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Schlingerland/Dynamische Schwingungen

Label: Atavistic Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Nahbild; Kurze Studie; Etwas Entfernt Vom Mikrofon.
Six Little Pieces For Quintet
Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: 1) Medium, freies tempo 2) Medium, ruhig (bom-zeke-bom) 3) Rasche achtel 4) Schnelle triolen 5) Forsches legato 6) Langsam
Sven-Ake Johansson: Six Little Pieces For Quintet

by Glenn Astarita
Drummer Sven-Ake Johansson proclaims, “The compositions and improvisations in my quintet represent, stylistically speaking, a period of free jazz, which may, at first sight, recall the Sixties. On Six Little Pieces For Quintet, the drummer, armed with his 60’s Slingerland kit, shoots for the stars with these invigorating pieces along with band-mates who counteract the leader’s ...
Sven-: Schlingerland/Dynamische Schwingungen

by AAJ Staff
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 ...
Sven- : Schlingerland/Dynamische Schwingungen

by Derek Taylor
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 ...