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Anna Hogberg Attack: lena

Read "lena" reviewed by John Sharpe


It is a well known gambit to start an album with one of its strongest tracks. But it must have been a difficult choice for Swedish band leader and saxophonist Anna Högberg when programming her group Attack's second release. That she chose “Pappa Kom Hem," which opens with a sustained stentorian bellow from tenor saxophonist Elin Forkelid, leading to a cataclysmic free for all, announces that this is an uncompromising outfit. But the way the cut ends with the emergence ...

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Anna Högberg Attack: lena

Read "lena" reviewed by Samuel Stroup


There are moments of lena, the sophomore release from Swedish group Attack, which feel as though the ensemble is as much punk band as it is jazz sextet. Under the leadership of alto saxophonist Anna Högberg, the group plays loud and fast free jazz which is as stylish as it is raucous. Even the monochrome album art and absence of capitalized song titles reflect the album's mood, energetic and effortless. lena's six Högberg-penned tracks revisit the style of ...

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Niklas Barno / Joel Grip / Didier Lasserre: Can't Stop Snusing

Read "Can't Stop Snusing" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The sophomore release of this Swedish-French trio is powerful as its excellent debut from two years ago, Snus (Ayler, 2010). Can't Stop Snusing, named after the Swedish moist-powder tobacco, is an infectious, raw and direct set of free jazz improvisations by fearless musicians. The trio is comprised of Swedish trumpeter Niklas Barnö and bassist Joel Grip, who also collaborate in the Swedish sextet Je Suis!, and French autodidact drummer Didier Lasserre. From the first seconds of the ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

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Armadillo Records
2021

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lena

OMLOTT Records
2020

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Can't Stop Snusing

Ayler Records
2012

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