Barry Guy / Mats Gustafsson / Raymond Strid
You Forget to Answer
Maya Recordings
“"... Together their Maya date is a whirlwind of activity; sounds rattle and moan in a fog of urgent details. Their lightning-quick attacks provoke a firestorm of spontaneous devlopment and continual realignment. The excitement is palpable." —Art Lange”
Mats Gustaffson / Pierre Bastien
Poschslides / Among The Skulls
Emphase Records
“"The swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, perhaps more than any other musician in his field, epitomizes a hard percussive sound. What he does goes way beyond freejazz; he has played with the likes of Peter Brötzmann, Sonic Youth, Merzbow, Jim O'Rourke, Otomo Yoshihide and many more. He is an uncompromising improviser who never "merely" operates his instrument, be it soprano, tenor or alto-saxophon. His playing always involves an extremely physical use of the whole body. Through Gustafsson the saxophone seems to breath, sigh, scream and dribble. For the ONE-7inch series this exceptional saxophonist has allowed the slide-sax to lead a life of its own. This unusual instrument works in a similar way to a slide whistle and is something of a curiosity in the world or saxophones. The slide-saxophone was invented in the early twentieth century and was only ever produced by a few manufacturers, notably Swanee and Reiffel & Husted."”
Boots Brown
Boots Brown
Slottet
“Swedish band “Boots Brown” consists of some of the country’s key jazz figures : Mats Gustafsson on sax, Magnus Broo on trumpet, David Stackenäs on guitar, Johan Bertling on bass, accompanied by Tomas Hallonsten on organ on one track. When I heard their debut record for the first time, I was a little taken aback by the apparent emptiness, the lack of melodic evolution and structure. To its immediate strength, it had an immediacy, intimacy and fragility which were compelling. The music is pointillistic, with specks of sound reacting to one another, like random dots of paint splashed on a canvas, meaningless by themselves, but once you see them in the overall frame, with some distance, and familiarization, an overall picture emerges. More experimental jazz than free jazz, with repeated listens, the album’s musical vision and creative use of sound texture and coordinated free interplay become more and more appealing. In sum, a very open exercise, very gentle, at moments sad, at moments joyful. A rare treat." -David Stackenas”
The Bureau of Atomic Tourism
Eden
Rat Records / Werkplaats Walter
“The caustic blast that opens Eden says it all: The Bureau Of Atomic Tourism is back. It has been four years since Hapax Legomena, but the sextet sounds as inspired and sharp as ever, leaving no doubts about their status as a considerable force in avant-garde jazz.”
Mark Nauseef
All In All In All
Relative Pitch Records
“"All in All in All, on Relative Pitch is a rich and somewhat beguiling recording by the expansively thinking percussionist Mark Nauseef. The album, recorded in 2001 in Cologne, Germany, is a tremendous soundscape that focuses on the micro: dings of the glockenspiel, muted thud of prepared piano, hiss of electronics, and scrapes of percussion, played in service to the macro musical arch." -Paul Acquaro, Free Jazz Blog”
Jaap Blonk
111 Recipes
Kontrans
““111 Recipes” contains reprints of the 11 “Secret Recipes”, followed by the 100 drawings I made for the above-mentioned book. All of the drawings contain scribbles in my personal script, which started out with the International Phonetic Alphabet and over the years developed into a no-longer-functional (‘secret’) notation system." — Jaap Blonk, February 2019”
