Ares Tavolazzi at numerous Italian and international festivals. He has released albums under his own name featuring his original compositions, such as “Melodic Art”, “Le Jardin Perdu” and “Mouche Bulle”, and composed the soundtrack for the film “Un paese ci vuole” by Vanni Vallino as well as co-composing the soundtrack for “Oasi” by Michele Bortone, screened at the Venice Film Festival.

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Guitar & Composition

Lutte Berg

Born to a Swedish mother and an Italian father, Lutte Berg moved to Italy at the age of 24 in search of his roots. During his 25 years in Italy he released five albums of original music under his own name, and as a guitarist he appears on countless recordings across jazz, pop and world music. His personal sound has taken him across the globe — New York, Hong Kong, Damascus, Aleppo, Algiers, Sanremo, Umbria Jazz and the Roccella Ionica Jazz Festival — playing with Paul McCandless, Antonello Salis, Baba Sissoko, Javier Girotto, Roberto Gatto, Ares Tavolazzi, Christian Spering and Peter Asplund among many others. He later settled in his maternal grandfather’s wooden cottage by lake Nedingen in Sweden and produced two more CDs of original music. The war in Syria and the 2015 refugee crisis inspired him to create the Flen World Orchestra, an initiative that captured the interest of the national media as well as the Swedish Royal Family.

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Visuals & live moments

Dusk, presence and the movement of the music

Paolo Innarella playing the flute on stage in atmospheric light
Flute and compositionPaolo InnarellaPhoto: Laura Magistrelli
Lutte Berg performing on his double-neck guitar
Electric guitar and compositionLutte BergPhoto: Roberto Scorta, 2023
Outside the studio by the lake during the recording session
Outside the studio by the lake during the recording sessionPhoto by Elin Asplund
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