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

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1. just finished a solo recording for a Ecstatic Peace Casette (!!!)relaese… 100 copies only…

hard core filthy low fi live electronics and tenor sax…

release date tba asap

2. recording the 2nd album in the Qbico serie. “Mats G plays Albert A” in june. limited to 125 copies.

preperations done…

the 1st in the serie was “Mats G plays Duke E”( sold out )

release date tba

3. BAG IT! The Things new studio album recorded with Steve Albini in Chicago in 2008.

release date 9th june.

Special CD release with bonus disc ( BEEF BRISKET).

will be followed by a 2 LP release later this year with bonus material ( of course…)

4.“Sinners rather than Saints” the explosive Vilnius duo with Barry Guy on No Business Records.

release date 1st june

5. In connection with Clay Ketters HUGE exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm right now… a very limited special relaese of a one sided LP with a special etching and a unique screenprint will be realeased.

Clay Ketter / Anders Lindsjö/ Mats Gustafsson recorded by Jakob Riis playing Led Zeppelin (!) and JC Morrison…

release date may 30th

New CDs:

Torden Kvartetten – devil´s last call
W. Mats Gustafsson, Per Åke holmlander, Peter Ole Jörgensen, Peter Friis Nielsen
Ninth world music 042 CD
www.ninthworldmusic.com
a FULL blast Free Jazz Excursion live in Copenhagen. Leave no prisoners!

Relay Archive 2007 – 2008
Free improvisation concert sries in Seoul, south Korea
w. one track by Choi Joonyong, Mats Gustafsson and Jin Sangtae
other music by a.o. Hankil Ryu, dieb13, Hong Chulki, Taku Sugimoto, Taku Unami
manual cd 02
www.themanual.co.kr
a wonderful insight into the GREAT Korean scene of noise and improvised music! One of the most amazing scenes for this music that there is!!! FanFuckinTastic!!!

Maja Spasova – Maja af Svea
Maja Spasova music and sound pieces and remixes by Andrea Neumann, Per Svensson, Mats Gustafsson, Adriano Theel and hans Appelqvist.
Olof Bright OBCD 20/21
www.olofbright.com
a very unique release with amazing sound pieces of high textural quality and pleasure!
Remixes by a bunch of highly recommended names and profiles.

My Cat is an Alien / Mats Gustafsson
Volume 6
A Silent Place ASP 33
www.asilentplace.it
a split CD ( former a split limited edtion vinyl of 100 copies…  all sold out…) of great italian space brothers and Gustafsson in some electronic territory in the great Cosmic Debris serie that the Opalio brothers are continuosly putting out!

New 7”:

Mats Gustafsson & Lennart Nilsson
SOUNDFOOD
Olof Bright EP 24
www.olofbright.com
a collaboration between the great wine and food conneiseur and festival general Lennart Nilsson and Gustafsson. A beautiful book designed by Karin Almlöf with a 7” vinyl attached.