CY TWOMBLY

Currently there is a fantastic Cy Twombly exhibition in Vienna.  4th june – 11 oct 2009.

it HAS to be checked out. two floors of a good bit of the greatest stuff Twombly was dealing with. Early photography, sculptures, paintings, sketches and collages.

First time ever in Austria such a big retrospecive is shown….

truly truly amazing!!!

http://www.mumok.at/program/exhibitions/cy-twombly/?L=1

after seeing the dna changing collection in Houston last year….

http://www.menil.org/collection/CyTwomblyInDepth.php

… Cy Twombly became a very essential part of my universe. The great Menil collection in Houston basically built a whole gallery around his art!!! completey amazing… I couldnt fuckin believe it! It was really like stepping into another ( and truly great!) universe!

It took my breath away!!!!

If u ever are close to Houston, Texas, you need to check it out ( actually dont forget the Mark Rothko chappel… not so bad, either…). Its worth any kind of trip to just go there!!!

The Cy Twombly Gallery… one of the greatest art experience I ever had in a museum!!!

and if u cant make it to Texas, just go to Vienna before that exhibition closes! Momuk is also selling a really great catalogue in connection to the exhibition, one in English and one in German. Really good prints and interesting texts on Twombly.

Mario Schiano – alto sax , Italy

one very very personal saxplayer and pioneer of Italian and European improvised music.

just check the eminent article by the great Italian writer Francesco Martinelli:

http://www.pointofdeparture.org/archives/PoD-12/PoD12EuropeanProposal.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtspRk_bl0k

a video of an EXPLOSIVE gig in Vancouver recently with Fond of Tigers and Mats Gustafsson…

Fond of Tigers , a group FULL of really great players including the mighty Jesse Zubot!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In0zHo61buU

some more reviews of the newly released BAG IT!… and, yes… the double LP is on its way… with extras and all!

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/5075

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=186686

http://consequenceofsound.net/2009/06/30/album-review-the-thing-bag-it/

There is a shitload of reviews coming in on the Bag It! CD ( the LP is on its way, by the way… soon… 2 x lp… alternative cover, extra tracks… )

sorry about posting reviews and shit, when I should just post new vinyl trades and other important matters…

but here it is:

BBC Review
The band’s strongest recording yet.
Louis Pattison 2009-06-29
The Thing are jazz, but not as you know it. Formed over a decade ago
by Scandinavian players Mats Gustafsson, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and
Paal Nilssen-Love to interpret the songs of trumpeter Don Cherry, the
outfit has outgrown such humble aims to become something bigger… and
heavier. Across approaching a dozen releases, the influence of some of
free jazz’s most fiery performers – the likes of Peter Brotzmann and
Albert Ayler – have intermingled with a grounding in rock ‘n’ roll,
resulting in covers of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, White Stripes and
Lightning Bolt and a headbang-friendly dynamic that appeals outside
jazz circles.
For new album, Bag It!, The Thing have chosen an unlikely sort of foil
– veteran engineer Steve Albini, who has in the past made his distaste
for jazz quite clear. Actually, though, the pairing of The Thing’s
visceral playing and Albini’s raw analogue production style has
resulted in what might be the band’s strongest recording yet. Hidgen
Fujnaka A Szelek, a cover of Dutch anarcho-punk outfit The Ex, is a
raging opening, Gustafsson’s wailing, melancholic sax opening cutting
the ribbon on a blazing three-way interplay of grinding fuzz bass and
dashed drums, jagged bursts of skronk baritone sax and off-microphone
shouts. The following Drop The Gun, a cover of Japanese punk band 54
Nude Honeys, meanwhile, commences with racing riffs and spry drums,
but gradually picks up mass, Gustafsson setting down saxophone and
slaking the rhythm section with broiling electronics.
Following this double-barrelled opening salvo, The Thing relax a
little with the title track, a ten-minute piece that commences with an
extended segment of free play from Nilssen-Love before sax and bass
join the fray. The second half of Bag It! hits more traditional jazz
buttons, throwing in an energetic cover of Duke Ellington’s Mystery
Song – while a closing take of Albert Ayler’s Angels finally softens
the tone, a wistful melody from Gustafsson that fades to a rattle of
percussion and a quiet buzz of static.

the very first review of Barry Guy & Mats Gustafsson´s limited edition LP: SINNERS , RATHER THAN SAINTS

http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com/search?q=barry+guy+gustafsson+sinners

on the great No Business label in Vilnius, Lithuania.

order it NOW:

http://nobusinessrecords.com/

THE ARTFARMER  limited edition 12” vinyl  is here!!!!

