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Gush: Norrk

Read "Norrk" reviewed by AAJ Staff


By Ken Waxman

After more than seventeen years together, the members of the Swedish-based Gush trio now operate as three interlocking parts of one perpetual motion machine. Occupied enough with other projects, the three players--reedist Mats Gustafsson, pianist Sten Sandell and drummer Raymond Strid--bring a complementary desire for melded invention when they unite, as they did in Norrköping in 2003, for this, the band's first-ever domestic release in North America.

Fully in command of all elements of its instruments, the ...

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Album Review

Gush: Norrk

Read "Norrk" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Sound is a kaleidoscope of shapes. Here, it is formed by a trio that includes Mats Gustafsson, a multi-instrumentalist who has wet his lips in the company of Peter Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark, and John Corbett. Is it any surprise, then, that the music honks and hollers, spewing a volcanic steam of notes? But even as that happens, it relaxes into the calm of aftermath, soft shades that encompass interludes on the piano, a conversation with the drums, and moments of ...

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Norrk

Atavistic Records
2006

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Norrk

Atavistic Records
2005

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