THE UNDERFLOW
Jul.19, 2019
The Underflow
photo : John Corbett
David Grubbs – electric guitar and voice
Mats Gustafsson – saxophones and live electronics
Rob Mazurek – trumpet and electronics
The Underflow is the newly minted trio of Mats Gustafsson (reeds, electronics), Rob Mazurek (trumpet, electronics), and David Grubbs (electric guitar). Their self-titled debut album was recorded live in Athens, Greece at the record store/performance venue Underflow and will be released in the fall of 2019 by Corbett vs. Dempsey.
Although Gustafsson, Mazurek, and Grubbs have played together separately and operate within an extensive, overlapping network of collaborators, the three had not convened as a trio until John Corbett proposed the grouping for two nights of concerts in Athens in the summer of 2019. But there is a history: although originally from Sweden, Mats Gustafsson was a regular, vital presence in Chicago during the period when Mazurek and Grubbs were making their mark. It’s Rob Mazurek’s cornet that pushes Gastr del Sol to new highs on the track “The Seasons Reverse,” and Grubbs and Gustafsson released two duo albums in 1999 and 2003 (Apertura and Off-Road), and have been primed for years to take it to the stage again.
The Underflow shows the trio hitting their stride instantly, ranging widely and weirdly with utter self-possession as they veer between a dense frontline of electronics; Gustafsson’s lapidary fluteophone and explosive baritone sax; Grubbs’s crystalline, athematic voice on the guitar; and Mazurek’s all-bets-off improvisatory wildness on trumpet, sampler, and hollerin’ vocal. Satisfying as it is, this recording is only a hint of what lies ahead for the trio as they plot their first tour in early 2020.
the music will be released in the fall of 2019 by CorbettvsDempsey on CD and the Underflow art gallery and recordshop on limited edition vinyl!!!
Touring period Europa: Jan 18th – 25th 2020
Available for festivals and project all year.
booking: danielle@oosterop.com
DAVID GRUBBS
David Grubbs has released fourteen solo albums and appeared on more than 190 releases; his most recent solo recording is Creep Mission (Blue Chopsticks, 2017). Grubbs was a founding member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has performed with Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, the Red Krayola, Matmos, Royal Trux, Will Oldham, Loren Connors, Otomo Yoshihide, Jan St. Werner, Eli Keszler, and many others. He is known for his ongoing cross-disciplinary collaborations with poet Susan Howe and visual artists Anthony McCall and Angela Bulloch, and in 2000, his The Spectrum Between (Drag City) was named “Album of the Year” in the London Sunday Times. Grubbs is the author of Now that the audience is assembled and Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording (both Duke University Press) and, with Anthony McCall, Simultaneous Soloists (Pioneer Works Press).
“Grubbs self-consciously split[s] his brain to exacerbate the essential creative conflict, the experimental academic battling the sentimental artist on a darkling plain. The listener wins again.”
Stewart Lee, London Sunday Times
MATS GUSTAFSSON
Improviser and composer. Soloartist. Worldwide tours in working groups, Fire!, NU – emsemble, Fire! Orchestra, Luft, The End, Anguish and related. Collaborations with contemporary dance, theatre, visual arts as well as projects within noise, electronica, contemporary rock, contemporary music and free jazz.
Projects together with Jim O´Rourke, Christian Marclay, Albert Oehlen, Peter Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark, Eye, Joe McPhee, Merzbow, Otomo Yoshihide, Sabu Toyozumi, Derek Bailey, Paul Lovens, Neneh Cherry, Yoshimi and others
Producer and curator of International festivals and concert tours as well as work with his own record labels Slottet, Crazy Wisdom, OlofBright Editions, Blue Tower Records and TROTS.
Discaholik.
“There’s not much I can add to that. Very beautiful, very original…Full of surprise and very stimulating. More power to him.…I would vote for him, yeah”
-steve lacy, 2000
“one of the world’s most original and exhilarating saxophonists” Barry Witherden, BBC Music Magazine
“He sucks…”
-olof madsen, 2005
ROB MAZUREK
Rob Mazurek is a multidisciplinary artist/abstractivist, with a focus on electro-acoustic composition, improvisation, performance, painting, sculpture, video, film and installation, who spent much of his creative life in Chicago, and then Brazil. He currently lives and works in Marfa Texas with his wife Britt Mazurek.
