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Article: Album Review

The Ägg: The Ägg

Read "The Ägg" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Put three electric guitarists, three electric bassists and four drummers in one room all coming from the vibrant Stockholm scene of free improvisation, free jazz and art rock. Let them jam freely, lock in hypnotic grooves that loosely sound like Fela Kuti's Afro-beat bands or worse, like North Korean marching bands on acid, sketch noisy textures ...

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Article: Year in Review

Eyal Hareuveni Best of 2013 List

Read "Eyal Hareuveni Best of 2013 List" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


There were so many great releases in 2013 that inspired me, provoked my conceptions about music and art, disturbed my peace of mind and mainly, enriched my life. This list--presented in no particular order and enhanced with video and Soundcloud clips--represents the tip of my listening iceberg. Kitchen Orchestra with Alexander von ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Wadada Leo Smith: Occupy the World

Read "Wadada Leo Smith: Occupy the World" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Great trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith's five epic extended compositions collected on the double album Occupy The World mark him as a major American composer with a musical language and artistic vision that transcends the boundaries of the Afro-American heritage of jazz. Smith wrote complex orchestral works before, most notably on the masterful, extensive 4-discs ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Introducing Sweden's Havtorn Records

Read "Introducing Sweden's Havtorn Records" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The new Swedish label, Havtorn Records, was founded in 2011 by three musicians-- drummer Måns Wikenmo, bassist Donovan von Martens and pianist Oscar Johansson. The three longed to create a label that would also be a platform for a community of a new generation of musicians, most of them residing in the cities of Malmö and ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Fredrik Ljungkvist / Yun Kan 10: Ten

Read "Fredrik Ljungkvist / Yun Kan 10: Ten" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Acclaimed Swedish reed player Fredrik Ljungkvist's key solo outfit is the Yun Kan band. This band, in its incarnation as a quintet, released two remarkable albums, Yun Kan 12345 and Badaling (Caprice, 2004 and 2007) and in recent years operated in a slimmed down version as Yun Kan 3 and as an ambitious outgrowth of the ...

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Fire! Orchestra: Exit!

Read "Exit!" reviewed by John Kelman


Sometimes it's best not to predict. If the idea of expanding Fire!'s core trio of saxophonist/electric pianist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Johan Berthling and drummer Andreas Werlin into Fire! Orchestra's massive, 28-piece behemoth was based on the trio's extant discography-- You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago (Rune Grammofon, 2009), Unreleased (Rune Grammofon, 2011), and In the Mouth ...

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Tva For Tommy

Label: Found You Recordings
Released: 2012
Track listing: Nisseparken; Muswell Hill; Morval Road; Runt Runt Runt; Blues For J.G.; Baby Boom Boom; Greenwich Street; Sideways Forward; Kvaddlarna.

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Tva For Tommy: Tva For Tommy

Read "Tva For Tommy" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Behind the odd name Två För Tommy (Two for Tommy in Swedish) stand three of the best Swedish improvisers: reed player Fredrik Ljungkvist, a founding member of the acclaimed Norwegian-Swedish quintet Atomic; vibraphonist Mattias Ståhl, who leads his own bands, Ståhls Blå and Ståhls Trio, and has collaborated with countless other outfits; and double bassist Patric ...

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Article: Album Review

Anders Jormin: Ad Lucem

Read "Ad Lucem" reviewed by John Kelman


It may be frustrating when an artist releases albums infrequently, but when quality trumps quantity all is forgiven. Swedish bassist Anders Jormin's discography as a leader remains small--just eleven records as a leader since his auspicious 1988 Dragon debut, Eight Pieces. Still, with a high profile résumé sporting fellow ECM label mates such as pianist Bobo ...

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Article: Album Review

Lina Nyberg: Palaver

Read "Palaver" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Few artists can evoke poetic musical images of such strong and diverse personae as Brazilian singer, composer and political activist Caetano Veloso, Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, French impressionist composer Claude Debussy, American author Paul Auster, American innovative architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Persian Sufi poet Jelâluddîn Rumi on a single album. ...


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