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Mats Gustafsson

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Mats Gustafsson was born 1964 in Umeå, is a Swedish saxophone player and a stalwart on the Scandinavian free jazz scene. He first came to the attention of lovers of improvised music as part of a duo with Christian Munthe in 1986 and the band Gush. He has later played widely with musicians such as Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, Paul Lovens, Barry Guy and Derek Bailey. Since the early 1990s, Mats Gustafsson has been a regular visitor to the U.S., forming a particular affinity with Chicago musicians such as Hamid Drake, Michael Zerang and Ken Vandermark and recording for the city’s OkkaDisk label.

In addition to projects with musicians, Mats Gustafsson has worked extensively with artists from the worlds of dance, theatre, poetry and painting.

Album

Testament

Label: Rune Grammofon
Released: 2024
Track listing: Work Song For A Scattered Past; The Dark Inside Of Cabbage; Four Ways Of Dealing With One Way; Running Bison Breathing Entity Sleeping Reality; One Testament One Aim One More To Go Again.

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Fire!: Testament

Read "Testament" reviewed by Chris May


Recorded and then played back at reduced speed, even a seemingly simple two-note bird call reveals elaborate complexity and detail. It is worth hanging on to that thought when approaching the deceptively straightforward Testament. On a cursory listening, most of the album--an amalgam of Mats Gustafsson's slow-and-deliberate long-held low-end baritone notes and Johan Berthling and Andreas ...

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Mats Gustafsson: Hidros 9 Mirrors

Read "Hidros 9 Mirrors" reviewed by Mark Corroto


For saxophonist, composer, conductor Mats Gustafsson, the motto “go big, or go home" has always applied to his music. Whether it is blowing his baritone saxophone in the avant garage band The Thing or battling the Japanese noise artist Merzbow, Gustafsson is constantly expanding concepts of composed and improvised music. Through various ensembles such as Gush, ...

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Trespass Trio featuring Susana Santos Silva: Live in Oslo

Read "Live in Oslo" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Adding Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos Silva to Swedish saxophonist Martin Küchen's Trespass Trio for the 2018 Blowout Festival in Oslo, Norway was “a no-brainer." The inclusion of her trumpet, which features in ensembles led by Mats Gustafsson, Fred Frith, and Torbjörn Zetterberg, to name but a few, requires little or no thought. It is as if ...

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Rodrigo Amado The Bridge: Beyond The Margins

Read "Beyond The Margins" reviewed by John Sharpe


The Bridge may be one of the most potent all round units assembled by Portuguese tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado. That is saying something considering his previous alliances with collaborators as varied as multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, trumpeter Peter Evans, trombonist Jeb Bishop and drummer Chris Corsano. This time out his partners read like an extract from an ...

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Echoes

Label: Rune Grammofon
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD1: Echoes: I See Your Eye Part 1; Echoes: Forest Without Shadows; Echoes: To Gather It All; Once; Sliding Whisper Of Pain; Echoes: Lost Eyes In Dying Hand; Welcoming You; Drinking Your Dream; CD2: Echoes: A Lost Farewell; Nothing Astray; All Falling; In Those Veins; A Silvernet; Echoes: Cala Boca Menino; Double Loneliness; Respirations; Not Yet Born; The Blind Courage Of Life; Echoes: I See Your Eye Part 2.

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Why Do You Mourn

Label: Trost Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Snow; Doomfunk MCs; Wasted Blame; Winter Doesn't End; Whose Face; Smokey Black; Black Vivaldi Sonata.

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Vinyl Box

Label: Ni Vu Ni Connu
Released: 2023
Track listing: When Will The Blues Leave? (EP): Take 1&2, Take 3&4; Drastic Plastic: Corsica 1, Corsica 2, Corsica 3, Drastic Plastic; Reality: Sigurd Rascher Variatoner, Reality; Natural Music: Bird Notes And Folk Tunes, Spontaneous Creation; Någonting: P, Någonting; To Bengt (10 inch): Det Behöver Inte Va Mer, Det ÄrBara En Fras, Alltså, Den Här Har Jag Inte Övat På; Vacker Men Kort, Alltså, Det Är Konkret musik Det Här, Alltså, Short I, Short II, Short III, Cellar Fright I, Cellar Fright III, Otterberget I, Otterberget II, Otterberget III, Rrrhhmmmm rrrrrrrhhhhmmmmm!; Flickorna I Smäland.

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Bengt "Frippe" Nordström: Vinyl Box

Read "Vinyl Box" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Sometimes an artist can tilt the axis of a genre. Tilt it by just a degree or two. The effects might not be felt as such in the moment, but after decades their imprint is profound. Peter Brötzmann was one example, as was Derek Bailey. Add to that list, the Swedish saxophonist Bengt “Frippe" Nordström (1936 ...


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