Results for "Mattias Risberg"

Mattias Risberg

The Pandemic Sessions: Solos, Part 2

by Mark Corroto
May 5, 2021

Part 1 | Part 2 The entire world was in lockdown during the COVID-19 crisis, and of course, that included musicians. Unable to tour and record with their various ensembles, many artists prepared solo projects (some recorded before the virus struck). Most of the music is very personal, as if the artists are asking ...

Zauberberg

By Mattias Risberg

Label: Kullen Reko
Released: 2020
Track listing: Zauberberg, Sweet Science; Shrink; Red Ponds; Rocks 'n Stein; Megaphone; Obstacles.

Mattias Risberg's Mining: Zauberberg

by Karl Ackermann
June 23, 2020

The Swedish pianist Mattias Risberg has teamed up with a range of well-known northern European born or based improvisers, including saxophonist Fredrik Ljungkvist and vocalist Jennie Abrahamson. He remains largely unknown in the U.S. but garnered well-deserved attention for And Now the Queen--A Tribute to Carla Bley (Lilalo records, 2016), a duo recording with Ljungkvist. Risberg ...

Live In Stripa

By Mattias Risberg

Label: Kullen Reko
Released: 2019
Track listing: March; Open up; Digging; Rödhåriga Gösta; Cave’n Caverns; Mirror; Tellus.

Mattias Risberg's Mining: Live In Stripa

by Mark Corroto
March 29, 2019

Science is beginning to acknowledge that life on earth probably began under the surface and not in some ocean. Millions of years ago, the atmosphere was so acidic, it could not support life. But underground, the conditions were ripe for single cell organisms to thrive. Today scientists discover bacteria that live nearly a mile underground without ...

Stamps

By Mattias Risberg

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Vermilion; Cobalt; Emerald; Marine; Scarlet; Sienna; Viridian; Phtalo; Crimson; Titanium; Umber.

Mattias Risberg: Stamps

by Alberto Bazzurro
September 18, 2018

Due anni fa, insieme col sassofonista--come lui svedese--Fredrik Ljungkvist, Mattias Risberg aveva dedicato a Carla Bley l'abum And Now the Queen (che già il titolo...); oggi trasferisce in solitudine in questo suo nuovo lavoro le sue passioni per le tastiere in senso lato, anche se poi, di fatto, Stamps è un album per piano solo (qua ...

Fredrik Ljungkvist / Yun Kan 10: Ten

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 2, 2013

Acclaimed Swedish reed player Fredrik Ljungkvist's key solo outfit is the Yun Kan band. This band, in its incarnation as a quintet, released two remarkable albums, Yun Kan 12345 and Badaling (Caprice, 2004 and 2007) and in recent years operated in a slimmed down version as Yun Kan 3 and as an ambitious outgrowth of the ...