another heavy azz release!!!
Mar.19, 2011
a new SWEDISH AZZ release: our full lenght album is here!!!
AZZ APPEAL AZZ APPEAL AZZ APPEAL!!!!!

this is what we do:
1. Side A: Full opus 3 – Fånerier, nr 8 – Full opus 4 / PH Wallin [08:30]
2. Side A: Karl- Bertil Jonsson 14 år / G Svensson [02:30]
3. Side A: Lidingö Airport / B Nilsson + Visa från Utanmyra / trad-Jan Johansson [10:30]
4. Side B: Hugin och Munin / G Riedel + Fedja / L Gullin [16:05]
5. Side B: Elysium / L Werner [06:08]
and of course only on vinyl…. this time on 12″ format… the previous relesaes has been on 11″ (!) and 7″… plaese check the great label Not Two Records web for more information:
http://www.nottwo.com/index.php
RELEASE DATE march 21st 2011 !!!!
new mego release!!!
Mar.19, 2011
its here: IT´S HERE!!!!!!!

Masami Akita!! Mats Gustafsson!! Jim O’Rourke!!
“one bird two bird”
deMEGO 016
edition mego says:
“Three titans of experimental music with more than 3 decades of experience clashing together for a monster studio session in Tokyo, 2009. Resulting in two blistering sides of wax full of face melting intensity.
Fuck yeah!!!”
and with those words… this vinyl is SOLD OUT!
really sorry about that… but please check edMEGO´s site for more news and ev returns…. it might be possible to still order one or two….
(release date: april 2011)
SOME ETHIOPIAN ACTIVITY!!!!!
Mar.07, 2011
The EX with Paal Nilssen – Love & Mats Gustafsson together with Getatchew Mekuria, Melaku and other friends……
beautiful film on marion brown
Mar.05, 2011
check this out!!!!
an amazing film by henry english on marion brown… killin footage and amazing music w ao dave burrell, sirone and bobby kapp
MINDBLOWING!
marion brown r.i.p.
ethiopia!!!!!
Mar.01, 2011
Back from Ethiopia!!!

9 days w the EX & Paal Nilssen – Love, in Addis and Debre Berhan…. playing every day, concerts, school concerts, workshops and recordings w amazing…. insaneley AMAZING ethiopian musicians, Getatchew Mekuria ( the one and only….), Chalachew Ashenafi, Mesele Asmamaw, Mesale Legesse, Endress and many many more!!! and dancers out of this world…. thanx Melaku Belay – for showing how things can be MOVED!!!
FENDIKA — the most amazing club in the world???? for sure!!!!!
an experience that goes beyond it all….. beyond…. the music, the people , the culture….all FANTASTIC!

( and I got a killin 7″ of ethiopian music: tilahoun gessesse : tchuheten bitsemu )
but looking for vinyl and stuff was very secondary this time…. first time that happened! ;))
and shitloads of ethiopian casettes…amazing….amazing…..

there is a lot documented on tape, files, video tape and photos… be prepared for releases in the future!
and be prepared for many many more collaborations in the future… in Europe, in Ethiopia and elsewhere.. this is the beginning!
THANK YOU THE EX!!!!! ———- have a great tour in the US!
FIRE! NY HEMSIDA !!!!
Feb.08, 2011
nu rullar den…. the new homepage of FIRE!
the mighty micke K have done it again!
check it out… and hold your horses until the new album… LP & CD… is out on Rune grammofon later this spring… FIRE! & Jim O `Rourke , recorded in Japan… all music from outer and inner space…
australia with the thing
Feb.02, 2011
a new records is made…..
THE THING — “MONO”
coming on smalltown superjazzz on vinyl and cd…
recorded in melbourne 31st jan and 1st feb… with mighty Casey Rice….
on 2 ” tape…. in MONO!!!!!
old school… moving in and out to the mic… playing FIREMUSIC… some surprising music… of EXPLOSIVE QUALITY!!!! my oh my…..

We woudl like to thank all the great people in New Zeeland and Australia for all help and support!!!!
and we woudl like to thank all our new friends:

all the best /// THE THING
new vinyl trades feb 2011
Jan.31, 2011
so.. here it is… the first vinyl trade list of 2011…
check it out and email me back : mats@matsgus.com
if…. u wanna trade any of the following items…. the first good offer gets the get;
email me with suggestions of trades and we will work it all out!


