Jazz Articles about Ryan Packard

About Ryan Packard

Album Review

Erik Blennow Calälv, Lisa Ullén, Finn Loxbo, Ryan Packard: Bi, In yo & Iwato

Read "Bi, In yo & Iwato" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
February 27, 2023

The three pieces here, each with a duration between twelve and thirteen minutes, are compositions by Swedish bass clarinetist Erik Blennow Calälv who is a member of the quartet The Schematics. No other members of that group join him here, but Swedish guitarist Finn Loxbo, who recorded Snow Country (Creative Sources, 2017) in a duo with Calälv, is part of the unnamed quartet. In turn, so is percussionist Ryan Packard who recorded Magnus Granberg's Night Will Fade And Fall Apart ...

Album Review

RedGreenBlue: The End And The Beginning

Read "The End And The Beginning" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
August 7, 2022

RedGreenBlue sound like they have emerged from the same synapse-snapping dope bunker that La Monte Young and Jon Hassell exited with their Theatre Of Eternal Music in the 1970s, whacked out on opium, hashish and mescaline, dazed but not confused. RedGreenBlue may or may not indulge in the same psychotropic self-medication as their Lower East Side ancestors, but their strange and beautiful debut album, The End And The Beginning, suggests they do, and that is what counts. ...