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another fest!!!

Sep.13, 2011

and another fest before the wels insanity….. the maya recording festival is soon here:
23 – 25 sep

an amazing mix of barock music – improvised music – free jazz- contemporary music

to celebrate the GREAT label MAYA recordings!!!

check it OUT!!!!

http://mayarecordings.com/news/news.html

wels program is here!!!

Sep.13, 2011

finally… we have been waiting for this… and YES! YES! YES!

the program is amazing!!!! Peter Brötzmann curating the wels unlimited festival : 3 – 6 nov 2011

check it out:

thursday, nov. 3
7pm @ mkh fabrik_ausstellungseröffnung BRÖTZMANN – paintings & objects

9pm @ mkh fabrik_SONORE (BRÖTZMANN / VANDERMARK / GUSTAFSSON)

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friday, nov. 4
2pm @ stadttheater wels / SOLDIER OF THE ROAD (Film von Bernard Josse, 90min, F 2011)

7pm @ alter schl8hof wels

_ CHICAGO TENTET inviting KEIJI HAINO & JOHN TCHICAI

_ MICHIYO YAGI / OKKYUNG LEE / XU FENGXIA

_ PETER BRÖTZMANN / MASAHIKO SATO / TAKEO MORIYAMA

_ JOE MCPHEE / MOKHTAR GANIA / FRED LONBERG-HOLM / MICHAEL ZERANG

_ PETER BRÖTZMANN / MICHIYO YAGI / TAMAYA HONDA

_ ad-hoc-formations

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saturday, nov. 5
12am @ stadttheater wels_ BRÖTZMANN (Film von Jeuckens, Mau, Windus; 80min, D 2011)

2 pm @ soundtheater_ PETER BRÖTZMANN / JASON ADASIEWICZ / SABU TOYOZUMI

3.30 pm @ minoriten_ MATS GUSTAFSSON / DIEB13 / MARTIN SIEWERT

7pm @ alter schl8hof wels

_ KEIJI HAINO SOLO

_ PETER BRÖTZMANN / BILL LASWELL / MOKHTAR GANIA / HAMID DRAKE

_ JEB BISHOP / JOE MCPHEE / MARS WILLIAMS / KENT KESSLER / TAMAYA HONDA

_ HAIRY BONES (BRÖTZMANN / KONDO / MASSIMO PUPILLO / PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE)

_ ad-hoc-formations

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sunday, nov. 6
3pm @ stadtheater wels_FUKUSHIMA PROJECT_CHICAGO TENTET inviting
OTOMO YOSHIHIDE / MICHIYO YAGI / AKIRA SAKATA / TOSHINORI KONDO

7pm @ alter schl8hof wels

_ PETER BRÖTZMANN / ERIC REVIS / NASHEET WAITS

_ VANDERMARK / GUSTAFSSON / PUPILLO / NILSSEN-LOVE / DRAKE

_ FULL BLAST (PETER BRÖTZMANN / MARINO PLIAKAS / MICHAEL WERTMÜLLER)

_ CASPAR BRÖTZMANN MASSAKER

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stage design by bernd klötzer

swedish azz europa tour sep -11

Sep.13, 2011

another swedish azz tour is over… completely mindblowing!

amazing adventures in Serbia, Hungary, Italy and Austria…. thanx all for coming out!!!

check the clips:

http://youtu.be/7Qc9p2yCBEo
http://youtu.be/pV00UU7jDTc
http://youtu.be/zc4ijV2FXa8
http://youtu.be/bAL6vTFFJ5U
http://youtu.be/N5945HlvXxQ
http://youtu.be/q76XOU4K5hs

see ya all soon again //// swedish azz

THE EX & Brass Unbound 2011

Aug.29, 2011

ongoing tour… FULLT ÖS MEDVETSÖS!!!!!!

The EX & Brass Unbound… of EXPLODING quality!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNHP3ro3roE

see u out there!!!!

