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About Kristoffer Rosing-Schow
Instrument: Saxophone, alto
The Counterfictionals: An Incomplete Encyclopedia of Gentle Emotions
by Geno Thackara
Any hardcore film buff will tell you that plot is not really what is important--or as the estimable critic Roger Ebert often said, the thing is “not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it." This is a lesson Kristoffer Rosing-Schow and The Counterfictionals have indeed taken to heart. Their pieces are mostly modeled after inspirations from the world of cinema, but those specific sources are only jumping-off spots. The point of each piece is not which ...
Continue ReadingThe Counterfictionals: No Hay Banda
by Geno Thackara
Considering the meaning of “No hay banda"--"there is no band"--you can immediately expect some humor and irony from Kristoffer Rosing-Schow and his motley friends (who certainly are a band, and a beguiling one at that). If you also recognize the phrase from the Club Silencio scene in David Lynch's movie Mulholland Drive, it won't be a surprise that the leader is a cinema fanatic attracted to the weird and wacky. The resulting album is a fascinating experience worthy of its ...
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