Mats Gustafsson - This Is From the Mouth (February 4, 2022 Catalytic-Sound)

Side A

1. This Is From the Mouth

Recorded, mixed and mastered, Spring, 2015.

Bass Saxophone, Organ, Electronics [Live] – Mats Gustafsson

Drums – Andreas Werliin, David Sandström

Illustration – Patti Jordan

Producer – Johan Berthling

Recorded By, Mixed By, Mastered By – Mikael Werliin

Typography – Jamie Lawson (2)

Illustrations:

Hang-Tail (Biconical 015)

Needlers (Corpus 019)

LP limited to 300 copies. Single-sided picture disc presented in a heavy poly sleeve screen printed front and back.

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The Thing with Barry Guy - Metal! (February 4, 2022 Catalytic-Sound)

Side A

1. Lanthanum

2. Cerium

Side B

1. Praseodymium

2. Neodymium

Side C

1. Promethium

2. Samarium

3. Europium

Side D

1. Gadolinium

2. Terbium

3. Dysprosium

4. Ride The Sky

Recorded live at Saint Catherine's Church, Vilnius, Lithuania on 3rd april, 2011.

Mats Gustafsson (STIM), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (TONO), Paal Nilssen-Love (TONO) & Barry Guy (TONO).

Mixed and mastered at MAMAstudios.

Baritone Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Saxophone [Slide] – Mats Gustafsson

Bass [Left Chanel] – Ingebrigt Håker Flaten

Bass [Right Chanel] – Barry Guy

Co-producer – Valerij Anosov

Composed By – Barry Guy (tracks: A1 to B1, C1 to D3), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (tracks: A1 to B1, C1 to D3), Mats Gustafsson (tracks: A1, A2, B2 to D3), Paal Nilssen-Love (tracks: A1, A2, B2 to D3)

Design – Oskaras Anosovas

Drums – Paal Nilssen-Love

Executive-Producer – Danas Mikailionis

Mixed By, Mastered By, Recorded By – Arūnas Zujus

Producer – Barry Guy, The Thing (2)

The Thing appears through courtesy of Smalltown Superjazzz & Supersound.

Limited edition of 600 records.

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Mats Gustafsson / Lennart Nilsson - Soundfood / Listen Eat Drink (February 4, 2022 Catalytic-Sound)

Recorded at Blue Tower Studios, Gärsnäs, Sweden. Comes with a book by the Swedish legendary concert producer Lennart Nilsson on the relationship between food and music.

Side A

1. Three Courses By Lennart Nilsson [3:43]

Side B

1. Three Courses To Lennart Nilsson [2:58]

Tenor Saxophone – Mats Gustafsson

Recorded By – Olof Madsen

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Mats Gustafsson - Discaholics 7" (February 4, 2022 Catalytic-Sound)

Side A

1. Discaholics

Recorded March 18, 2017 at Studio Elverket, Stockholm

Baritone Saxophone, Sounds [3 Vinyl Killers] – Mats Gustafsson

Mastered By – Lasse Marhaug

Producer – Lasse Marhaug, Mats Gustafsson

Recorded By – Olof Madsen

Vinyl sources:

Oren Ambarchi "Lost Like A Star"

Oren Ambarchi "Stacte Karaoke"

Paal Nilssen-Love "Cut And Bleed"

Paal Nilssen-Love "News From The Junk Yard"

Thurston Moore "Offerings"

Thurston Moore / John Moloney "Acting The Maggot"

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Two Bands and a Legend - Two Bands and a Legend (February 4, 2022 Catalytic-Sound)

1. Who The Fuck

2. The Witch

3. Too Much Fun

4. Tekla Loo

5. Louie Louie

6. You Ain't Gonna Know Me 'Cos You Think You Know Me

7. The Nut

8. Baby Talk

9. I Can't Find My Mind

Bass, Vocals – Christian Engfelt

Co-producer – Joakim Haugland

Cover – Rune Mortensen

Double Bass, Electronics – Ingebrigt Håker Flaten

Drums – Jon Magne Riise*, Paal Nilssen-Love

Guitar, Organ, Theremin, Vocals – Bård Enerstad

Guitar, Vocals – Cato Thomassen

Liner Notes – Thurston Moore

Mastered By – Audun Strype

Mixed By – Cato Salsa (tracks: 1, 3 to 9), Francis Moon (tracks: 1, 3 to 9), Olof Madsen (tracks: 1, 3 to 9), PNL* (tracks: 1, 3 to 9)