Over the years Mazurek has lead/co-lead many ensembles of various sizes and shapes including Exploding Star Orchestra, Exploding Star International, Desert Encrypts, Immortal Birds Bright Wings, Pharaoh and the Underground (featuring Pharoah Sanders), Chicago Underground, Jeff Parker Duo, Pulsar Quartet, São Paulo Underground, Alternate Moon Cycles, Alien Flower Sutra, Star Splitter, each of which possesses its own distinct musical personality. He has collaborated with a wide variety of artists, such as the great Bill Dixon, Pharoah Sanders, Mike Ladd, Roscoe Mitchell, Yusef Lateef, Fred Anderson, Nicole Mitchell, Fred Hopkins, Liam Gillick, Naná Vasconcelos, Rodrigo Brandao, Jim O’Rourke and others.
…all of Mazurek’s work, draws from multiple traditions, each of them already porous and absorbent, and combines ideas from each into something utterly new, while keeping it welcoming to almost any curious listener.”
– The Wire
“Mixing the opaque with the diffused and blurring the lines between electric and acoustic, Rob Mazurek’s wide ambition continues to race toward the outer limits of what is possible in music.”
– Something Else
photo : John Corbett
ANGUISH
May.10, 2019
ANGUISH
NEW group of NOISEFREEJAZZHIPHOPPSYCH BEAUTY!
Will Brooks (dälek)
vocals, SAMPLR, Eventide/Elektron effect pedals, 1 note on MOOG rogue, 3 notes on grand piano
Mats Gustafsson (Fire!, The End)
tenor saxophone, live electronics, 3 notes on grand piano
Hans Joachim Irmler (Faust)
synthesizers, vocals
Mike Mare (dälek)
guitar, electronics, synthesizer
Andreas Werliin (Fire! Wildbirds & Peacedrums)
“The dark, impossibly intense dirges, industrial noise onslaughts and banshee-like free jazz wailing heard throughout Anguish could be an imposing soundtrack for a dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. This powerhouse, inter-generational offering and RareNoise Records debut brings together an unlikely gathering of members of the New Jersey-based experimental hip-hop group Dälek (electronic musician and vocalist Will Brooks, guitarist-keyboardist Mike Mare), the Swedish free jazz group Fire! Orchestra (tenor saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, drummer Andreas Werliin) and the classic ‘70s German krautrock band Faust (keyboardist and 68-year-old founding member Hans Joachim Irmler).
THE END
Apr.25, 2019
THE END
Sofia Jernberg – voice
Kjetil Møster – sax & electronics
Mats Gustafsson – sax & electronics
Ander Hana – guitar & drums
Børge Fjordheim – drums
THE END IS HERE?
THE END of experimental music as know it?
THE END IS HERE!
THE END
The members of the group has experience from work in a huge variety of
creative music ensembles over the past years: Cloroform , Møster, The Thing, Fire! & Fire! Orchestra, Ultralyd, MoHa, Paavo, Datarock, The Core, Noxact, NU- ensemble, Brutal Blues and many other essential groups within the contemporary creative music scene of today.
THE END is an attempt to use all of those experiences and melt it together into something new and creative. Something of deeper poetic beauty and harsh brutality.
Industrial Grindcore Free Jazz MEETS Sing & noise Hardcore Folk music Esthetics!
THE END means the sensational return of Anders Hana on guitar! After years of playing only intense Grindcore drums, he is now back playing the guitar!
THE END means the first serious meet of the two Scandinavian innovative saxophone free blowers Møster and Gustafsson in a co – led unit!
THE END means the presentation of the extreme voice of Sofia Jernberg in a totally new context surrounded by extreme electronics and drum- activites!
THE END means a totally new group of legendary Cloroform drummer Børge Fjordheim!
THE END means THE END
THE END is a serious attempt to create new perspectives of contemporary experimental music – where elements of noise, melodies and layers of extreme energy can interact with the different backgrounds and experiences of the musicians and their work in genres as Free Jazz, Noise, Alternative Rock, Free Improvised Music, Scandinavian Folk Music, Contemporary Music, Opera, Grindcore, Ethnic music, Jazz and all related activities!
Expect ENERGY
Expect BEAUTY
The First record, The End – Svårmod Och Vemod Är Värdesinnen (sadness and melancholy
are senses of value)
was released june 2018 , on the UK based label RareNoiseRecords.
https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/
booking:
soon THE END
Apr.29, 2018
THE DEBUT ALBUM of THE END!!!!!
release date june 28th 2018!!!
with great artwork by Edward Jarvis.
