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Anders Nilsson´s AORTA Ensemble: Anders Nilsson's AORTA Ensemble

Read "Anders Nilsson's AORTA Ensemble" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Swedish-born, Brooklyn-based guitarist Anders Nilsson unites two of his working ensembles into his dream project. The Swedish, Malmo-based AORTA and the New York-based Fulminate Trio first played together during Kopasetic Productions' KopaFest in Malmo in 2008. Both groups fulfill beautifully Nilsson's vision and create orchestral, open-ended, multidimensional, improvised music that references the great 1970s fusion bands, but with a much broader scope and liberties--and more importantly, free from the genre's notorious clichés.

Nilsson cites Wayne Shorter's early fusion classic Super ...


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