Photography By [Photos] – Pål Nordseth

Producer – Cato Salsa Experience, The Thing (2)

Recorded By – Petter Heggli*

Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Electronics – Mats Gustafsson

Tenor Saxophone, Trumpet [Pocket], Vocals – Joe McPhee

Recorded at Grand Sport Studios in March 2005.

Mixed at Grand Sport Studios in May 2005, except "The Witch" which wasn't mixed.

Mastered at Strype Audio in January 2006.

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Thurston Moore / Mats Gustafsson / Stephen O'Malley - Born Without Word / At A Worn (February 4, 2022 Catalytic-Sound)

Side A

1. Born Without Word [14:55]

Side B

1. At A Worn [20:13]

Electric Guitar – Stephen O'Malley, Thurston Moore

Saxophone, Electronics – Mats Gustafsson

Recorded live Nov 12th 2017 at Sonic City, Depart, Kortrijk

Mixed 2018 by Andreas Werliin, Puttarna

Collage: Kosuke Kawamura

Ltd edition 500 LPs with tip on old-style sleeve and obi strip

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Brötzmann / Gustafsson / Nilssen-Love - The Fat Is Gone (November 10, 2021 trost records)

1. Bullets Through Rain 09:57

2. Colours In Action 28:53

3. The Fat Is Gone 22:34

This album was released in 2007 on Smalltown Superjazz

Peter Brötzmann - Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Bass Clarinet

Mats Gustafsson - Baritone Saxophone, Flutophone

Paal Nilssen-Love - Drums, Percussion

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David Grubbs & Mats Gustafsson / Off​-​Road (September 1, 2021 Improved Sequence)

David Grubbs and Mats Gustafsson currently make up 2/3s of The Underflow, the trio with Rob Mazurek, but their history stretches back into the last century, when they crossed paths during a serious Chicago heyday and Mats appeared on Gastr del Sol’s Upgrade & Afterlife.

Off-Road, originally released on CD by Blue Chopsticks in 2002, is Grubbs and Gustafsson’s second of two duo albums, the follow-up to Apertura (1999). Apertura consists of two long improvised duos for harmonium and reeds, making it the slowest, steadiest boil in either participant’s discography. Off-Road finds the two of them forsaking their earlier, near-static m.o. for a shower of digitally re-composed slivers, the metal-on-metal timbre of a saxophone equipped with contact mics, Grubbs’s chiming electric guitar, backstage field recording (a glass-topped table full of bottles dragged along a concrete floor), and Gustafsson’s Pro Rhythm analog synthesizer clipped to the bell of his horn. (The combination of reeds, guitar, and analog electronics seems an eerie precursor to The Underflow.) Turntablist Henry Moore Selder makes a couple of guest appearances marked by sharp rhythmic counterpoint and low-frequency warbles and moans.

Off-Road was recorded in Stockholm immediately following Grubbs and Gustafsson’s Scandinavian tour in February 2002. Those shows were chaotic events that flowed from song to free-jazz freakout to drone tunnel to digital collage to mouthless saxophone and brainless, bruising guitar. Off-Road has a similar range in an even more compact time frame, from the improvised pop tune “Pumpkin Creek” to the fractured, groove-cursed “Three If by Train,” and from the meditative, still surfaces of “Rendezvous up North” to the fire-alarm plunderphonics of “Back Off.” In 2021 Grubbs and Gustafsson put their heads together and decided to revise the track order on Off-Road—hence the present improved sequence. 

