Joel Grip

Joel Grip is a Swedish double bassist, improviser, filmmaker and producer. He founded the label Umlaut Records, which supports musicians in organising their work collectively, and has been one of the organisers of the Hagenfesten festival in Dala-Floda, Sweden. He plays double bass in [Ahmed], the quartet with Pat Thomas, Seymour Wright and Antonin Gerbal that reworks the music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik. Grip has worked closely with the cellist Tristan Honsinger and the drummer Sven-Åke Johansson, and with the Mexican filmmaker Mauricio Hernández he founded the film company Umlicht.