Sven-Åke Johansson
Neuköllner Modelle (Sektion 1-2)
Sektion 1-2 is an extravagant LP-production which depicts the new musical thoughts and craftsmanships of three musician identities who couldn’t be further apart (or better distributed) in age. Together they work on the form. The result is a radica…
Blended Box
Awesome 5xCD box featuring collective releases from the 70s to the recent years by the Swedish legendary pioneer of free jazz and improvised music. Sven-Åke Johansson (Mariestad, Sweden, 1943) is a composer, a drummer, a poet, an author and also a v…
Stockholm Connection
A unique 3CD-box from Umlaut Records putting in attention the musical collaborations between two of Sweden’s most headstrong musicians: the pioneers Bengt “Frippe” Nordström and Sven-Åke Johansson. The previously non-released music was recorded in St…
Konzert fur 12 Traktoren
Have you ever heard a tractor orchestra? In this unusual concert, the tractor brands «Famulus», «Pionier», «Zetor» and «Belarus» are both the muses and the stars. Their engines produce a unique rhythmic piston beat. Sven-Åke Johansson has composed a…
Filme II
Different films around the work from musician and artist Sven-Ake Johansson. 'Ludwigs Besen', a portrait by Rudi Ewals (1994). 'Telefonbuchstück für zwei gelbe Seiten' (2010). 'Gesamtkatalog D' (2005 - 2008). 'Solostück für Konzertbecken' (2010). '…
Adventmusik at Kippenbergers Buro (1978)
From the archives of Sven-Ake Johansson artist and musician, original recordings from 1978, five tracks centered around voice and accordion, recorded in the studios of artist Martin Kippenberger in 1978. Historical!
The 80's Selected Concerts
'Rimski' with Mats Gustafsson, tenorsax, sopranino. Wolfgang Fuchs, bass clarinet, sopranino. Sven-Ake Johansson, drums vocal. Recorded by Christian Fnghaus, (Audionauten) Berlin 6.9.1990. 'Erkelenzdamm' with Richard Teitelbaum, piano, electronics, a…
More compositions
KNM Berlin, Ensemble Zwischentöne, Eberhard Blum, Agnieszka Dziubak, Gunnhildur Einarsdottir, Sven-ke Johansson, a.o. Rec.1992 - 2013. 'Italienische Vekehrsverstndigung' (1983) for seven woodwindplayers woodwind ensemble, conducted by SJ,recorded Bal…
Harding greens. Symphonie fur Kartonagen
22 cardboard boxes in various sized bowed by 22 players with bowing technique that produce a new, almost silent sound in all imaginable nuances.
World premiere with the Echtzeitmusikensemble, conducted by Titus Engel with: Alexandre Babel, Burkhard B…
Fur Paul Klee
For Sven-Ake Johansson, the capricious and mercurial character of Paul Klee's texts is not a flaw, but a quality in its own right. His thirteen settings capture precisely this quality of the texts. Johansson's clear diction, his distinct, almost e…
Filme I
MM schumend. Wepa. Wirbel und einzelene Schlge für kleine Trommel. Ertrumtes Konzert. 34 Photos - Solo Performance 1986. SÂÂÂÂJ is someone, who, austere and prosaic, but with subliminal passion pays attention to the \'things\': in particular the la…
Die Harke Und Der Spaten - About The Love Life Of The Garden Too
Sven-ke Johansson : accordion, vocals. Axel Dörner : trumpet. Mats Gustafsson : saxophone. Per-ke Holmlander : tuba, trombone. Sten Sandell : piano. Matthias Bauer : double bass. Raymond Strid : percussion. Die Harke und Der Spaten [The Rake an…
Field Recordings 1969/70
Field recordings made at Mariental-Dorf (Germany) 1970, Göteborg 1970 (Sweden), Wolfsburg 1969 (Germany) Sonnenberg, Harz 1970 (Germany) with a Uher mono recorder and a microphone Sennheiser MD 421 N
Mariental tapes
Norbert Eisbrenner, electric guitar. Conrad Schnitzler, analog synth. Sven-Ake Johansson, percussion. Incredible recording from 1970!
Der Kreis des Gegenstandes
Axel Dörner, trumpet. Werner Dafeldecker, doublebass. Sven-Ake Johansson, drums. Recorded in May 2010 in Gothenburg by Bengt Pettersson and Bertil Karlsson.
Berlin Symphonie MND 1968 - 72
Legendary recordings by Johansson and friends, precursor of today´s minimalistic impro. Includes 30 minutes solo by sax player Frippe Nordström. CD I recorded at Club Litfass, Berlin, 1968; CD 2, track 1 recorded at SR, Stockholm, 1970; CD 2, tracks …
Cymbals In The Night
Heavy solo release from deep as Marianas Trench Swedish drummer Sven-Ake Johansson. Johansson is primarily known in the US as the drummer on the two hugely influential Brotzmann recordings: For Adolphe Sax and Machine Gun. However, the Berlin-base…
La Vase-Slikke
Sven-Ake Johansson (percussion, and crackle box on one track) and Christine Shenaoui (saxophone) recorded in Berlin 2009.
Grand Electronic Suite
Recorded at the Roundhouse 1972, during the ICES Festival."For this show we rehearsed a week in a small village in the south of Holland. The repertoire of the first part was a kind of "frozen improvisation". We made some written plans abo…
Ol’ man rebop ensemble
Henrik Walsdorff (saxophone). Matthias Bauer (bass). Axel Dörner (trumpet). Uli Gumpert (piano). Sven-Ake johansson (drums). Recorded on June 1998 in Berlin.