Rold Liebermann and george gruntz(!) presenting ” les echanges” with pierre favre and daniel humair with george gruntz on prepared piano……
Komposition for 156 machinen….
a 7″ vinyl as wild as u can imagine…. really bizarre… really great!!!!
TRADED… of course…….


the freakin BEST LP of improvised music ever recorded ????
I kid u not!!!
this is the SHIT! the 1st pressing…. of the most fierce , brutal most amazing improvised music ever… the first release on derek baileys classic label INCUS…. it does NOT get better then this….
THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE LUNGS with Han Bennink, Evan Parker and Derek Bailey…. the ULTIMATE RECORD….. EVER!
TRADED… of course……


one of the msot sought after LPs of FREE JAZZ ….. Robert Pozar´s Good Golly Miss Nancy… with the mighty Jimmy Garrison on bass!!!
One of the rarest and most KILLIN releases on Savoy ever….. this is a BOMB!!!!!… and in great shape toooo….. THIS IS THE BOMB!!!!!!!
Robert Pozar – Good Golly Miss Nancy — Savoy SMG 12189
TRADED … of course…..

Hamiet Bluiett Quartet – SOS Live in New York City….on India Navigation
do u like free jazz on baritone sax ??? this is the ONE!!! great great action by the fantastic Mr Bluiett on the bari…. insane…and WILD!!!!
STILL AVAILABLE!

Jaap Blonk —- singing/ making…. ursonate by Kurt Schwitters…
a COMPLETELY great LP with the most KILLLIN version of the ursonate ever…. delated and long gone 1st and only pressing…. very sought after… and worth it all! HIGHLY recommended!!!!
TRADED…. sorry…..

Kenneth Patchen – reads with jazz…. on folkways….
Patchen…. the one and only… one of the most amazing writers ever…. reading his own poetry to some very very hip canadian jazz….Alan Neil quartet…. the poetry is beyond… beyond it all…. amazing!! killin voice !!!!
TRADED!!!


an amazing document of belgian improvised music… mind bending…. totally great!
classic underground!!!!
out in space… and inside…. all at once!!! great cover and amazing music….. whatever happened after this amazing LP ?
INAUDIBLE
TRADED!!!!!


and the BOMB:
Tomas Stanko w Stu Martin on EMS synthi (!!!) and Janusz Stefanski on drums….
this is WILD WILD shit…. amazing and very surprising… a very very early document of european improvised music… very very rare polish 1 st pressing… cover with traces of tape… but vinyl is in very great shape!
this is a GOOD one!!!! a VERY good one…..
TRADED…. of course…..
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Good Luck with it all !!!!!
one piece of vinyl per day keeps the doctor away…. always…. always…..
the best vinyl finds of 2010
Dec.29, 2010
there is a lot a LOT of great vinylfinds this year…. just wanted to take the chance before the new year hits, to tell, to inform, to amuse… with some mentions:
especially fantastic finds were:
– a 7″ with art blakey jazz messengers w jerome richardson on baritone, produced by a church in the US (!!!) – insane and out of control!!! extremely rare….
– han bennink & willem breuker – ICP 001 with a 1968 collage by bennink… just beautiful!
– les echanges by rolf lieberman & george gruntz with pierre favre ( 7″) – WILD!!!!
-Free jazz by Guido Manusardi and rumanian musicians on electrocord (10″)… just fantastic music! KILLIN!!!!
– the original of Monk plays the music of Duke Ellington, with the first beautiful cover… such music is beyond it all…..
– the very first pressing of Topograhy of the Lungs with Derek Bailey, Evan Parker and Han Bennink with the original amazing insert by Evan Parker… that text ROCKS!!! and the music must be one of the most amazing documents of european improvised music EVER!!!!!
and…. the bomb of the bombs… recieving in a parcel from Russia the 28th dec…!!!!!!!!!!
a record I didnt even knew about. Evan Parker told me about this Lp while we were rehearsing in Krakow in november with the Barry Guy New Orchestra… and is confirming the line up of this AMAZING session!!!

Manfred Schoof Quintet :
Manfred Schoof – trumpet
Evan Parker – tenor sax
Alex von Schlippenbach – piano
Buschi Niebergall – bass
Han Bennink – drums

recorded in Warsaw 1967 on the Polish Muza label…. playing Sonny Rollins OLEO!!!!
and its just…. FUCKIN FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!! OVER THE FREAKIN TOP GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY NEW EARS!!!!!!!!! /////// all the best / peace & fire / mg