DUX Orchestra
Members: Dave Sewelson, Mats Gustafsson, Susie Ibarra, Will Connell Jr., Dave Hofstra, Walter Perkins, JC Morrison
Home Cookin'
A series of duets between Ibarra (drummer for David Ware, William Parker's In Order to Survive, etc) and Tsahar (previous recordings on Eremite, Silkheart). Consists of home recordings and material from the Knitting Factory 2/28/98. Ibarra on drums, thumb piano, Balafon, Kulintang, vibes, Djembe, Tympani, Toy Gamelan, clay whistle, etc. Tsahar on saxophone, violin, talking drum, bass clarinet, flute, bells, bamboo recorder.
Phonometak Series #2
The first chapter of this vinyl series opened with Zu duelling with Iceburn, the follow up is a face to face that puts Mats Gustafsson in front of Paolo Angeli. Talking about the swedish saxophonist (here he plays also alto fluteophone) what should I add you don't know already?...personally I've loved his combined effort together with “Rome's only” Zu (withTakemure more then ever in full blossoming), by the way what we have here is an acoustic improvised performance not so far from many releases…
Hidros One
2025 stock A composed improvisation, or possibly the other way around – this is one way of describing the music played by Mats Gustafsson and the Nu Ensemble, a multinational group of improvisational musicians.
The saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, born in 1964, became interested in improvisational music at an early age, inspired by among others the German Peter Brötzmann and the Britt Evan Parker.
The Nu Ensemble was a loosely structured, irregularly convened radio and concert project built around …
Catapult
Gustafsson, for all his brash screeching, is a particularly accomplished player with an amazing ability to create snaps, crackles and pops on his baritone. He has lung power to spare but also can tone down the wildness and use understatement to great effect. On Catapult, Gustafsson confounds those listeners who know him as this generation’s Brötzmann. His solo playing (this may be one of only two solo baritone records ever recorded?) is actually gentle and intellectual. Nine themes make up the r…
Windows: The Music Of Steve Lacy
What a pleasant surprise! The Swedish multi-reed maestro, he of the coruscatingly wild fluteophone attacks, turns to the relatively calm and linear world of Steve Lacy and finds a very happy medium in this solo release. While he treats Lacy's deadpan and deceptively simple melodies with clear respect, he uses them as jumping off points for his own idiosyncratic deconstructions. On "Deadline," he navigates into a territory of ultra-soft percussive clicks and taps, creating a fascinating spatial f…
Apertura
Duets for harmonium and whateveraphone. These pieces are starkly out of character for both individuals, but no less excellent.
Critical Mass
A sequence of piano (and prepared piano) and saxophone (tenor & baritone) free improvisations recorded in Barcelona -- 8 duets and 2 solos. Recorded 7/30/04.