Side One:

Pumpkin Creek (3:26)

Three If by Train (1:56)

Rendezvous up North (12:11)

Side Two:

Dystopian Turboprop (5:53)

Skiing + Shooting (4:58)

Back Off (4:54)

FOR DIGITAL please visit: davidgrubbsandmatsgustafsson.bandcamp.com/album/off-road

Mats Gustafsson: fluteophone, tenor saxophone, flageolet, synthesizer, contact mics

David Grubbs: computer, harmonium, electric guitar

Henry Moore Selder: maracas (1), turntables (2,5)

Recorded by Johan Gustafsson 2/20/02 at Grondahl, Stockholm. Mixed by DG and Nicolas Vernhes at the Rare Book Room and Studio 423, Brooklyn. Mastered for reissue by Brian Pyle. Cover photograph by John Flavell. The Land of Cockaigne is an engraving by van der Heyden after a painting by Peter Brueghel.

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Mats Gustafsson & Joachim Nordwall - Shadows of Tomorrow b​/​w The Brain Produces Electrical Waves (May 24, 2021 Astral Spirits)

1. Shadows of Tomorrow

2. The Brain Produces Electrical Waves

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Mats Gustafsson/Joe McPhee/Ingebrigt Håker/Paal Nilssen-Love - The Thing She Knows... (Hat Hut Records)

Anguish - Anguish (RareNoise Records 2018)

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 with 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). 

Recorded in just three days during the summer of 2018 at Faust’s Scheer Studios, located in a former factory perched on the banks of the Danube in Swabia, Germany, near the Swiss border, Anguish stands as a hard-hitting manifesto for the next evolution in the hip-hop legacy. 

From the droning opener, “Vibrations,” fueled by ambient loops and sparked by Gustafsson’s cathartic, blast furnace intensity on tenor, to the slamming, industrial-tinged closer, “Wümme,” Anguish is an iron fist upside the head of complacency. “Cyclical Physical” is the sound of rage with an in-your-face rap from Brooks while the moody title track features a jazzy backdrop that has Gustafsson nimbly shadowing Brooks’ pointed spoken word rap. “Gut Feeling” is a hard-edged noise rock / metal romp with Brooks shouting the combative refrain: “Fuck your frail feelings!” 

The instrumental interlude “Brushes for Leah” is a dark, imposing soundtrack underscored by drummer Werliin’s subtle brushwork while Brooks spits thought-provoking verse with flowing aplomb on the ambient backdrop of “Healer’s Lament.” 

Gustafsson erupts with caustic abandon on the throbbing instrumental “DEW” then blows sinuous lines around Brooks’ vitriolic rap on the low-end industrial groover “A Maze of Decay.” Werliin's thunderous backbeat drives the kinetic closer “Wümme,” a krautrock flavored instrumental named for the rural German town where Faust formed in 1971. 

Will Brooks (dälek) - vocals, SAMPLR, Eventide/Elektron effect pedals, 1 note on MOOG rogue, 3 notes on grand piano

Mats Gustafsson - tenor saxophone,

live - electronics, 3 notes on grand piano

Hans Joachim Irmler - synthesizers, vocals

Mike Mare - guitar, electronics, synthesizer

Andreas Werliin - drums, percussion

Tracklisting:

Vibrations

Cyclical/Physical

Anguish

Gut Feeling

Brushes for Leah

Healer’s Lament

DEW

A Maze of Decay 

Wümme 

Recorded and mixed by Johannes Buff

Assistant Engineer: Jan Wagner

Recorded at Faust Studios

Scheer, Germany July 14 - 19, 2018

Mixed at END NOTE

Bayonne, Basque Country July 23 - 27, 2018

Spiritual counsel - LENNI

Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper

Mastered at Turtle Tone Studios, NYC, NY

All songs composed by Will Brooks, Mats Gustafsson, Hans Joachim Irmler, Mike Mare, and Andreas Werliin

All song published by Mayan Ruins Music (SESAC), Mike Mare Music (BMI),

All lyrics by Will Brooks, Mayan Ruins Music (SESAC) except “Healer’s Lament” by Kamau Daáood.

Executive Producer for RareNoiseRecords:

Giacomo Bruzzo

Design & Layout by Paul Romano

Sculpture by Darla Jackson

ZU & Mats Gustafsson - How to Raise an Ox (TROST RECORDS 2018)

Trost presents the first vinyl edition of How To Raise An Ox by Zu and Mats Gustafsson. Initially released on CD in 2005 by Atavistic. Features new cover artwork. Long-running intense jazz/noise-core band Zu from Italy teams up with Viking-saxophonist extraordinaire Gustafsson (The Thing, Fire!). Mastering by Andy Moor (The Ex) and Colin McLean.

