Lisa Ullén / Elsa Bergman / Anna Lund — Space (Relative Pitch)
Space by Ullén/Bergman/Lund Trio
Some record labels come at you with a look, or a sound, or a scene to push; Relative Pitch brings a mission. The New York-based imprint, which has a release schedule packed enough to make Clean Feed and Astral Spirits nervous, reaches past its locale to point out artists that you might miss.
Take this trio, for example. Swedish improvisers Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman and Anna Lund can’t exactly be called newcomers. Ullén has been playing piano in improvisational and theatrical settings since the 1990s, and making records since 2006. Bassist Bergman and drummer Lund have each been on the scene for several years, and all three of them can be heard together in Anna Högberg’s Attack! But to know all that, it would really help to be in Stockholm, or at least Scandinavia. Space is not only their first album as a trio, but a rare occasion for any of them to be on a record released in the USA.