LUFT
Feb.02, 2018
LUFT
BAGPIPES AND REEDS!
photo: micke keysendal
erwan keravac- bagpipes
mats gustafsson – saxophones and piano mate
Free-jazz saxophone / noise vs New bagpipe tradition
Unusual points of view on a modern music by the meeting of techniques of saxophone suedo-Austrian transferred by the American and European jazz answering a Scottish instrument become hybrid by the french modern music.
Microtonals Clusters, pneumatic noise, circulating frenzy, oscillating, resulting in a new poetic energy!
Compressed air by cylindrical and conical projectors. Air of the delivery, liquified Air, split up Air, concen- trated Air.
LUFT
LUFT Removal,
To give to the Air a new prospect
LUFT.
Erwan Keravec
www.erwankeravec.com
Erwan is a Breton piper (Scottish bagpipes) whose eclectic path ranges from traditional to contemporary music and improvisation. This encompasses bagads (Breton bagpipe bands), the Niou Bardophones quar- tet, a traditional duo with his brother Gue?nole? Keravec, free improvisation with Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Ben?at Achiary, Arfi, Camel Ze?kri, etc.
He write and play music for modern dance companies (Boris Charmatz, Daniel Linehan, Emmanuelle Huynh, Gae?lle Bourges, Ce?cile Borne, Mickae?l Phelippeau). He plays solo pieces, ‘Nu-Piping’ written for him by such composers as Philippe Leroux, Se?bastien Be?ran- ger, Xavier Garcia, Zad Moultaka, Bernard Cavanna, Franc?ois Rosse?, Benjamin de la Fuente and Susumu Yoshida. For such commissions, he is associate artist with the Centre de Cre?ation Musicale at The?a?tre de Cornouaille in Quimper, Brittany.
Lastly, in ‘Urban Pipes’ Erwan presents his work as a composer and an improviser, both in solo and in duos –with Ben?at Achiary, Gue?nole? Keravec, Alain Mahe?.
THE HANDS!!!!!
Jan.24, 2018
the new FIRE! record is here — release date jan 26th 2018!!!!
reviews:
THE HANDS
video: martin malm
music: FIRE! – the hands
on rune grammfon
feature in jazzwise here:
http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/breaking-news/14846-video-premiere-fire-take-hold-with-the-hands
THE END
Jan.17, 2018
THE END!
recording is made at duper studio in bergen. 2 INTENSE days of freejazznoisehardcoreindustrialrockethnopsych mash!!!!!
TAKK jörgen!
mixing is starting up next week…. and record will be out in may….. watch out for video and special live mixes!!!!
it was an AMAZING week of music and new and old friendships —- and some great venues: Pumpehuset / Alice, Victoria and Landmark – thank you ALL!
it was
the beginning of
THE END!
TEASER VIDEO THE END
Jan.09, 2018
WORLD PREMIERE — THURSDAY —
jan 11th – in copenhagen!
https://www.facebook.com/events/130556414286351/
——— ALICE IN COPENHAGEN c/ o PUMPEHUSET —————
thursday —— jan 11th 2018
THE END IS HERE!
A brand NEW group of experimental music will see the light in 2018!? THE END
The members of the group has experience from work in a huge variety of? creative music ensembles over the past years: Deerhoof, Møster!, The Thing, Fire! & Fire! Orchestra, Nervous Cop, Ultralyd, MoHa!, Paavo, Datarock, The Core, Noxagt, NU- ensemble, Brutal Blues and many other essential groups within the contemporary creative music scene of today.
THE END is an attempt to use all of those experiences and melt it together into something new and creative. Something of deeper poetic beauty and harsh brutality. Industrial Grindcore Free Jazz MEETS Sing & noise Hardcore Esthetics!
jan 12— all ears – oslo , norway
jan 13 – landmark -bergen , norway
booking: danielle@oosterop.com
a RARE NOISE RECORDINGS project!!!!!
THE END
Sep.24, 2017
THE END
Sofia Jernberg – voice
Kjetil Møster – sax & electronics
Mats Gustafsson – sax & electronics
Anders Hana – guitar
Greg Saunier – drums
THE END IS HERE?
THE END of experimental music as we know it?