1. Over a Furnace 01:46

2. How to Raise an Ox 06:56

3. Eating the Landscape 04:17

4. The King Devours his Sons 07:21

5. Bring the War back Home 01:57

6. Meat Eater, Solar Bird 06:13

7. Palace of Reptiles 03:02

8. Beasts only Die to be Born 04:06

9. The Tiger Teaches the Lamb 04:50

Luca Tommaso Mai - baritone saxophone

Mats Gustafsson - baritone saxophone

Massimo Pupillo - bass

Jacopo Battaglia - drums

Mastered by Andy Moor

Remastered by Lorenzo Stecconi

Artwork by Scarful

Live: THE THING | Ronnie Scotts | 21st October 2018

THE THING -  Ronnie Scotts

Sunday 21st October 2018

Doors: 6.30pm

Venue: Ronnie Scotts, 47 Frith Street, Soho, LONDON, W1D 4HT

Tickets: £12.50 - £27.50

MATS GUSTAFSSON tenor, soprano saxophone

INGEBRIGT HÅKER FLATEN double and el. bass

PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE drums

Mixing jazz with noise, avant-rock and punk, the music of The Thing has been described as ‘garage-jazz’ and ‘impro-punk’. The band, from Norway and Sweden, was established early 2000 and has grown into one of the most successful and hardest working free jazz trio’s around, traveling all over the world. They have performed with guests such as Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark, Otomo Yoshihide, Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore, Terrie Ex, Peter Evans, Neneh Cherry and James ‘Blood’ Ulmer.

This Summer The Thing release Again

Sofia Jernberg / Mats Gustafsson / Kjetil Møster / Anders Hana / Greg Saunier - Svårmod Och Vemod Är Värdesinnen (RareNoise Records 2018)

When Norwegian baritone saxophonist Kjetil Møster joined forces in the studio with Swedish baritone sax burner Mats Gustafson, Norwegian noise-jazz guitarist Anders Hana (MoHa!, Ultralyd, Noxagt), versatile, powerhouse drummer Greg Saunier (of the San Francisco-based avant-rock band Deerhoof, who participated in the album, but has now been replaced by Børge Fjordheim of Cloroform) and the extraordinary Ethiopian-born experimental singer Sofia Jernberg, the resulting sonic maelstrom was so fresh and ferocious, so daring and audacious, so darkly apocalyptic that The End seemed like the only name for this band of rebels. 

Their uncompromising debut on RareNoise, Svårmod Och Vemod Är Värdesinnen (a title whose approximate translation from Swedish into English could be stated as “Dark melancholy and sadness are senses to be valued”), is delivered with sledgehammer authority by the subversive crew. 

The two-baritone onslaught of Møster and Gustafsson with the addition of Hana’s baritone guitar provides a low-end assault on Svårmod Och Vemod Är Värdesinnen that feels like a gut-punch to complacency. 

“The double baritone has lots of raw power, which is a big part of what this music is all about,” says Møster, who has previously appeared on two RareNoise Records releases, Jü Meets Møster and Reflections In Cosmo. “We try to break through to the raw senses, the expressions of energy that wants to burst but never does.” 

“We have talked about such a collaboration for many years,” adds Gustafsson, who previously appeared on RareNoise releases by Slobber Pup (Pole Axe) and in collaboration with Japanese noisemaker Merzbow (the Cuts series). “And when Giacomo of RareNoise offered us the chance we grabbed it immediately, of course. We just needed to really put together the most kickin' band ever.” 

With Jernberg , Hana, Saunier (now Fjordheim), they have put together a dream team on Svårmod Och Vemod Är Värdesinnen. “Now that we have The End as a working unit it feels extremely exciting to see where we can take the music together,” says Gustafsson. “It’s amazing for me to play alongside Mats’ boundless energy,” adds Møster. “He has revolutionized articulations of saxophone playing and has been one of my big influences ever since I heard The Thing’s self titled album from 2001.” 

