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Various Artists - Sounds: Contemporary Swedish Improvised Music (1990)

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Listed: Lisa Ullén

Photo by Märta Thisner

Lisa Ullén is a pianist based in Stockholm, Sweden. Born in 1964 in Seoul, Korea and raised in Northern Sweden, where she moved after being adopted just prior to turning 4, Ullén initially focused her love of music in its immensity into classical piano training. Encounters with modern composition and improvisation steered her away off the straight and narrow, and she’s pursued both sides of music as a major contributor to Stockholm’s avant-garde music scene throughout this century. She is a valued side-person for bandleaders such as Anna Högsberg and Finn Loxbo, and a strong collaborator in ensembles such as Reading Music, which presents work by composers including Nomi Epstein and Hanna Hartman, and the free improv trio Space. Ullén has also recorded several volumes of solo piano music. Bill Meyer wrote of the most recent such release, Heirloom, “It’s easy to get hung up on the novelty of Ullén’s sounds, which impart a visceral thrill that’s likely to keep you coming back to them. But as one spends time with them, the existential dimension of how they’re played looms larger.”

In this moment, this is some music that means and/or has meant a lot to me. What I listen to and whatchanges.

Thelonius Monk — Criss Cross

What I particularly like about Monk is how his playing and compositions form a single entity. Even so his songs have an integrity all of their own. They are very much like his playing — there is this amazing clarity to everything he does. Every phrase is exceptionally well-articulated, even when it is slightly slurred. And he goes in the wrong direction at all the right places.

Andrea Neumann — Solo at Monopiano Festival

I have known Andrea Neumann´s music for a long time and I love her approach to time, sound, and space.There are such strengths and frailties in her music. Also, a lot of the music I listen to and really appreciate is like this — it is something that happens in a particular space and unfolds in real time. You can sometimes listen to it and appreciate it afterwards, via videos like this one, but it is not produced to be recorded, packaged, and sold.

Derek Bailey — Solo Guitar

When I started to dig into improvisation, I listened to a huge number of players, Derek Bailey among them… Big inspiration, also a huge impact on me.

Helmut Lachenmann — “Ausklang” from Musik für Klavier mit Orchester

Fantastic piece; how did they get all these extended techniques in an orchestral situation? Ueli Wiget on the piano — there are so many amazing classical pianists. But it’s also the composition as such, and the way it transposes one of the key elements of the piano as an instrument — its resonance, the Ausklang — into an orchestral setting. All instruments work with resonances in some ways, of course, but to do it collectively like this, and pick up on and extend effects which stem from the piano is beautiful and impressive.

Robert Wyatt — “Shipbuilding”

Of course… Robert Wyatt: his songwriting, his arranging, his voice. Also his choice of covers, and ability to make them his own. This one seems very apt again.

Captain Beefheart — “The Floppy Boot Stomp” from Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)

Outstanding, especially this late phase. Kudos to the Magic Band; I love the trombone. The instrumentation and arrangements on this one are fantastic, so carefully chiseled, yet full of surprises.

Aretha Franklin — “Climbing Higher Mountains” (Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, 1972)

I went to a gospel camp when I was 13 — I found a note for it somewhere, and applied without telling my mum. I took a long train ride to south of Sweden. I have always admired gospel music and not least gospel piano players. I would like to be one. But listening to Aretha in this movie is pretty good too… My gospel camp was not even close to this, but the feeling and energy reminds me of it.

Carla Bley — “The Lord Is Listenin’ To Ya, Hallelujah!”

The gospel according to Carla, with great trombone from Gary Valente. Carla’s music has followed me since my late teens. Always… Trombone again…

Kristine Scholz, Mats Persson, Sten Sandell — “To Begin With”

When I studied at the Academy, I had seminars with Mats Persson about new contemporary music and we played a lot of different material. A huge inspiration. Mats and Kristine Scholz are an outstanding duo. I love their careful interpretations of different composers. On this recording, they are joined by Sten Sandell, another amazing idiosyncratic pianist.

Bill Evans — “Gloria´s Step” from Sunday at the Village Vanguard

Amazing trio, extraordinary, with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motion. Once upon a time I was living in North Carolina, and among other things I did, I studied jazz piano and copied Bill Evans’ solos . But when I arrived in North Carolina, I had already gotten my head set on other things.

Cecil Taylor — Looking (Berlin version)

Morning, lunch, dinner — always Cecil… also his solo Silent Tongues. I attended a workshop with him in Stockholm in the late 1990s. I was too shy to say anything, but it made a huge impact. His solo concert at this time was a real thing… Life has not been the same since.

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2023-03-25 Tone Åse & Sten Sandell 'Voices in Between Voices' - Dokkhuset

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Ny Musikk i tre (eller fem) akter. Først Tone Åse – vokal og elektronikk, så Sten Sandell – piano og video. Åse og Sandell i samspill. Pamela Z – elektronikk, deriblant en del fjerne etterkommere etter thereminen – feltsensorer og bevegelsestriggere, og en framifrå stemme. Og til slutt alle tre samlet i finalen. Ubeskrivelig

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2019-04-06 Pamela Z / Sten Sandell / Tone Åse (Voices in between) – nyMusikk, Dokkhuset Ny Musikk i tre (eller fem) akter. Først Tone Åse - vokal og elektronikk, så Sten Sandell - piano og video.

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Konvoj Ensemble - Mira

KOR009 (CD & DIGITAL)

Lotte Anker: alto and soprano saxophone

Evan Parker: tenorsaxophone

Ola Paulson: alto and baritone saxophone

Liudas Mockunas: clarinet and bass Clarinet

Sten Sandell: grand piano & Voice

Jakob Riis: computer, real time processing

Anders Uddeskog: drums and percussion

This line up is an eccentric collection of freedom seekers with selfimposed formal requirements and energy management - as one reviewer so cleverly and correctly put it a few years ago. The extended version of the ensemble (feat. Evan Parker and Sten Sandell) played together for the first time during a residency at the festival Music Around in Malmö and Copenhagen 2012. That time, it resulted in the acclaimed album Colors Of:.

And now they're back!

Gathered around a collection of graphic scores and interactive methods, the ensemble uses their skills as sound explorers, to navigate through a complex musical organism. Mira is composed/constructed by Ola Paulson and Jakob Riis, on commission by the project Inter Labs, and was broadcasted live on Swedish Radio in connection with the Sound of Stockholm Festival in 2014.

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Just ten days to release!!! Wiiihooo!

Today the legendary Swedish music magazine Orkesterjournalen released a sneak peak of Konvoj Ensemble’s coming album Mira! We’re very happy for that! Listen to it at http://orkesterjournalen.com/wordpress/?p=9318

It seems that we are not the only ones excited! :-)

...and don’t forget to pre-order the cd’s at konvojrecords.bandcamp.com

Stay tuned!

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GUSH - the march

KOR005 (CD, VINYL 12” & DIGITAL)

Mats Gustafsson: soprano & tenor saxophone

Sten Sandell: piano & voice

Raymond Strid: drums, cymbals & percussion

Very few things need to be said about Gush. With their abstract compositions, dissonances and free improvisations, they have already found their way into the ears of most of the daring listeners. Gush was a central force in establishing the scene for free improvised music and free jazz in Sweden in the late 80's. The group and its musicians have since continued to strongly affect, mold, deform, develop, embroil and transform both the sound of their music as well as its audience.

Konvoj Records are very proud to present a recording of this amazing event in May, 2013!

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