★Olof Bright
24 Pictures At An Exhibition
Long out of print, very few copies available: the sound installation “24 Pictures at an Exhibition” has resulted in three different pieces. The first one comes close to the installation as presented in the museum – the technical term “oil on canvas/olja på duk” being one of the mostly repeated; the other two take us further from the original work without leaving the basis, i.e. the art collection of Ystad Art Museum. The paintings and the informative texts returned to their places in the rooms o…
Les Femmes Savantes
The Berlin based group Les Femmes Savantes, named after the famous play by Molière, Learned Ladies. This music is just as proud and individual, being a success and almost a myth in the improvised world, combining many styles of music. Les Femmes Savantes are Hanna Hartman, electronics, little objects, Andrea Neumann, inner piano, Sabine Ercklentz, trumpet, Ute Wasserman, voice, Ana Maria Rodriguez, electronics, each one of them an individual master. Together they let focus stay on either the gro…
as : is
It was recorded in Bruxelles 2011, has been mixed and mastered by Sabine Ercklentz. A trio recording of forceful fragility, new sounds mixing, acoustic instruments meeting electronics. Random sounds taken care of. Creating 7 different pieces, each one of them representing its own personality. It is very dense and lo-fi. Christine Abdelnour has been one of the front figures in the last years with her new sounds on saxophone. Andrea Neumann is one of the original creators of the Berlin Scene no fu…
Große Gartenbauausstellung
Sven-Ake Johansson, Andrea Neumann and Axel Dörner formed the trio Barcelona Series in the end of the 90's. Their music was utterly important for the development of the new improscene, the new ways of improvising by using your instruments more as acoustic bodies than traditional instruments. Johansson had since the 70's been experimenting with a music with less gestures but anyhow keeping the emotional pressure. Both Dörner and Neumann were pioneers in their ways of playing their instrume…
Soundtrack to the film: A nice old lady (1959)
'Carl Fredrik Reuterswrd is an artist known for his dadaistic works and Ulf Linde is not only an art professor, he was one of the leading Swedish jazzmen in the early 50s. Usually playing vibraharp. But together with Carl Fredrik on drums they played in small clubs for a while in the late 50s a kind of jazz that is free jazz before it was named that. It is an utterly rare example of free European jazz. Linde plays piano and Reuterswrd drums. The session took place in somebody«s home, the recordi…
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 2-4 recorded at Club 7, Oslo, 1972.Sven-Åke Johansson, drums, voice; Norbert Eisbrenner, guitar, alto saxophone, voice; Bengt Nordstöm, tenor saxophone (CD2 track 1); Werner Götz bass (CD 1, CD2 track 1); Peter Dyck, cello (CD2 tracks 2-4).
Teeming
'Magda MAYAS and Christine ABDELNOUR SEHNAOUI both play acoustic music that is diametral, a space they conquered by changing the traditional ways of their instruments: modern alchemy. Together they express a strong physical experience. MAYAS is a master of sparse fragments of motion and SEHNAOUI works in a flux of changing sounds. The multiple layers of their performance create a shivering moment of existence, which reminds me of the words of the Danish artist Malene Bach: 'Art finds its own re…
Up and down the lion-revised
“The only existing recording by this legendary 1979 trio. Alexander von Schlippenbach and Sven-Åke Johansson was a working duo, when Peter Brötzmann joined them for a trio tour in Sweden in the fall of 1979. They were all three part of the strong growth of the free improvised music and free jazz in Europe. In 1979, though, the era of revolutions was already history. They had all played in groups that made any retreat impossible; not to mention their solo works. The music of the trio 1979 could r…
Crochet
Cello and voice. Lene Grenager (1969) is a cellist and composer from Norway, internationally well known from the ensembles Spunk and Lemur. Swedish singer and composer Sofia Jernberg (1983) is mainly a soloist, but she also works with different gropups, The New Song, Paavo, Yun Kan 10. CD in a yellow cover with text by Thomas Millroth.
Radio Silence No More
Birgit Ulher, trumpet and radio. Recorded in Ulher's apartment July - August 2007. Final Mix by Hrólfur Vagnsson. Graphic form Karin Almlöf. Produced by Olof Bright and Birgit Ulher.
Maja af Svea
Sound is an essential aspect of Maja Spasova's work, but not the only one, because she uses so many different matters. But she does not create aesthetic objects. Her art is more a way of producing relations and processes. Thomas Millroth. Maja af Svea : The Sound Art of Maja Spasova. Born 1959. Studies at The ArtAcademy in Sofia 1979-84 and guest student at The Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm 1986. CD1 with pieces from Maja Spasova. CD2 with Maja Spasova's remixes remixed by Hans Appelqvist, M…
Solo
Waves of polytonal freedom and poetic beauty... lines of noise clusters and complex patterns... She is sculpting her sounds around a microtonal hub, transforming slow melodies into free improvised structures and drama (...) a new language - with a totally new concept on how to produce sounds and noises from an acoustic instrument (...) making electronic music on acoustic instrument..." Mats Gustaffson