Mikael Edlund (b. 1950) is a composer who has blazed new trails of his own. His string quartet "Brains and Dancin'" (1981) proved to be a major breakthrough for a composer of extreme austerity whose endeavour has come to focus on "sensuality and time". His rock and jazz ...
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PSCD20 | PHONO SUECIA
"New music which is not academic, a record which can demolish many prejudices" was one reviewer's verdict on this record, in which KammarensembleN, under its sadly short-lived founder and conductor Ansgar Krook, plays music by Anders Eliasson and Henrik Strindberg, ...
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PSCD57 | PHONO SUECIA
"Wlodek Gulgowski was born in 1944, in Lodz, Poland where he studied piano at the conservatory. After his studies, he dedicated himself to improvisation and jazz. He came to Sweden in 1965 and worked as a pianist, arranger and composer; during this time, he collaborated ...
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PSCD65 | PHONO SUECIA
"André Chini, a Frenchman by birth but living in Sweden for many years now, has always been critical of his former compatriots' nuclear weapons tests, and his Mururoa violin concerto was written in protest against them already in 1989. "Nils-Erik Sparf is a brilliant ...
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PSCD80 | PHONO SUECIA
"Music by Werner Wolf Glaser, one of Sweden's most productive composers. He was born i Cologne, Germany, but is since 1944 an important figure in the musical life of Vasteras, Sweden: as a composer, music reviewer and founder of The Vasteras School of Music. He studied ...
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PSCD14 | PHONO SUECIA
"When this recording was released, one review declared that the Hägersten Motet Choir and Ingemar Månsson, its director, belonged to the upper firmament of choral music! Innumerable are the works by Swedish composers which the choir has premiered. The three choral ...
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PSCD25 | PHONO SUECIA
"Eight one-minute songs jumping between Latin, rock and chanson with surrealistic lyrics in Portuguese, French and German. The trio consists of Guy Saldanha on vocals and bass, Christian Ribas (KNISTERN #4) on guitar and Martin Stieber on drums. The band started out as ...
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KNISTERN8 | KNISTERN
"Tetsuo Furudate is a furious player of furious music. Although mostly known for his solo work, Furudate has also played with Zbigniew Karkowski. This solo CD was recorded in the hot summer of 1998. Furudate plays his blend of guitar, percussive and orchestral samples ...
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gf67 | GOD FACTORY
"Lanaya is an instrumental trio from Bamako, Mali. They play music rooted in a centuries old tradition, inwhich the stories and sagas of Mali are musically preserved. The musicians are part of a professional caste, the griots or jalis. From generation to generation the ...
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AS-01 | TERP RECORDS
"The coasts of Brisbane, Australia have washed up in the flotsam and jetsam avant ensemble The Lost Domain. Despite being in existence since the late '80s, this joint release between labels in Oklahoma and Sweden is the nearest they have yet come to a wider audience. ...
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DIGI005 | BROKEN FACE
"New York meets London - Drum'n'Guitar perfection meets Casiogrind chaos. Six truly disturbing jewels on this neat little piece of vinyl are brought to you by John Peel favs Trencher and The Locust tour mates Orthrelm. While Ortrelm will let you stand there startled by ...
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TREE11 | A TREE IN A FIELD
