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Article: Album Review

Skogen: Despairs Had Governed Me Too Long

Read "Despairs Had Governed Me Too Long" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

With their previous two Another Timbre releases, Ist Gefallen In Den Schnee (2012) and Rows (2013), Magnus Granberg's large international ensemble Skogen established themselves as purveyors of exquisitely-played spacious music, that transcends the composition-improvisation border and makes beguilingly beautiful listening. On the 2012 album, a nine-member version of the group played a one-hour-plus rendition of Granberg's ...

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Article: Album Review

Ulf Wakenius: Momento Magico

Read "Momento Magico" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Momento Magico is a solo outing from Swedish guitarist Ulf Wakenius, an exploration of three acoustic instruments--steel and nylon strung guitars and acoustic bass guitar. Wakenius undertakes this exploration across a mix of self-penned tunes and works by writers as varied as Erik Satie, Charles Trenet and Sixto Rodrigues. Wakenius is an impressively adaptable ...

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Article: Album Review

Readymade: Triple Point

Read "Triple Point" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Peter Brötzmann / Peeter Uuskyla: Dead And Useless

Read "Dead And Useless" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Nothing new, just better. Let me rephrase that, Dead And Useless is not a new recording by saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and drummer Peeter Uuskyla, it was taken from the 2006 Born Broke (Atavistic, 2008) session and was the second disc of a 2-CD set. It is, though, remastered here as a loving vinyl release (somewhere Mats ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Swedish indie label Volenza relaunches

Read "Swedish indie label Volenza relaunches" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey

At the age of 82, Torgil Rosenberg has decided that the time has come to take a back seat in the running his Swedish independent jazz label Volenza. “It's time for a new generation to take over," he says, “My future role in the company will be a purely advisory one."

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Article: Album Review

Mattias Ståhl Trio: Jag Skulle Bara Gå Ut

Read "Jag Skulle Bara Gå Ut" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

The rebirth of the vibraphone as a tool for creative music making has been a long time coming. Like the clarinet, it had to lose its nerdishness to gain acceptance. Artists like Jason Adasiewicz, Matt Moran and the Swedish-born Matthais Ståhl are making the vibes as relevant today as the mid-sixties and 1970s work of Khan ...

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News: Festival

12 Points Illuminates Diversity Of European Jazz

12 Points Illuminates Diversity Of European Jazz

Born on a hunch in Dublin, back in 2007, 12 Points, the festival of young European jazz, has grown in size and ambitions, and will celebrate its 8th edition this April in Umea, Sweden; the 2014 EU Capital of Culture. From Thursday 10th to Saturday 12th April, young musicians from all points on the European compass ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Lina Nyberg: The Sirenades

Read "Lina Nyberg: The Sirenades" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

Swedish vocalist Lina Nyberg's new album The Sirenades, her 16th since her debut twenty years ago, is her most ambitious project to date. The title word she invented derives from three words--Sirens, the ancient Greek ones who deceive you and make you forget your mission; Sirens, the long warning horns at war time and Serenade, a ...

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Article: Album Review

Kullhammar - Aalberg - Zetterberg: Basement Sessions Vol. 2

Read "Basement Sessions Vol. 2" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

This is the second installment of the Swedish trio's manifold and largely, hard-hitting Basement Sessions motif for Clean Feed Records. And while the artists incorporate a high level of experimentation, they intertwine old school jazz values into the big picture via structured compositions and free-flight improvisations amid an aggregation of contrasting hues, capacious soundscapes and more. ...

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Article: Album Review

Cecilia Persson: Open Rein

Read "Open Rein" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

Swedish pianist and composer Cecilia Persson is best known for her work in vocalist Lina Nyberg's band and with PAAVO the band she leads with vocalist Sofia Jernberg. Open Rein is Persson's debut as a solo artist, featuring a set of impressive originals. The release solidifies her status as a promising composer, improviser and bandleader, already ...


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