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Christmann / Gustafsson / Lovens: Tr!o
by Mark Corroto
The first meeting (and there have been many more since) of this trio is a cause for a celebration that asks: “What took you so long?" Recorded live in 1994, this stellar document should not have taken sixteen years to surface.
Wrong righted, it celebrates the introduction of Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson (then age 30) with two improvisers twenty years his elder: cellist/trombonist Gunter Christmann and percussionist Paul Lovens. Gustafsson had already collaborated on the first-rate discs Mouth ...
read moreG: White Earth Streak
by AAJ Staff
White Earth Streak has something animalistic about it. Perhaps that's due to the bird-like timbre on many of these pieces. Or perhaps it's the persistent jungle atmosphere, with odd, uncategorizable voices coming at unpredictable intervals from all around. Most strikingly, it's the sense that the four players featured on this recording play from a spontaneous inner voice, issuing forth something primal below the level of controlling, rational “human" intellect.
This record was recorded in the early '80s and ...
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