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Anna Hogberg Attack: lena
by John Sharpe
It is a well known gambit to start an album with one of its strongest tracks. But it must have been a difficult choice for Swedish band leader and saxophonist Anna Högberg when programming her group Attack's second release. That she chose “Pappa Kom Hem," which opens with a sustained stentorian bellow from tenor saxophonist Elin Forkelid, leading to a cataclysmic free for all, announces that this is an uncompromising outfit. But the way the cut ends with the emergence ...
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by Samuel Stroup
There are moments of lena, the sophomore release from Swedish group Attack, which feel as though the ensemble is as much punk band as it is jazz sextet. Under the leadership of alto saxophonist Anna Högberg, the group plays loud and fast free jazz which is as stylish as it is raucous. Even the monochrome album art and absence of capitalized song titles reflect the album's mood, energetic and effortless. lena's six Högberg-penned tracks revisit the style of ...
read moreDidier Lasserre - Joel Grip - Niklas Barno: Can't Stop Snusing
by AAJ Italy Staff
Can't Stop Snusing, titolo che fa riferimento allo Snus, tabacco da masticare assai diffuso in Svezia, è album da maneggiare con attenzione, per evitare che un'assunzione scriteriata della musica contenuta, possa scatenare una sventagliata di controindicazioni sull'incauto ascoltatore. Il trio franco-svedese si muove per oltre cinquanta minuti nei territori della libera improvvisazione assoluta, ciascuno dei protagonisti impegnato a definire un proprio, autonomo percorso espressivo, che non sempre riesce a ricevere dal reciproco ascolto gli impulsi sufficienti e necessari ad una ...
read moreNiklas Barno / Joel Grip / Didier Lasserre: Can't Stop Snusing
by Eyal Hareuveni
The sophomore release of this Swedish-French trio is powerful as its excellent debut from two years ago, Snus (Ayler, 2010). Can't Stop Snusing, named after the Swedish moist-powder tobacco, is an infectious, raw and direct set of free jazz improvisations by fearless musicians. The trio is comprised of Swedish trumpeter Niklas Barnö and bassist Joel Grip, who also collaborate in the Swedish sextet Je Suis!, and French autodidact drummer Didier Lasserre. From the first seconds of the ...
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