FIRE – unreleased

Aug.13, 2011

On tour w FIRE this week: portugal , croatia, norway and sweden is getting what they need of slow and loud…

if u cant catch the gigs, listen to the new record or read some reviews from the past weeks of the new FIRE! & Jim O `Rourke LP / CD – release:

BBC / UK

Mats Gustafsson’s Fire! have significantly raised their game since the release of their 2009 debut, You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago. While that collection was a perfectly satisfactory demarcation of the trio’s sprawling, groove-laden template, it never quite caught, ahem, fire. Unreleased?, on the other hand, is a pyro-spewing, laser-radiating monster of a record.

Recorded with the help of guest collaborator Jim O’Rourke in the ex-Sonic Youth man’s new home of Tokyo, it comes tearing out of the traps like the Kraken racing out of his undersea lair prior to a ravaging of ancient Joppa. Offering a far more cohesive collection than its predecessor – the group apparently clearer as to the desired constitution of their extended combustibles – each individual entry forms a finessed study in nervy tension.

Sure, it might be tempting to put this all down to the presence of O’Rourke, but his contributions, such as the Spaghetti Western harmonica on the troublesomely titled By Whom and Why am I Previously Unreleased?, while exquisitely judged, seem limited to that of tonal colouring. No doubt about it, the lion’s share of the plaudits should go to the original trio. Their grinding meaty swagger, rising from smouldering embers, create a tumultuous psychedelic brew, like a slow-burning rogue hybrid of The Necks, Bohren & der Club of Gore and a slew of 70s kraut-rocking acid casualties.

Johan Berthling (bass) and Andreas Werliin (percussion) now comprise an audaciously adept rhythm section, anchoring these expansive, incendiary workouts, while generating enough kinetic zip and flow to propel them through a series of loping, meditative lurches. They manage to strike the perfect balance between grace and malevolence. However, it’s left to Gustafsson himself to ignite the petrol-drenched touch paper, fingers of flame erupting from the scalding bell of his tenor sax, incinerating the stack with a torrent of never-ending napalm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/c5d3

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All About Jazz:

By John Kelman

Managing Editor – Since 2003

Moving from the studio to a live performance at Tokyo’s SuperDeluxe club in the fall of 2010, Fire! both pares down and expands the sonic purview of its 2009 Rune Grammofon debut, You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago. Pared down in that saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, while still tripling on Fender Rhodes and live electronics, sticks solely to the deep-bodied baritone saxophone this time around. Bassist Johan Berthling focuses monolithically on electric bass, eschewing the electric guitar and double-bass of the trio’s debut. But while Gustaffson, Berthling and drummer, Andreas Welin work with a slightly more restricted palette, the addition of guest guitarist/synthesist/harmonicist Jim O’Rourke lends unreleased?‘s four freely improvised pieces a far broader landscape, and a different kind of density.

The trace elements of Fire!’s debut—In a Silent Way-era Miles Davis and hints of Soft Machine in Berthling’s hypnotic, fuzz-toned bass—are gone, as the group’s voice emerges more vividly; linked, perhaps, a little more closely to another of Gustafsson’s projects, The Thing, though that trio, with bassist ingebrigt Håker Flaten} and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, is both inherently more organic and more extreme. Still, Gustafsson—who is only rivaled by Peter Brötzmann (with whom he plays in the German reed man’s Chicago Octet/Tentet) in his ability to fill large buildings with a single, unamplified horn—doesn’t shy away from intense expressionism, especially towards the end of the nine-minute …”please, i am released,” where O’Rourke’s space-aged synth and overdriven guitar octaves create a psychedelic arch over Berthling and Welin’s relentlessly throbbing pulse, as the saxophonist screams with unrelenting abandon.

