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Left Exit (Feat Michael Duch / Klaus Holm): Mr. K [VINYL] (Clean Feed)

This progressive/folk/jazz/improv/experimental/psych quartet from Norway covers a diverse set of approaches to improvisation, from textural, minimalistic and radically abstract, like something AMM would play, using graphic and written notation.
 

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Michael Duch-doubel bass

Klaus Holm-saxophone, clarinet

Karl Hjalmar Nyberg-saxophone

Andreas Skar Winther-drums, dtrings

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UPC: 5609063103465

Label: Clean Feed
Catalog ID: CF346LP
Squidco Product Code: 21684

Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2015
Country: Portugal
Packaging: LP
Recorded at Ora Studio in Trondheim, Norway in June 2014.
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Karl Hjalmar Nyberg is a Norwegian saxophonist and clarinetist, known for the groups Kalle, Kimchi Moccasin Tango, Left Exit, Mr K, Megalodon Collective, Pumkin.

-Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/artist/4612753-Karl-Hjalmar-Nyberg)
10/29/2025

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