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Gush (Gustafsson / Sandell / Strid) + Guests: Gush 30 - Krakow 2018 [3 CD BOX SET] (Not Two)

The Gush trio — Mats Gustafsson on reeds and flute, Sten Sandell on piano, and Raymond Strid on drums — celebrate 30 years since their original formation, in extraordinary concerts at Alchemia and Manggha Hall in Krakow, joined by guests in three dynamic configurations — two sextets and a septet — for an unforgettable series of performances of irrepressible collective improvisation.
 

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Mats Gustafsson-reeds, flute

Sten Sandell-piano

Raymond Strid-drums

Sofia Jernberg-voice

Anders Nyqvist-trumpets

Philipp Wachsmann-violin

Christine Abdelnour-alto saxophone

Peter Soderberg-lute, guitar

Jorgen Adolfsson-reeds

Sven Ake Johansson-voice


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UPC: 5906395187805

Label: Not Two
Catalog ID: mw1020
Squidco Product Code: 35526

Format: 3 CDs
Condition: New
Released: 2023
Country: Poland
CD 1 recorded at Alchemia, in Krakow, Poland, on November 26th, 2018, by Rafal Drewniany.

CD 2 recorded at Alchemia, in Krakow, Poland, on November 27th, 2018, by Rafal Drewniany.

CD 3 recorded at Manggha Hall, in Krakow, Poland, on November 28th, 2018, by Rafal Drewniany.

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"One of the most pleasant and unexpected moments happened across our dangerous sonic territories was the phoenix's rebirth off her ashes represented by the Gush comeback, after a more than 25 years hiatus. A series of live recordings (Afro Blue 1998, Tampere 1996) has seen back the light of the day and what was a guessing about a real reunion of the group is now a certainty: Gush is back and a full cylinders gigs schedule proves it without any doubts.

For the ones still unaware, Gush is a trio, one of the protean incarnations of the irrepressible Swedish genius Mats Gustaffson (here accompanied by two real top notch musicians, Sten Sandell on piano and Raymond Strid on drums), that, as said, called it a day in 1998, before deciding, for the sake of our immense pleasure, to dust off the spurs and ride the horse back. Should you be interested (we definitely can't figure out the opposite...) in reading the umpteenth chapter of the astonishing Mats' musical adventures, a handy, gorgeous chance is grabbing the bonanza of a 3 CD set, recorded live in Krakow (Alchemia Club, 26-27 November 2018, Manga 28 November 2018), celebrating the band's 30th anniversary.

The liner notes focusing on "lyricism, percussive rhythm" and a "seamless convergence of sounds, culminating in an organic, harmonious unity", touching absolutely the point: we enjoy long radius flows of sounds interspersed with out of the blue edgy peaks, combined with smooth moments to take a breath; blinding, flashing lights and pitch darkness, concrete musique tones, delivering the marvelous result of physical and intellectual sheer pleasure, trademark of Mr. Gustafsson, whatever the line-up or the shape of his projects. Just a foot note. During a long chat with him some months ago, while talking about Gush, Mats defined it (laughing...) as his "modal music" mood and even though we weren't honestly able to picture such a nuance, that's a point that certainly deserved to be shared with the readers. Modal or not, the roster of players sharing the duties with the trio surely represent not a simple musical back-up band but rather a perfectly assembled team, co-protagonists actors for the final result of this beautiful work and we feel mandatory to shine a light on them. We have: Sonja Jernberg, vocal, long time partner in crime with Mats in The End; Anders Nyqvist, trumpets, from the Klangforum Wien ensemble; Philipp Wachsmann, violin, from, among others, Evan Parker Octet, King Ubu Orchestru, Keith Tippet's Ark, London Improvisers Orchestra, London Jazz Composers Orchestra; Christine Abdelnour, alto sax, Split Second and Magda Mayas' Filament in her resume; Jorgen Adolfsson, reeds, who lent his blow to Archimedes Badkar, Bitter Funeral Beer Band, Galento Sound Service; Peter Sodeberg, lute and guitar, who played along with Christer Bothen and Frim Storband; Sven-Ake Johansson, voice, legendary composer, poet, visual artist who worked with the likes of Kowald, Brotzmann, Schlippenbach, Carl and Reichel."-Ferruccio Martinotti