Add the potent contributions of Hana and Saunier to the mix and you have a combustible crew capable of nuanced ambient expression with Jernberg’s ethereal vocals floating over the top and hellacious crescendos fueled by her intense banshee wailing. 

“Anders is one of the most creative guitar players I have ever heard,” says Gustafsson. “He stopped playing guitar seven years ago but Kjetil and me convinced him to pick it up again to join this group, which he happily agreed to. He ROCKS!” 

Møster adds “Anders and me have driven thousands of kilometres together all over Eastern and Western Europe in old tour vans playing numerous concerts with Ultralyd, which released five albums, most of them on Rune Grammofon. He’s a very unique player.” 

Hana’s chainsaw guitar work, reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix’s noise guitar explorations on “EXP” from Axis: Bold As Love, fuels the dark opener Svårmod (Troubled Mind), which also introduces The End’s muscular and imposing two-bari sound. Hanna’s repetitive guitar riff provides a catchy hook on the Captain Beefheart-like Vemod (Sad Mind), underscored by Saunier’s polyrhythmic drummer and featuring Jernberg’s freewheeling wordless vocals. 

The epic Translated Slaughter, which sees Jernberg whispering/talking Gustafsson’s lyrics at the ethereal opening, gradually builds to a frantic crescendo that has the singer wailing with cathartic abandon over the top. Jernberg repeats her riveting performance on Don’t Wait in which she once again recites/sings Gustafsson’s cryptic lyrics. 

“Text, music, art…it should all be read and listened to in open ways and manners,” says the composer. “It is not up to me to explain, really. It is up to the listener/reader to understand, or try to understand. Or at least to ask the questions to find out more. All creative art and music should point out new doors, not open them up. To open a door, you have to do it yourself. We can’t do it for you. So the lyrics pretty much speak for themselves, especially in ‘Don’t Wait.’ That message should be pretty obvious for anyone.” 

Møster’s Both Sides Out has a particularly dark, almost requiem kind of feel to it, which he acknowledges. “Requiem is a good association,” he says. “What I had in mind was actually some kind of mourning for the state of mind that the western world has entered post-Trump. In the lyrics I am Trump’s psychoanalyst, letting him pour out his inner feelings so he can stop being so tense and hard. I think the blood flow of the society is being strangled by face masks and ‘violation’ of unnecessary rights.” 

With a discography numbering over 150 records, Gustafsson explains what his latest RareNoise release represents to him: “Just sheer joy of sharing ideas and music together. We had time to rehearse and to play three gigs before jumping into the studio – that was worth a lot for us because I feel that everything really fell into the right place for us in the studio. The music we recorded is really a wet dream of favorite influences to bring together for me. And I think me and Kjetil share the most essential sources and inspirational platforms here. We wanted elements of free jazz, noise, alt rock and more to blend and create something new. And it all led to a music that, at least me, I have never heard before.” 

“We are never into creating a special mood in the music,” maintains Gustafsson, who is also member of bands The Thing, Fire! and Nu Ensemble. “That is up to the listener to create or hear. We don’t entertain, we don’t illustrate. We play music. New music. I don’t wanna analyze it too much here. Everyone should listen freely and think and act freely upon hearing it all. It should all be open.” 

Regarding the translation of the The End’s album title, Møster says: 

‘To me it says something about appreciating difficulties, that we don’t necessarily have to please each other all the time, that expressions that go against the grain and cause friction are valuable too.” 

Those renegade expressions are readily apparent on Svårmod Och Vemod Är Värdesinnen, The End’s formidable RareNoise debut.

SOFIA JERNBERG : VOICE

MATS GUSTAFSSON : BARITONE AND TENOR SAX, LIVE ELECTRONICS

KJETIL MØSTER : BARITONE AND TENOR SAX, ELECTRONICS

ANDERS HANA : BARITONE GUITAR

GREG SAUNIER : DRUMS AND VOICE

1. Svårmod

2. Vemod

3. Translated Slaughter

4. Don’t Wait

5. Rich And Poor

6. Both Sides Out

1,2 composed by Hana and Gustafsson

3 composed by The End

4 composed by Gustafsson

5,6 composed by Møster

Lyrics on 3, 4 by Gustafsson

Lyrics on 6 by Møster

Recorded jan 14/15 2018 at Duper Studios, Bergen

Sound Engineer Jørgen Træn

Mixed Feb 2018 at Duper Studios, Bergen by Jørgen Træn, Kjetil Møster, Anders Hana

Mastered Feb 2018 at Duper Studios by Jørgen Træn

Produced by TheEnd

Cover Image Svårmod Och Vemod Är Värdesinnen by Edward Jarvis.

