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Sven-: Schlingerland/Dynamische Schwingungen

Read "Schlingerland/Dynamische Schwingungen" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
November 1, 2000

Solo free improv drum recordings tend to send most jazz fans scurrying for cover. But for the bold, there are some sweet exceptions. Sven-Åke Johansson's 1972 record Schlingerland presents just the man and his drum set, and it's a fascinating listen. Johansson seems intent on exploring the polyrhythmic possibilities of his kit, building up percolating rhythms and then subtly altering them over time. A lot of this music embodies aspects of the West African drumming tradition: Johansson overlays asymmetric drum ...

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Album Review

Sven- : Schlingerland/Dynamische Schwingungen

Read "Schlingerland/Dynamische Schwingungen" reviewed by Derek Taylor

by Derek Taylor
October 1, 2000

Johansson is a musician largely lost on American jazz audiences. Though he was a seminal force on Peter Brötzmann’s legendary Machine Gun (fmp) and collaborated on various occasions with pianist Alexander von Schilippenbach in the 1970s his discography has been something of a recondite affair, revealed only to those musical archeologists willing to dig. In like fashion, this album, originally self-produced and release, had an initial pressing of only several hundred copies making it’s rarity fit well into the rubric ...