There aren’t exactly respites like You Liked Me‘s ethereal “But Sometimes I am,” or overt blues references like the Robert Johnson-meets-Captain Beefheart of its brief title track, but there are dynamic ebbs and flows to give this forty-minute set its shape. “by whom and why am i previously unreleased?”—at just over three minutes, the disc’s only track under nine—combines O’Rourke’s effected guitar, acting more as a percussive dovetail to Welin’s toms, and Gustafsson’s extended baritone techniques, tonguing to create his own erratic pulses. As the 17-minute closer, “happy ending borrowing yours,” begins with otherworldly sounds—gradually building in volume, over a tumultuous bottom end of bass and drums, to a howling climax of noise and throbbing electronics—the group ultimately shifts gears towards a visceral 6/4 pulse anchored by Welin’s firm backbeat and Berthling’s persistent ostinato. Viciously hypnotic, it provides a foundation for O’Rourke’s unconventional guitar sonics and upper register multiphonics from Gustafsson, into which the saxophonist gradually introduces live electronics to further broaden his coverage, as Welin strengthens the pulse underneath.

Gustafsson’s never been for the faint-at-heart, but with Fire! he’s come his closest yet to an accessible version of reckless abandon. With the hard rock-edged complexion of Fire! and the addition of O’Rourke to the mix, unreleased? has the potential to appeal to fans of Thurston Moore, early Golden Palominos and a more rhythm-heavy Supersilent, while becoming even more inextricably linked to the more groove-driven aspects of The Thing. For those with extreme dispositions, unreleased? is the perfect catalyst.

hagenfesten is over for this time…

Aug.11, 2011

a new experience….I had a new GREAT experience…

the HAGENFESTEN in the forests of Dala – Floda in Sweden!!!

holy SHIT — this is something else… for the 9th time the crew, Sofia Jernberg (killin vocalist ), Joel Grip (killin bassist) and Niklas Barnö (killin trumpeter) and many other people created a REAL FEAST , a festivalmonster with amazing atmosphere, great bathing in the river, sauna, amazing food , a SUPERWARM atmosphere and really GREAT music… this is a MUST every summer, I tell you!

(the only thing missing was a good recordshop for vinyl… but , what the heck, nobody is perfect…)

chcek it out:

http://www.hagenfesten.se/

and dont miss next year!!!!

there is only a bunch of festivals every year that manage to create such atmosphere AND quality in the programming!!!

(you know who you are…)

THIS IS THE SHIT!!!!!

thanx for this time, see u at the 10th anniversary!

brö fest in wels!!!

Jul.08, 2011

book now… the fest of the year is coming up in november:

opening concert :

DONT MISS!!!!!!!!

www.musicunlimited.at/

vinyl trades list — the big summer trade!!!! june 2011

Jun.23, 2011

the BIG summer trade list of vinyls.

here it is:

http://matsgus.com/archives/category/vinyl/trades

please email mats@matsgus.com with offers…. vinyl for vinyl…..

some heavy BOMBS are offered… including a VERY rare brötzmann casette and some wild 1967 Evam Parker action w Manfred Schoof……

new trades june 2011

Jun.23, 2011

welcome to the new trade list of vinyl.
the big summer trade!!!
some bombs…. and some heavy mint FMP lps…. some mean stuff!
and an extremely rare brötzmann casette!!!!!

check it out and send me an email at:

mats@matsgus.com

offer me vinyltrades in return for what you are interested in and we might have a deal.

rememeber that most of the trades are gone within the first two days after publishing the list…. BUT, there is of course still stuff available form the past lists… scroll down and check them all out!

good luck!

a bomb…..

Henri Chopins very famous and ridicously rare mag for experimental art, text & sound and sound art… with an accompanying 7″ vinyl…. you NEVER see the OU´s…. this is the SHIT to collect!!!!

this is:

Edition OU nr 33

with soundcontributions by great experimentalists Heidseck, chopin, dufrene and wolman on the 7″ and written contributions by ao Chopin and the one and only BRION GYSIN!!!!

highest recomendations! classic stuff!!!!!!!!!!

SORRY TRADED!!

another bomb…a BRÖTZBOMB!!!!!

Felix Dröse – New York Kunsthalle

an extremele rare art edition wiith the works of the great german visual artist Felix Dröse…accompanied by a casette with Peter Brötzmann (!!!!) never issued anywhere else….. ROCKIN MUSIC! and in a beautiful edition box!!!

it doesnt get better then this! in an limited edition of 380 copies and signed by the artists!