Words by Harry Martinson, taken from the poem ‘Svårmodet’ from the poetry collection ‘Passad’ published by Bonniers (1945)

© + ℗ RareNoiseRecords 2018

AALY Trio + Ken Vandermark - Hidden in the Stomach (SILKHEART RECORDS 2018)

Recorded in an excellent Stockholm studio during December 1996, AALY TRIO + KEN VANDERMARK features Mats Gustafsson and Ken Vandermark on reeds, together with bassist Peter Janson and drummer Kjell Nordeson. AALY TRIO has been in existence for a number of years, consistently playing exciting music. This is their debut on disc and it is quite a major event, particularly since they are joined by another significant contributor to new jazz improvisation in the shape of Ken Vandermark. The music played by the quartet is free improvisation but their control is no empathic and cohesive that the music almost sounds arranged. Extraordinary. 

"Paul Valéry said poetry is hidden in the stomach, you're obsessed by it, never quite sure of it, but know it's there and want to bring it out." 
William Baziotes 

In a debate with a friend over the relative qualities of Chaim Soutine and Piet Mondrian, William Baziotes argued that "...looseness of execution [is] no virtue in itself...." This statement actually says a good bit about Baziotes, a painter often grouped with the abstract expressionists, but out of step with them, preferring orderly forms - never straying completely from figuration - over the drizzled, slashed and flung pigments of action-painters like Jackson...  more

1. Structure à la Mallé 13:34

2. Why I Don't Go Back 10:14

3. Song for Che 09:00

4. Unknown Title 08:27

5. Albumblatt Again 01:47

6. Ghosts / Spirits 11:56

Mats Gustafsson tenor sax, baritone sax (right channel)

Ken Vandermark tenor sax, clarinet, bass-clarinet (left channel)

Peter Janson bass

Kjell Nordeson drums, percussion

Joel Futterman - 'Kidd' Jordan Quintet: Nickelsdorf Konfrontation (SILKHEART RECORDS 2018)

"For lovers of this music, here is a disc with a definitive place reserved for it, a very lofty place." 

Gustave Cerutti, Improjazz, October 1996 

"(Futterman) can zip out those tone clusters, which have given him a reputation as a Taylorite, but there is much variation in density – sometimes on this CD the clusters metamorphose into quiet little sprinkles in the top octave of the piano. His ability to move from keys to strings and back again continues to impress. Co-leader Edward 'Kidd' Jordan's duet with Futterman on Soul Mates is an excellent sample of his art; he always counterbalances his harshest outpourings with heartfelt lyricism. Elsewhere the music fares best when Jordan is setting the tone, as in the balladic first half of Nickelsdorf Summit, Part Two. Even when the proceedings begin to babble in tongues à la late-period Coltrane, his line is readily discernable and always coherent. Alvin Fielder contributes mobile drumming in the tradition of Ed Blackwell; just check out what he does on the tom-toms, and savor the solo that opens his piece in honor of Vernell Fournier (another key member of the New Orleans drumming fraternity). 

Robert L. Campbell, Cadence, April 1997 

Nat Hentoff wrote the following in his liner notes for...  more

1. Hear with You 01:23

2. Soul Mates 09:03

3. Meeting Place 06:43

4. Nickelsdorf Summit: I. 07:55

5. Nickelsdorf Summit: II. 07:58

6. Nickelsdorf Summit: III. 03:17

7. Nickelsdorf Summit: IV. 06:48

8. Nickelsdorf Summit: V. 05:24

9. Nickelsdorf Summit: VI. 05:55

10. Nickelsdorf Summit: VII. 06:51

11. Fournier 05:18

12. Going with You 01:53

Joel Futterman piano, curved soprano saxophone, Indian flute

Edward 'Kidd' Jordan tenor saxophone

Mats Gustafsson tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone

Barry Guy acoustic bass

Alvin Fielder drums

Catalytic-Sound: Keep Your Options Open II (Option Mixtape 2017) CATALYTIC SOUND 2018