THE END IS HERE!
A brand NEW group of experimental music will see the light in 2018!? THE END
The members of the group have experience from work in a huge variety of creative music ensembles over the past years: Deerhoof, Møster!, The Thing, Fire! & Fire! Orchestra, Nervous Cop, Ultralyd, MoHa!, Paavo, Datarock, The Core, Noxagt, NU- ensemble, Brutal Blues and many other essential groups within the contemporary creative music scene of today.
THE END is an attempt to use all of those experiences and melt it together into something new and creative. Something of deeper poetic beauty and harsh brutality. Industrial grindcore free jazz MEETS sing & noise hardcore esthetics!
THE END means the sensational return of Anders Hana on guitar! After years of playing only intense Grindcore drums, he is now back playing the guitar!
THE END means the first serious meeting of the two Scandinavian innovative saxophone free blowers Møster and Gustafsson.
THE END means the presentation of the extreme voice of Sofia Jernberg in a totally new context surrounded by extreme electronics and drum- activites!
THE END means the first ever Scandinavian based group of legendary Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier!
THE END means THE END
THE END is a serious attempt to create new perspectives of contemporary experimental music – where elements of noise, melodies and layers of extreme energy can interact with the different backgrounds and experiences of the musicians and their work in genres as free jazz, noise, alternative rock, free improvised music, contemporary music, opera, grindcore, jazz and related activities!
Expect ENERGY Expect BEAUTY
THE END is making its first tour in January 2018, followed by a studio recording in Bergen, Norway for the UK based label RareNoise Recordings.
https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/
11th jan – Copenhagen
12th jan – Oslo
13th jan – Bergen
The wintertour of 2018 will be followed up by the release of their debut album. “THE END” on Rare Noise Recordings in late spring 2018. Summer festivals and touring activities in 2018/ 19 are being planned – watch out for THE END.
EVERYTHING comes to an END.
THE END!
THE END IS HERE!
contact: danielle@oosterop.com
booking:
danielle@oosterop.com
http://www.oosterop.com/
THE END — new GROUP!!!
Sep.23, 2017
THE END
Sofia Jernberg – voice
Kjetil Møster – sax & electronics
Mats Gustafsson – sax & electronics
Anders Hana – guitar
Greg Saunier – drums
THE END IS HERE?
THE END of experimental music as we know it?
THE END IS HERE!
A brand NEW group of experimental music will see the light in 2018!? THE END
The members of the group have experience from work in a huge variety of creative music ensembles over the past years: Deerhoof, Møster!, The Thing, Fire! & Fire! Orchestra, Nervous Cop, Ultralyd, MoHa!, Paavo, Datarock, The Core, Noxagt, NU- ensemble, Brutal Blues and many other essential groups within the contemporary creative music scene of today.
THE END is an attempt to use all of those experiences and melt it together into something new and creative. Something of deeper poetic beauty and harsh brutality. Industrial grindcore free jazz MEETS sing & noise hardcore esthetics!
THE END means the sensational return of Anders Hana on guitar! After years of playing only intense Grindcore drums, he is now back playing the guitar!
THE END means the first serious meeting of the two Scandinavian innovative saxophone free blowers Møster and Gustafsson.
THE END means the presentation of the extreme voice of Sofia Jernberg in a totally new context surrounded by extreme electronics and drum- activites!
THE END means the first ever Scandinavian based group of legendary Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier!
THE END means THE END
THE END is a serious attempt to create new perspectives of contemporary experimental music – where elements of noise, melodies and layers of extreme energy can interact with the different backgrounds and experiences of the musicians and their work in genres as free jazz, noise, alternative rock, free improvised music, contemporary music, opera, grindcore, jazz and related activities!
Expect ENERGY Expect BEAUTY
THE END is making its first tour in January 2018, followed by a studio recording in Bergen, Norway for the UK based label RareNoise Recordings.
https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/
11th jan – Copenhagen
12th jan – Oslo
13th jan – Bergen
The wintertour of 2018 will be followed up by the release of their debut album. “THE END” on Rare Noise Recordings in late spring 2018. Summer festivals and touring activities in 2018/ 19 are being planned – watch out for THE END.
EVERYTHING comes to an END.
THE END!
THE END IS HERE!
contact: danielle@oosterop.com
booking:
danielle@oosterop.com
http://www.oosterop.com/
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