You will never see this again….. serious offer please!!!!

Sorry… of course TRADED!!!!!

and the third BOMB of the summerlist…. this is INSANE…… on polish Muza label…..

Manfred Schoof Quintet

playing Oleo…..with a line up of:

Evan Parker (!!!) , Manfrd Schoof, Alex von Schlippenbach, Buschi Niebergall and Han Bennink…. YOU NEED THIS ONE!

this line up has never been credited before… and there is no information on the jacket… but this is what it is!

and its GOOOOOOOOD!!!!!! very very GOOD! one track with all you need…..

serious offers only…..

of course…. TRADED right away….sorry

and some heaaaaaaavy FMP´s:

Manfred Schoof Quintet – The Early Quintet, FMP 0540

amazing music and a stellar line up! jazz / free jazz at its best… this is a forgotten masterpiece!!!!

Niebergall….. a monster…. always!!!!! mint condition

Schlippenbach Quartet – Anticlockwise , Fmp

a KILLER disc…. with the mighty TRIO of all times…. with the extra flavour of Alan Silva…. this is RAW and essential!

music is simply just KILLIN!!!! and in mint condition……

Sclippenbach Quartett – the Hidden Peak , FMP 0410

another Schlippie BOMB… this is european free improvisation at the highest level there is… the mighty TRIO again… this one with the late and great Peter Kowald… no more words necesarry… a MUST have and in mint condition…

Schlippenbach Quartett — Three Nails left, FMP 0210

and… here it is….. one of my all fav records all time… THREE FUCKIN NAILS LEFT…. ooooooh my….

from 1975… this music is kickin serious butt…. and vinyl and jacket is mint…. music is beyond good….

MJT + 3…. with Muhal Richard Abrams…. japanese pressing of CLASSIC early freer jazz on Cadet

second time I found this one for the list…amazing early attempts of freeing the shit up! really great jazz… creative and swingin with the late and great Walter Perkins on drums… he was the MAN! highly recomended!!!!

Leif Elggren – Flown Over by an Old king, Radium

This is the ONE object by the mighty mighty mighty Swedish conceptual artis and sound genius Leif Elggren to have.

very rare to find…. and an amzing example of his visionary art!!! it took me years to find this one… on the great Gothenburg label Radium. just….. FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!

SORRY TRADED!

Sonny Sharrock – Guitar

This is the one guitar player to check out, if you dont have all his stuff already…. there is not many records. he is the one pioneer of WILD guitar playing…. takayanagi and sharrock and you have it all!!!!

this is a very very interesting solo guitar LP… highest recomendations. not the rarest… but KILLIN!!!!!

Peter Brötzmann Group – ALARM FMP 1030

check the line up…. BRÖ, Breuker, frank Wright (!!!), Kondo, bauer, tomlinson, schlippenbach, miller & moholo… no need to talk more about this…

really rare to find these days. and in MINT condition.

If this music doesnt kick yr ass…. nothing will!!!! I mean… Brötzmann and Frank Wright together……..

SORRY TRADED!

Be cool in Munich Part 2, private edtion.

a very very rare edition of Penck free jazz editions…. with a line up of just the cream…. just the cream:

Frank Lowe, Butch Morris, Billy Bang…. and Dennis Charles….. and on top of that the one Phil Minton!!!!!

it is as good as it looks….. still sealed!!!!

and a SUN RA bomb:

Live at Red Creek, Rochester NY

in a very limied run of 100 copies… on a very obscure italian label… something WILD!!!! when did u last time see this one?

and another bomb bomb bomb BOMB!!!!!

Franz Koglmann – Opium for Franz on Pipe Records.

this is IT! one of the rarest free jazz vinyls ALL TIME!

austrian Koglmann with Steve Lacy (!!!) and Bill Dixon (!!!)…. how WILD is that ??? with a hand painted front cover and signed on the back. in excellent condition… this is really something different and amazing! very very rare…. just amazing! with the booklet…..

very serious trade offers please… u will not see this one again… since it will be gone very soon….

SORRY….. VERY SORRY TRADED!!!!!