This is an offer to purchase a numbered limited edition 12” vinyl record by
THE ARTFARMER.
This particular constellation is: Mats Gustafsson, baritone and tenor
saxophones, Clay Ketter, drums and Anders Lindsjö, bass guitar.
This record is released in conjunction with Ketter’s solo exhibition at
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, summer 2009. The record consists of 3 tracks
on the A-side, the B-side etched with a motif reminiscent of the exhibition.
Each sleeve contains a unique screenprint by Atelier Clay Ketter. Edition 300.
The Artfarmer was initially formed in November 1992 in association with Clay Ketter’s first solo exhibition in
Sweden. The Artfarmer has had different constellations throughout the years.
In 1998, while producing the theme music for a television series, they recorded and released a blues-rock
CD. Sporadic performances and recording sessions ensued during the following years with various guests,
always with Ketter/Lindsjö as a base.
Gustafsson and Lindsjö met the first time in 1986 and playing and recording with Jean Christophe
Morrison’s “Bad Quartet”. Ketter and Lindsjö met after a show the following year in New York City.
In the fall of 1990, the music of J.C. Morrison was played for the first time by the present trio, who join
nearly 20 years later to revisit these exquisite works, along with a tune by Jake Holmes, stolen by a far more
famous band in the late sixties – one of Ketters earliest and most enduring influences.

Some words about the record:
Swedish artist Clay Ketter has found the same patterns in houses, buildings, and traces in cities as did the artists of
l´art concret invent. This is extraordinary coming from two very different points of view. One being the pursuit of another
society the other being the traces of the society; of modernism so to say. Ketter´s art is in a way childish, looking with
wide open eyes at what he sees. Where the modernist artist yearned for change or stunned in admiration Ketter must
have discovered a kind of rhythmic pulse; usable for music as well as pictures.
This edition has been designed and formed by Ketter. The cover is not really a cover it is a print. He is playing with
signs of time, season and places. It gives you a sensation of longing although you know you just long for a time and not
a place. Could it be he is thinking of his own American background? The same goes for the beautiful vinyl itself with
music only on one side and etched art on the other.
Yes, I think the music tells us this session was a dream. The beat is strong and persistent, almost shamanistic, and
the sound is cooking as it did during the heydays of free jazz back in New York City… The magic really is its congenial
strength so far away from the city and its free jazz times. They are just in Uppåkra, Sweden, but seem to have forgotten
this obvious fact for a dream. The one you get a hint of just by looking at the record.
Thomas Millroth
get it before its too late… strictly limited and just….beautiful:

For more info please contact office@treffpunkt.nu
Free download of the music at www.treffpunkt.nu

great recordshopping in Vancouver , BC…. I tell you….

GREAT SHIT!

after a very nice evening with trading, listening and hanging… I came out of this AMAZING recordshop with HEEEAAVVVY stuff in my bag:

*Sun Ra – Daddy´s Gonna tell you no lie – a saturn 7″ !!! killing doo woop arkestra insanity!

*the Plastic Cloud – shadows of your mind, a Allied records 7″…. amazing early garage… amazing….

* Something Wild – Trippin´out on Psychadelic Records!!!! man oh man, this 45 has been on the top of my list for a couple of years now… the vinyl of the year! this is the BOMB!!!!

and some very very very neat 12″ :

*The Millenium – Begin (are you kidding me ??? this is a masterfuckinpiece of music! – it has it all!!!!, cant believe it… I finally found the 1st pressing of this monster!!!)

*The Golden Dawn – Power Plant… wow… wow… fuckin hell…. never heard of before… absolute chock! “five young men, with a powerful message” as it says on the beautiful sleeve. amazing garage / psych insanity!!!!

and another GARAGE BOMB!!!!!:

REIGN GHOST …again an ALLIED Record… and this is another BOMB!!! the weirdest, most beautiful voice in a garage setting, blowing your freakin brains OUT!!!!

and may more things ….

I tell you now… If you are around British Columbia, Canada,  at some point, just stop by this eminent vinyl shop for the greatest garage / psych stuff available!

http://dandelionrecords.ca/

TRE KRONOR w Magnus Broo, Christian Munthe, Raymond Strid, Per Åke Holmlander, Kjell Nordeson and Mats Gustafsson played Team Canada, led by captain Francois Houle in Vancouver last sunday…

its over…. the game is played….and we WON! we nailed it!!!!

5-4 after shoot outs!!!! the final shoot out was done on the great Stiga / Tumba Table top hockey game that we brought with us from Sweden.

Canada never had a chance really… 3-3 after full time and overtime. But we controlled the game the whole way.

Special THANKS to Fred Lonberg – Holm that was subbing for Jakob Riis as Referee.

Photo : Femke van Delft