a new meeting w great visual artist Torbjörn Johansson and visionary dance Annika Kompart and musician Mats Gustafsson

at Danshallarna in Copenhagen, Denmark.

24th april 2017

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154622168414385&set=a.134693404384.102781.694224384&type=3&theater

New updates. And a long list this time!

http://matsgus.com/discaholic_corner/?category_name=trades

All up for grabs!!!

Hit me with an offer  and let me know what interests you – and we will try to work it all out – tradewise!

mats@matsgus.com

good luck !

and please remember to visit our other website – with set prices for improvised / free jazz records, updates very first Friday pf the month:

http://discaholic.com/

some new releases, while we are waiting or the summer, while we are waiting for a new rare piece of vinyl… while we are waiting for trump to be trumped…while we are waiting….

mats gustafsson & joachim nordwall – map of guilt

bocian records

mats gustafsson & craig taborn – ljubljana

cleanfeed records

https://cleanfeed-records.com/jazz-and-blues-mats-gustafsson-craig-taborn-ljubljana/

mats gustafsson & alfred vogel – blow and beat

Boomslang Records

ENJOY!!!!!!!

in russian this time…. a new interview on HITCH:

https://hitch.space/mats-olof-gustafsson?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mats-gustafsson-lyubov.-zhizn.-muzyka.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE at jazzclub FASCHING in stockholm this spring is

mats gustafsson.

programserie LISTEN UP! is here:

12 april: UP UMEÅ with Phil Minton + Signe Emmeluth (solo)
10 maj: ZU + Anna Högberg (solo)
12 maj: Radian + Signe Dahlgreen (solo)
13 maj: Fire! + Sofia Jernberg (solo) + Isak Hedtjärn (solo)
22 maj: Hedvig Mollestad trio + GUSH & Sven-Åke Johansson + Guds Söner

minifestivals every event:

improvised music solo activity, peerformances,  unique signature drinks every evening, DJ´s , recordshops selling vinyls ( Andra Jazz, record mania, pet sounds, swejazz & Substance / Trost), unique record cover exhibitions, hard hitting group activities and MORE…. secret guests…

LISTEN UP!!!!!

more info here:

http://www.fasching.se/senaste-nytt/#/pressreleases/frijazzstjaernan-mats-gustafsson-presenterar-konsertserie-paa-fasching-i-vaar-1839951

LISTEN UP!!!!

LISTEN UP!!!!

premiere is done!!!

MOLENENS BRÖDER is up and running!

…for almost the whole year of 2017.

recent reviews here: ( all in swedish so far….)

www.salt-peanuts.com

http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/scenrecensioner/molnens-broder-pa-dramaten/

Molnens bröder på Dramaten – ett konstverk helt enkelt

http://www.dramaten.se/repertoar/molnens-broder/

http://www.dramaten.se/repertoar/molnens-broder/

TONIGHT — feb 23rd 2017.

grand premiere at the Royal Theatre – DRAMATEN –  in Stockholm: MOLNENS BRÖDER

with music by FIRE!!!!

playing the whole of 2017.

soon.. premiere… molnens bröder….. directed by Lars rudolfsson…. music by Fire!

playing the whole of 2017….

23 rd feb 2017 — world premiere in stockholm at DRAMATEN  –

http://www.dramaten.se/repertoar/molnens-broder/

with a video clip included.

NB – some of the performances will be translated to English:

10 march

11 march

19 march

24 march

28 march

11 april

The improvised and composed music by the experimental ensemble Fire! will be the hub and the flow in the play Molnens bröder (The Brothers of the Clouds), that opens on February 23rd on Sweden’s National Theatre in Stockholm, The Royal Dramatic Theatre – also known as Dramaten. The ensemble of 17 actors will create frictions and parallel layers of poetic beauty when interacting with the musicians. Mats Gustafsson, reeds and organ, is the musical director and will be on stage together with Johan Berthling, bass and organ, and Andreas Werliin, drums and  percussion.

The play is based on two novels by Swedish author Barbro Lindgren; Eldvin and Molnens bröder. It is set in a 1920’s asylum and tells us poetic tales of deep sorrow and wild fantasies.
The director Lars Rudolfsson has been the Artistic Director at the independent theatre Orionteatern for many years and has created spectacular performances of international acclaim.  A close collaboration with Benny Andersson (ABBA) has added to his performances.

Fire! And Rudolfsson collaborated in the play Det flygande barnet (The Flying Child) by Roland Schimmelpfennig in 2015. The production was highly acclaimed for the way music and text interacted. Rudolfsson and Gustafsson met already in 1990 when they worked together with a version of Woyzeck by Georg Büchner at Orionteatern in Stockholm. Again with a strong focus on the interplay between improvised music and acting.

The trio Fire! has positioned itself as one of the most creative international units of experimental music and has collaborated with  Jim O’Rourke, Oren Ambarchi, Refused, Stephen O‘Malley, Mariam Wallentin, Martin Hederos, Loney Dear, Thomas Öberg and many others, either in a trio setting or in the large Fire! Orchestra setting. Tours in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Russia, USA and Europe has been flanked by numerous releases of albums on the norwegian label Rune Grammofon

Molnens bröder will be performed during the whole year of 2017 and therefore mark a very special year for Gustafsson and Fire!. Regular touring is put aside and full focus is given to this unique play.

a photo showed up today…. taken back in the day by Umeå rock researcher Jan Hofverberg .

the beginning of it all!

after starting Nirvana  in 1979 with great (be – bop) guitar player Andreas Pettersson – it moved on to the group on the photo:
Trans Jam (1981-83) with a young Kjell Nordeson ( of AALY trio and Nacka Forum- fame !) on drums.

some great video shoot from Meteo festival in mulhouse last august with the NU ensemble.

playing HIDROS 6 – KNOCKIN —- to Little Richard!

with the line up of:

Mariam Wallentin – vocals

Anders Nyqvist – trumpets

Mats Gustafsson – slide and bari sax

Joe McPhee – trumpet, tenor sax and space organ

Christer Bothén – bass clarinet and guimbri

Agustí Fernández– piano and organ

Kjell Nordeson – vibes, drums, flexatone, glockenspiel     

dieb13 – turntables

Per Åke Holmlander – tuba

Jon Rune Strom – bass

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten – bass

Paal Nilssen- Love – drums

Mikael werliin – sound

ENJOY!!!!!