Norrköping

Norrköping Artist: Gush
Label: Atavistic Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 735286116120
EAN: 0735286116120
ASIN: B0008FPIIG


Release Date: 2005-05-10

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Tracks:

  1. Handpicked
  2. Sava
  3. Rhomb

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Glorious Euro-free jazz of the highest order.......2005-06-12

This kind of thing doesn't always work. Why not? Lot's of times, it just isn't adequately grounded in a soundscape the average listener can relate to. Coming out of a kind of Euro free-jazz context, more or less successfully purveyed by artists like John Butcher, Evan Parker, Peter Brotzman, Joelle Leandre, John Stevens, Polwechsel, Frisque Concordance, and Georg Graewe, this kind of music often comes across as heady, self-focused, and esoteric.

These lads, much to their credit, have figured out how to make the avant-garde likable. Quite an achievement, if you ask me. Although not the kind of music that fans of the Rippingtons, Kenny G, and Chuck Mangione will cotton to, Norrkoping nevertheless operates in territory that anyone with big ears will be able to appreciate.

Mats Gustaffson (various wind instruments) and Raymond Strid (drums) are names anyone familiar with Euro free jazz will recognize. The ringer is pianist Sten Sandell, a player of huge consequence, if this disc is in any way typical of his instrumental prowess. Coming out of a Marilyn Crispell/Irene Schweizer/Georg Graewe bag, Sandell stamps these proceeding with a huge and entirely engaging presence.

One of the better out offerings of 2005.

Music CD:

  1. I Hope So ~ Dan Balmer
  2. Woman in Love V.2 ~ Various Artists
  3. Standard Coltrane ~ John Coltrane
  4. Anima ~ Thomas Chapin
  5. The Blue Lady ~ Doug Munro
  6. Klezmer 93 Tradition ~ Various Artists
  7. Ring ~ Gary Burton with Eberhard Weber and Pat Metheny
  8. In the Shade ~ Dade
  9. Hotel Hello ~ Steve Swallow
  10. Lightsey Live ~ Kirk Lightsey

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

We Getz Down ~ Rampage

Essentially Naked ~ Bif Naked

Radio Caroline Calling: 70's Flashback ~ Various Artists

British Are Coming ~ Various Artists

Sun Session ~ Pawnbrokers

Imperial ~ Robin Guthrie

Wow Gospel 2001 ~ Various Artists

Illegal Bass ~ Bass Outlaws

Bump Bump ~ Crown Jewelz

Draw the Line ~ Ghetto Mafia