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Sten Hostfalt: Eternity Check
by Dan McClenaghan
A good deal of music that falls into the free jazz/improvised music category can sound like unstructured noise to the uninitiated listener, like the sounds made by a ensemble of adolescents without a year's worth of musical training between them noodling away on unfamiliar instruments.“Turn it up loud and listen again," a mentor once ...
Sten Hostfalt: 29 Pieces for the Microtonal Guitar: Live at Knitting Factory New York
by John Kelman
Multi-instrumentalist Joe Maneri's recent release Angles of Repose demonstrated exactly how cogent his microtonal approach to improvisation has been, using extended techniques to expand on the sonic capabilities of more traditional instruments. Clearly inspired by Maneri, Sten Hostfalt takes the more rigid confines of the guitar and transforms it into an instrument equally capable of exploring ...
Eternity Check
Label: Sonus Rex
Released: 2003
Track listing: Five Days, Number Four, Krux, Eternity Check
29 Pieces For The Microtonal Guitar - Live At Knitting Factory New York
Label: Sonus Rex
Released: 2003
Track listing: I - Lighters: Sun Shot; Dialogue; Argument; Monologue; Epilogue
II - Major Changes: Spare Change; Second Chance; No Chance; Minor Change; Major Change; The Boat
III - Eight Variations: Scope; Variation; Poem; Sarabande; Tres Agile; Ballade; Micronic; Roll
IV - Alive on the Dead Screen: Part I; Part II; Part III; Part IV; Part V
V - Diplomacy: Danse Populaire; Dance Venetiano
VI - Lighters II: Sun Shot Reale; Dein Mund, Wie Eine Dreiecke; Closer
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The Sandviken Big Band: 30 Years in Business...
by Jack Bowers
I've heard and reviewed a great number of marvelous big'band albums from Europe, but none that surpasses this dynamic concert date by Sweden's superb Sandviken Big Band which has 'desert island candidate' written all over it. One can present nothing beyond an acclamatory appraisal, as Sandviken simply provides no credible reason for censure ' nor do ...