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Artist Biographies

"Born 1964 in Umeå, Northern Sweden.Saxplayer, improviser and composer. Solo artist and international tours and projects with a.o. Sonic Youth, Merzbow, Jim O´Rourke, Barry Guy, Otomo Yoshihide, Yoshimi, Ken Vandermark and in working groups The Thing, FIRE!, Gush, Boots Brown, Swedish Azz and Fake (the facts). Large ensemble work with Barry Guy New Orchestra,FIRE! Orchestra and the NU - ensemble.over 1800 concerts and over 200 record productions in Europe, Australia, Africa, North & South America and Asia.Collaborations with contemporary dance, theater, art, poetry as well as projects with noise, electronica, contemporary rock and free jazz.Discaholic - running the discaholic corner website.Producer of international festivals and concert tours as well as work with own record labels Slottet, OlofBright Editions and Blue Tower Records."-Mats Gustafsson Website (http://matsgus.com/archives/category/bio)
2/5/2025

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"Composer / musician / producer - piano, organ, voice, electronics,Sound/Text/Image Real-Time Composer, Doctor of Philosophy In Fine Arts in Musical Performance and Interpretation, University of Gothenburg, 2013

Cooperation with musicians/composers including Emil Strandberg, Paal Nilssen-Love, Sverrir Gudjonsson, Johan Berthling, Evan Parker, Sven-Åke Johansson, Chris Cutler, Mats Persson, Sofia Jernberg, Carl-Axel Dominique, Mats Gustafsson, Nina de Heney and Raymond Strid. Music Inside the Language was winner of Contemporary Sound in 2011 of the Journal Contemporary Music. Music and visual arts, including Bo Samuelsson, Katarina Eismann, Inger Arvidsson. Music and dance, including Jukka Korpi, Ingrid Olterman, Bo Arenander, Anne Külper. Music and Drama including Fredrik Nyberg, Magnus Florin, Magnus Jacobsson, Willy Kyrklund, Karl Dunér, Rolf Skoglund, Peter Oskarson, Stina Ekblad and Jörgen Gassilewski.

Sten Sandell was awarded the Royal Academy of Music's Jazz Award in 2012 with the motivation: "The pianist Sten Sandell is one of Swedish improvised music's most brilliant, captivating and independent voices. His musical activities are characterized by a strong artistic integrity, and he has with great consistency developed a characteristic aesthetic attitude that inspires countless musicians. " "

-Sten Sandell Website (http://stensandell.com/cv.php?l=e)
2/5/2025

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"Raymond Strid (born 1956 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish drummer in the genre of free jazz and the new European improvised music.When Strid picked up drumming, he was inspired by musicians like Han Bennink, Paul Lytton, and Tony Oxley. He started his musical career relatively late. His debut concert was in September 1977, after first playing with a variety of local bands in Stockholm. In 1988 he founded the 'GUSH' trio together with saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and the pianist Sten Sandell. Since that time Strid has played in a series of bands and projects, such as in the trio Guy/Gustafsson/Strid, Marilyn Crispell/Anders Jormin/Raymond Strid and the Free Jazz trio LSB with Fredrik Ljungkvist and Johan Berthling. In 2000 he initiated 'The Electrics' with Axel Dörner, Sture Ericson and Ingebrigt Flaten. The same year Strid joined the Barry Guy New Orchestra. Strid played at numerous festivals of free improvisation in Europe and North America. He also teaches in musical improvisation."-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Strid)
2/5/2025

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"Sofia Jernberg (born 5 July 1983, Ethiopia) is a Swedish experimental singer and composer.

Between 2002 and 2004, Jernberg studied jazz at Fridhems Folk High School. Later she studied for Per Mårtensson and Henrik Strindberg at The Gotland School of Music Composition. In 2008, she received the Royal Swedish Academy of Music's jazz award.

Jernberg is the leader (together with the pianist Cecilia Persson) of the chamber jazz group Paavo. The group received the "jazz group of the year" award from Swedish Radio.

Jernberg is also working on the contemporary classical music scene, in which she serves as both singer and composer. As a singer she has premiered pieces by composers such as Lars Bröndum. She was a soloist with Norrbotten NEO when they performed Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire. Jernberg has composed for several established ensembles such as Duo ego and Norrbotten NEO."

