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Viva Black featuring Gretli & Heidi: Mal Sirine
by Roger Farbey
Viva Black was formed in 2013 by Swedish bassist Filip Augustson featuring Eva Lindal on violin and Christopher Cantillo on drums. Their first eponymously titled CD was released in 2015 receiving widespread critical praise. Their second album Minsta Gemensamma Nämnaren was released 2016. Mal Sirine, the group's third recording is augmented by the idiosyncratic duo Gretl & Heidi alias Catharina Backman and Carin Blom, who utilise glasses, bottles and their voices as instruments.Opening with the title track, the ...
read moreReadymade: Triple Point
by Eyal Hareuveni
The Swedish, Malmö-based Readymade experimental trio focuses on free improvised music with references to jazz, noise and ambient. The trio is comprised of modern jazz drummer Peter Nilsson and electro-acoustic explorers Marcus Lundgren, originally a guitarist but playing synthesizers and electronics here, and Robert Fuchs, who collaborates with Lundgren in another alternative band, Purge. Originally a double bassist in jazz and metal bands, Fuch also plays synthesizers and electronics in this trio, as well as the acoustic cello and trumpet. ...
read morePeter Danemo: Peter Danemo
by Eyal Hareuveni
Swedish drummer Peter Danemo leads his own groups and quartets. The first one featured the late pianist Esbjörn Svenssonand was called the Peter Danemo Kapell-- since the late eighties but his output as a leader is relatively rare. He is a diverse musician-composer and played in many Nordic outfits including ones that featured third stream jazz, a tribute group to hard rock bands LED and the modern jazz bands like the quartet Meloscope. His new, untitled ...
read moreTolvan Big Band: Effortlessly - Music by Helge Albin
by Eyal Hareuveni
Swedish saxophonist, composer and arranger Helge Albin has led the Tolvan Big Band since 1979. Albin turned this ambitious, up-to-date big band, located in Malmö in southern Sweden, into a musical institution with an international reputation. They have collaborated with notable American musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Liebman and Michael Brecker, British composer Mike Westbrook and Danish saxophonist Lars Møller; the band even dedicated one of its programs to new arrangements of the John Lennon songbook. ...
read moreDavid's Angels: What It Seems
by Hrayr Attarian
David's Angels creates stimulating sonic landscapes out of a unique fusion of various genres. Although electric bassist David Carlsson is the nominal leader of this innovative Danish-Swedish quartet and the producer of its second release, What It Seems, the album's signature sound is built around singer Sofie Norling's haunting delivery and incandescent tone. Norling not only penned all the lyrics, she also composed the music on this dark-hued paean to love's demise, together with keyboardist Maggi Olin.The melancholic ...
read moreDavid's Angels: What It Seems
by Eyal Hareuveni
The Swedish quartet David's Angels has proven in its debut release, Substar (Kopasetic, 2010), its ability to encompass emotionally charged issues with expressive, storytelling musical articulations. The sophomore release puts this approach in a more demanding test. What It Seems chronicles the demise of a meaningful love affair and its protagonist, singer-songwriter Sofie Norling making the peace process with its emotional implications-- the feeling of betrayal, loneliness, anger but also the needed sense of liberation. Norling's songs ...
read moreThe Opposite: In Action
by Eyal Hareuveni
The Opposite investigates improvisation and interplay through a collective group sound and open approach, assimilating elements of rock and Indian, African and Cuban musical traditions. In Sction documents this Swedish sextet live on a Swedish club tour in 2011. The live setting enable The Opposite to emphasize its formative influences, including early fusion bands like Weather Report, trumpeter Miles Davis' '70s groups--even keyboardist Sun Ra's eccentric Arkestras, through expanded improvisations. The main composers are guitarist Samuel Hällkvist ...
read moreTolvan Big Band: Tarantula Suite
by Eyal Hareuveni
The Tolvan Big Band is one of Scandinavia's most experienced big bands. Located in Malmö, in southern Sweden, this orchestra has been working since 1979 and, under saxophonist/musical director Helge Albin, has collaborated with notable Americans such as Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Liebman and Michael Brecker, British composer Mike Westbrook and Danish saxophonist Lars Møller; the band has even dedicated one of its programs to new arrangements of the John Lennon/Paul McCartney songbook. On Tarantula Suite, reed player ...
read morelim: lim with Marc Ducret
by Eyal Hareuveni
lim has been active now for more than ten years but the Swedish trio's members share a much deeper history. Saxophonist Henrik Frisk and drummer Peter Nilsson spent part of their adolescence in the same small town in southern Sweden (as did photographer Stefan Lundgren, whose art graces the release's cover), with bassist David Carlsson coming from a neighboring town. The trio has, over the years, developed tight but elastic interplay, despite the complexity of its compositions. ...
read moreThommy Andersson/Peter Nilsson/Jacob Anderskov: Triofolded
by Eyal Hareuveni
This masterful recording by Swedish-born, Denmark-resident bassist Thommy Andersson and Danish pianist Jacob Anderskov, plus Swedish drummer Peter Nilsson--each of them a leader in his own right--presents a Nordic interpretation of free improvised music. The focus of the trio is not on energetic, dense and fiery playing but on the intensity of responsive and patient interplay, tonal richness, and changing dynamics, where the leader of each improvisation is challenged by the other players in true democratic manner, free of any ...
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