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The Thing: Bag It!

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 25, 2009

Torna il trio jazzcore più devastante delle terre nordiche: Mats Gustafsson alle ance, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten al contrabbasso e Paal Nilssen-Love alla batteria [ma i primi due hanno ormai aggiunto anche l'elettronica al proprio armamentario da battaglia] alla nuova prova in studio - sotto le cure analogiche di Steve Albini e Bob Weston - si confermano ...

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The Thing: Bag It!

by A. Henkin
June 1, 2009

One of the most appealing facets of The Thing-- saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love--is the visceral experience of seeing them play live. Huddled closely on stage, wearing matching Ruby's BBQ of Austin t-shirts, dripping with sweat and manhandling their instruments, the trio is one of the modern wonders of avant-garde ...

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Action Jazz

By The Thing

Label: Smalltown Supersound
Released: 2006
Track listing: Sounds Like A Sandwich; Chisma; Broken Shadows; Ride The Sky; Better Living; Danny's Dream; The Nut/The Light; ...Through BBQ; Strayhorn.

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The Thing: Action Jazz

Read "Action Jazz" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
August 3, 2006

The Scandinavian trio known as The Thing--Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and two Norwegians, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love--seems to be rewriting the definition of its brand of brutal jazz. After being compared to Peter Brötzmann's early trios, being called a power jazz trio, and being compared to garage rock, The Thing has settled ...

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The Thing: Live At Blå / Mats Gustafsson: Catapult

by A. Henkin
September 16, 2005

Last summer, this reviewer was first exposed to the Scandinavian group The Thing in the best possible way; he was run over by them. The trio, Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love (both Norwegian), played a brutal set at the Oslo club Blå as part of that city's Jazz Festival. ...

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Garage

By The Thing

Label: Smalltown Supersound
Released: 2004
Track listing: Art Star (Yeah Yeah Yeahs); Aluminium (The White Stripes); Haunted (Norman Howard); Eine Kleine Marschmusik (Peter Br

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The Thing: Garage

Read "Garage" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 13, 2004

This is a disc you know you are going to love from the first sound of the pounding, kick-ass drums. Garage is the third release by The Thing (a trio named after Don Cherry's seminal piece “The Thing"), following two hard-to-find releases on Swedish reed master Mats Gustafsson's now defunct Crazy Wisdom label ( The Thing ...

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