-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Jernberg)
2/5/2025

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"Anders Nyqvist was born in Sweden in 1977 and started playing the trumpet at the age of 10. After graduating from school in his hometown of Trollhättan, he received a scholarship to the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. There, he studied both trumpet and voice, but soon decided on the trumpet as the instrument of his choice.

After three years in Hong Kong, he was awarded a scholarship to continue his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

In 2004 he became a member of Klangforum Wien.

Collaborating with composers, creating new sounds, contributing his experience and participating in the creative process are essential parts of making music for Anders Nyqvist. He performs internationally both as a soloist and as a chamber musician at festivals and concerts. As a soloist, he has performed with ensembles and orchestras such as the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, and Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich.

Since 2009, he has taught trumpet for the Performance Practice in Contemporary Music degree program, at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz; and from 2011 also at the University of Music in Vienna. He also regularly conducts master classes in Europe and Asia.

Numerous pieces have been written especially for him by composers such as Matthias Pintscher, Bernhard Gander, Bernhard Lang, Pierluigi Billone, Nina Šenk, and Roland Freisitzer.

Anders Nyqvist has also participated in a great number of CD, DVD and television productions."

-Klangforum Wien (https://en.klangforum.at/ensemble/anders-nyqvist)
2/5/2025

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"Philipp Wachsmann. Born Uganda, 1944; violin, viola and electronics.

In the CD booklet to Gushwachs, John Corbett notes that Phillip Wachsmann came to free improvisation from a predominantly classical background, particularly via the contemporary experiments of "indeterminacy, graphic and prose-based scores, conceptualism and electroacoustics, listening to Webern, Partch, Ives, Berio and Varèse, reading 'Die Reihe' and interrogating the rhythmic, harmonic and melodic preoccupations of Western art music. Starting in 1969, Wachsmann was a member of Yggdrasil, an ensemble performing works by Cage, Cardew, Feldman, Ashley and others and in this group he used contact mikes on the violin and made his own electronic instruments, ring modulators and routing devices. Ironically, his studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris (1969-1970) pushed him hard in the direction of free music. He recalls: 'Despite her neoclassical orientation, her insistence that composition is about the imagination of performance and its realisation, the live moment, and her stunning ability to make this happen was a powerful influence on me, steering towards 'performance' and therefore 'improvisation'.'"

Wachsmann moved from Yggdrasil to Chamberpot - recorded on Bead 2 - and shortly thereafter appeared on Tony Oxley's influential February papers, forward looking in the virtual 'industrial' orientation of some of the tracks, years before this became an accepted genre; the two musicians have continued to work together, in various groupings but notably in the percussionist's Celebration Orchestra. Philipp Wachsmann has also performed and/or recorded with: Derek Bailey's Company, e.g. on the recording Epiphanies; Georg Graewe; Barry Guy; Iskra 1903; King Übü Orchestrü; London Jazz Composers' Orchestra; Evan Parker, particularly as part of the Evan Parker Electronic Project; Quintet Moderne; Fred Van Hove's ML DD 4; Rüdiger Carl's COWWS (now CPWWS) Quintet; and Lines, with Martin Blume, Jim Denley, Axel Dörner and Marcio Mattos. He also plays as a solo musician.

Phillip Wachsmann also administers Bead Records."

-EFI: European Free Improv (http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/mwachs.html)
2/5/2025

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"Born in 1978, Christine lives in France but is of Lebanese origin. After discovering improvised music in 1997 she began a process of self-taught study and sound experimentation using the alto saxophone.

She has developed a unique personal language, producing sounds that are close to those of electroacoustic music but on a purely acoustic instrument.

She approaches sound as a malleable material, rich in concrete textures which combine breath, silence and countless acoustic distortions. She has developed extended techniques and complex patterns of sound production, exploring the microtonal aspects of the saxophone and its high-pitched tones. She employs subtle tonguing techniques, unpitched breaths, spittle-flecked growls, biting, slicing notes and breathy echoing sounds from the bell of her horn. Far from any narrative effects, her music addresses the relation between listening and concepts of perception, time and space.

