Mats Gustafsson
Mats Gustafsson, born in Umeå in 1964, is a Swedish saxophonist, improviser and composer whose baritone and tenor playing has the force of a rock band. He leads or co-leads The Thing, Fire!, Gush, Sonore, Swedish Azz and the NU Ensemble, has played in Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet and Barry Guy's New Orchestra, and has worked with Sonic Youth, Merzbow, Jim O'Rourke, Otomo Yoshihide, Yoshimi and Ken Vandermark. Eighteen hundred concerts and more than two hundred records across Europe, Australia, Africa, the Americas and Asia have made him one of the busiest figures in free music, and a collector and advocate of its history through his writing, his label work and the Discaholic Corner website, where he trades records and interviews his heroes.
Mats Gustafsson, born in Umeå in 1964, is a Swedish saxophonist, improviser and composer whose baritone and tenor playing has the force of a rock band. He leads or co-leads The Thing, Fire!, Gush, Sonore, Swedish Azz and the NU Ensemble, has played in Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet and Barry Guy's New Orchestra, and has worked with Sonic Youth, Merzbow, Jim O'Rourke, Otomo Yoshihide, Yoshimi and Ken Vandermark. Eighteen hundred concerts and more than two hundred records across Europe, Australia, Africa, the Americas and Asia have made him one of the busiest figures in free music, and a collector and advocate of its history through his writing, his label work and the Discaholic Corner website, where he trades records and interviews his heroes.
Member of: DUX Orchestra
Baro 101
Collaborations like this one are a dime a dozen in the world of free improv / free jazz, but few have the delightful energy of Baro 101, an impromptu session in a hotel room by Norwegian drummer extraordinaire Paal Nilssen-Love, Swedish sax legend Mats Gustafsson and Ethiopian krar virtuoso Mesele Asmamaw. Nilssen-Love and Gustafsson were in Addis Ababa with Dutch post-rock-turned-avant-garde outfit The Ex, and were so enamoured with the sounds they encountered in the East African country that t…
It is all about
Mats Gustafsson : Saxophone [BarItone, Slide], Flute [Fluteophone]. Recorded live January 22, 2006, at Potlatch Festival, Oranssi, Helsinki Finland. Format : Vinyl, LP, LimIted EdItion. Released date :15 Nov 2007. Genre : Jazz. Style : Free Improvisation. CredIts : Artwork by Matias Pöschl. Mastered by Teemu Korpip. Producer : Olof Madsen. Recorded by Jari Suominen.
With Records
Otomo Yoshihide (turntable), Ozeki Mikito (kirie), Mats Gustafsson (baritone saxophone from Mats Gustafsson's solo LP 'It Is All About' on Tyyfus label). Mastered by Jun Numata. Released to commemorate the exhibition Ensembles '09: With Records at Gallery 45-8, Tokyo, October 11-November 8, 2009. No cover, limited 800 copies, serial numbers. Otomo Yoshihide (turntables), Ozeki Mikito (cutout art) and Mats Gustafsson (baritone sax).
Duo box
Our Swedish hero of sublime saxophones, Mats Gustafsson, performs in three different duo constellations, spanning over three 7″ singles, all collected in a limited 99 copies box of wonder, on Kning Disk KD003-005. Mats collaborates with Fred Lonberg-Holm, Luca Tommaso-Mai and Leif Elggren, resulting in both electric, eclectic and sensational sounds; spanning over one 7″ single per collaboration. Two of the three singles has been previously released on Kning Disk in limited editions. The third co…
Cosmic Debris V. 4
2008 release ** CD re-issue of the fourth volume in the ongoing "Cosmic Debris" series of split ART-LP releases set up by the Opalio brothers, aka My Cat Is An Alien (MCIAA), on their own Opax Records. This time the space improv duo from Torino, Italy, shares one side of the vinyl with Swedish radical saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, whose twenty-year career boasts collaborations that range widely over the contemporary improvised music world, from masters of the free jazz such as Peter Brotzmann, De…
Mats G Plays Albert A
99 copies only one-sided LP black vinyl, with insert. Mats Gustafsson -- baritone sax, music box rec, mixed and mastered June 16, 2009 by Ola Glans, Svinaberga, Sweden. After his rendition of Duke Ellington pieces, the series continue with Mats unique versions/visions of classic Ayler's tunes like 'Our Prayer' and 'Angels/Spirits.' Here he plays music box and baritone sax; the sound is full and warm. Recorded in June 2009. 'These two albums on yr label are two of the ones I m most pleased with e…
The vilnius explosion solo
baritone and slide saxophones, alto fluteophone. Limited edition High Quality 45 rpm. Limited Edition of 500 records. Recorded February 9th 2008 at Vilniaus Ma asis Teatras. Cover's paintings by Edward Jarvis.