In celebration of the 2018 OPTION season, Experimental Sound Studio has released a special, limited edition mixtape CD that highlights some of the best improvisers working today from around the world. This compilation showcases the breadth and diversity of improvised and creative music with rising starts like Lea Bertucci, Katinka Kleijn, Ben LaMar Gay, Matchess, The Few and Charmaine Lee as well as veterans of free jazz (Mats Gustafsson, Antonio Borghini, Tim Daisy, Jeremiah Cymerman, Curt Newton, and Ingebrigt Håker Flaten). These live sets from the 2017 OPTION season were beautifully mixed and mastered by our head engineer, Alex Inglizian. By purchasing a mixtape, you are supporting Experimental Sound Studio, the OPTION programming, and keeping creative music alive and thriving in Chicago. 

1. Mats Gustafsson, Antonio Borghini - Option 1 08:30

2. Katinka Kleijn - Option 2 08:20

3. Jeremiah Cymerman - Option 3 06:52

4. The Few - Option 4 06:35

5. Charmaine Lee - Option 5 06:56

6. Curt Newton, Ben Lamar Gay - Option 6 05:07

7. Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten - Option 7 09:14

8. Lea Bertucci, Matchess - Option 8 10:42

All performances records at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago IL 

Engineered by Alex Inglizian with assistance by Ralph Loza. 

Produced by Ken Vandermark, Andrew Clinkman, and Tim Daisy. 

Artwork & Design by Federico Peñalva. 

All proceeds go to the Option Series and the musicians involved in this mixtape.

Mats Gustafsson / John Russell / Raymond Strid - Birds (2018)

Recorded and mixed on August/06/2011 at Hagen Festen 2011, Dala Floda

Mastered April/01/2012 at Norlings Rör, Heby

Released by Den, 2012

1. The Earth as the Sun and the Ravens are Watching 43:18

2. The Birds. They Fly as They Want, Don't They? 04:34

Mats Gustafsson - soprano, baritone saxophone

John Russell - guitar

Raymond Strid - drums

The Thing - Mono (2018)

1. Viking 08:52

2. Alfie's Theme 06:15

3. Bruremarsj 03:48

4. Triple Fox 08:57

5. Silver Slipper 02:24

Recorded 31st January - 1st February in MONO at Headgap Studios, Melbourne, Australia.

Mastered at 14th April 2011 at Chicago Mastering Service.

Released February 6, 2018.

Mats Gustafsson: Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: Bass

Paal Nilssen-Love: Drums

Rune Mortensen: Design

Joakim Haugland: Executive-producer

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Bob Weston: Mastering

The Thing: Producer

Casey Rice: Recorded

Neneh Cherry & The Thing - The Cherry Thing Remixes (2018)

Original tracks recorded at Harder Sound Studios, London, England, and Atlantis Studios, Stockholm, Sweden. 

Original tracks appear on the album Neneh Cherry & The Thing "The Cherry Thing" (STS229LP/CD).

1. What Reason Could I Give (Remix By Kim Hiorthøy) 04:46

2. Dream Baby Dream (Remix By Four Tet) 08:45

3. Accordion (Remix By Hortlax Cobra) 04:51

4. What Reason Could I Give (Remix By Carmen Villain) 04:35

5. Accordion (Remix By Jim O'Rourke) 06:11

6. Cashback (Remix By Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas) 09:54

7. Sudden Moment (Remix By Merzbow) 08:22

8. Golden Heart (Remix By Nymph) 05:00

9. Dirt (Remix By Christof Kurzmann) 06:01

10. Golden Heart (Poole Blount Legacy Dub) (Remix By Lasse Marhaug) 06:40

Performed by Neneh Cherry & The Thing: Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Mats Gustafsson, Neneh Cherry, Paal Nilssen-Love 

Mastering: Chris Sansom 

Kim Hiorthøy: Design