Solo Artist and involved in international tours with Andy Moor, Magda Mayas, Pascal Battus, Andrea Neumann, Bonnie Jones, Raymond Strid, Sven- Ake Johansson, Chris Corsano, Mazen Kerbaj and many more. She has released more than ten cds and has collaborated with visual art, dance, literature, poetry, as well as projects with noise, electronics, rock or free jazz."

-Christine Abdelnour Website (https://christineabdelnoursehnaoui.jimdo.com/)
2/5/2025

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Peter Söderberg, born in Stockholm, 1957, is a classical lute player. He studied at the Royal College of Music from 1979 to 1985, and then at the Schola Cantorurn Basiliensis from 1986 to 1988 for Hopkinson Smith, amongst others. He is known for the groups Christer Bothén Trio, Frim Storband, Low Dynamic Orchestra, and Så Vidare.

-Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/artist/411412-Peter-S%C3%B6derberg)
2/5/2025

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Jörgen Adolfsson is a Swedish player of reed instruments in the band Archimedes Badkar. He is known for the groups Archimedes Badkar, Bitter Funeral Beer Band, Frim Storband, Galento Sound Service, Iskra, Karl Brothers, NikAdo Duo, No School, Råttan Frittz, Vargavinter.

-Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/artist/411421-J%C3%B6rgen-Adolfsson)
2/5/2025

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"Sven-Åke Johansson born in Mariestad (Sweden). Composer and musician, poet and visual artist, writer and initiator of several music and performance art productions among:" Die Harke und der Spaten", "...über Ursache und Wirkung der Meinungsverschiedenheiten beim Turmbau zu Babel" (Hebbel Theater Berlin, 1994), "Harding Greens - Symphony for Cardboard Packaging" (Sophiensaele Berlin 2010), "Irving Berlin in Berlin" (2013), exibitions, publications of books, last "In St. Wendel am Schlossplatz..." (Texte, 2013), LP, CD, and DVD. Major stylistic forerunner within improvisational music. In the 60s, he developed a European form of freejazz. 1969 establishing M.N.D. (Moderne Nordeuropäische Dorfmusik) with Eisbrenner and Goetz, same year its first vinyl production, "Westberliner Stadtmusik". Extended in the 1970s the drumset with performance practices for carboard, bassbow and foamrubber a.o. Cooperation with visual and performing artists, worldwide. Engagement as an actor in the Burgtheater Vienna, virtuosic drummer, performs also as a singer and narrator. Compositions a.o.: "Seewetter 69" (Radioplay commissioned by Deutschlandradio 2001), "Polis, Wachs und Pomade" (chamber piece for strings, wind instruments and voice, Donaueschinger Musiktage 2001) "MM schäumend"- Overture for Handheld Fire Extinguishers (Akademie der Künste, Berlin 2003), "Concert for 12 tractors", (1996), "Stereo für 8", (Berlin 2005), "Die neue Zeit ist pausenlos" (Berlin 2010). Runs the label SÅJ-CD/DVD Records, Participant in the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art 2010. Wears suits by Sali Saliu."

-Sven Ake Johansson Website (http://www.sven-akejohansson.com/en/biography/)
2/5/2025

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Track Listing:



CD1



1. A Lost Driver. Walking In The Fields 15:26

2. Reality Speaks. Away 10:59

3. From Things. And Sounds. Repeat 9:43

4. Duality Of One 7:33

5. From Sounds. And Things 15:42

6. Selected. Repeat 2:57

CD2



1. To Melt 13:12

2. ...Or Cast Part 1 6:17

3. ...Or Cast Part 2 2:44

4. ...Or Cast Part 3 4:09

5. ...A Sound 19:37

CD3



1. Gheu 14:34

2. Pole Position Krakow 13:58

3. Skogaholmsdaren som dom aldrig frickfatt pa 3:04

4. Ajax 3:24

5. The Air Of Hammers, Breath And Skin 6:47

6. Gush before Gush 6:53

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The debut release from NY bassist Max Johnson's new trio with Neta Ranaan on tenor saxophone and Eliza Salem on drums, featuring five Johnson compositions that explore the post-bop tradition, from the hard-driving "Barbarous Jape" to the sweeping ballad "Tiny Beautiful," plus an elegy originally written for mandolinist Matt Flinner"s trio, and our clear favorite, "Chestnut Squid"!



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