Sinners, rather than saints
Barry Guy (contrabass) solo-duo with Mats Gustafsson (alto fluteophone and baritone saxophone). An outstanding performance by two gross masters of European free improvisation Barry Guy and Mats Gustafsson recorded live in January 2009 at St. Catherine's Church, Vilnius. This recording is a document of ultimate beauty and imagination, enlightenment and eternity.
Splatter
The duo is back with a mini album, 4 tracks and 20 minutes of music recorded live when Smalltown celebrated its 10 year anniversary in Oslo in February 2004. As with their debut album Gustafsson & Nilssen-Love`s punkrock roots are highly visible & the musical expression is an explosion of energy created by breath & muscles. ÒSplatterÓ is raw power that brings to mind the the wild & beautiful days of Albert Ayler and Peter Brotzmann`s Machine Gun session.
The Fat Is Gone
Recorded live at Molde International Jazz Festival in 2006. The meeting between the godfather of free-jazz & the innovators of the modern free-jazz scene in Scandinavia, Mats Gustafsson & Paal Nilssen-Love, resulted in this mastodon of an album. This is the European free-jazz underground at its best. A devastating, blasting, raw, ferocious sonic assault on all senses. And beautiful, painfully beautiful.
For Ake Hodell
Limited edition 330. Total time: aprox. 9 min. Side A. Lasse Marhaug 'So-so Green Tea With Buddha' (for Ake Hodell). Lasse Marhaug: turntable, guitars and location recordings. Side B. Mats Gustafsson: 'Jag Vill Lyda Order' (for Ake Hodell). Mats Gustafsson: slide sax and live electronics. This vinyl only release is inspired by Swedish avant-garde artist Ake Hodell and features the music of two giants of contemporary experimantal music : free-jazz, improv saxophone player Mats Gustafsson and nois…
Cosmic Debris, Vol.IV
Fourth volume in the ongoing "Cosmic Debris" series of split ART-LP releases set up by the Opalio brothers, aka MY CAT IS AN ALIEN (MCIAA), on their own Opax Records. This time the space improv duo from Torino, Italy, shares one side of the vinyl with Swedish radical saxophonist MATS GUSTAFSSON, whose twenty-year career boasts collaborations that range widely over the contemporary improvised music world, from masters of the free jazz such as Peter Brotzmann, Derek Bailey, Joe McPhee, to famous m…
The Vilnius Explosion
This new label start with a record 'The Vilnius Explosion' by great Swedish multi-instrumentalist Mats Gustafsson (baritone and slide saxophones, alto fluteophone), who gave a memorable performance on 9th February 2008 together with the leading contemporary Lithuanian jazz musicians - Liudas Mockunas (soprano, tenor and baritone sax), Eugenijus Kanevicius (bass), Marijus Aleksa (drums) and Arkadijus Gotesmanas (drums).
Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth
Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth is an album by Sonic Youth with Mats Gustafsson and Merzbow. It is the eighth release in the SYR series. It was released on July 28, 2008. It will not be released on vinyl. The album is recorded the first July 2005 on the Roskilde Festival. The album title is in Danish and means "Other sides of Sonic Youth".
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.