Katzen Kapell - дискография

Released: 1994, 1998, 2007
Style: Tango / Jazz / Avant-Garde
Country: Sweden
Quality: MP3, разное качество

Одна из самых интересных шведских экспериментальных команд, говорят — в музыке группы можно услышать влияние Пьяццоллы, Заппы и Стравинского (по моему — не врут). Каждый альбом — шедевр с солирующим аккордеоном и скрипкой, на стыке танго, шведского фольклора, джаза, авангарда — да и много еще чего. С битрэйтом пока не богато, ну что-же — есть повод устроить в будущем репост с повышением качества. А уж музыка группы того стоит, она очень красива, поверьте.

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Squeeze box is front and center in this diverse Swedish band whose experimental sound is inspired by Piazzolla, Zappa and Stravinsky. Catharina Backman has a great excuse for playing the accordion. "They forced me to," says the founder and leader of the eclectic Swedish band Katzen Kapell. "I played the piano but was touring with a small circus, and they said, 'You won't have this job unless you learn the accordion.' "

In 1986, after a couple of seasons with Varieté Vauduvill, Backman got together in Stockholm with a few former fellow music students and formed Katzen Kapell. (The name was inspired by the Katzenjammer Kids comics but also derives from the Swedish words for cat and ensemble.)

By then, Backman had changed her tune about the squeeze box. "I didn't even like the instrument," she said in a recent midnight telephone conversation from Sweden, "until I heard the bandoneon player from Argentina, Astor Piazzolla." Upon listening to the master of tango nuevo in 1984, Backman recalled, "I just thought, 'I'm in heaven.' The music was so beautiful, so tender, so aggressive, so humoristic, so rhythmic. It really appealed to me. I couldn't copy it, but I'm really inspired by it."

In Katzen Kapell, Backman's passion for Piazzolla plays against keyboardist-composer Magnus Andersson Lagerqvist's fascination with Frank Zappa and Igor Stravinsky. Add a classical violinist (Eva Lindal), acoustic double bassist (Gustaf Hielm), rock-influenced drummer (Erik Hammarström), and jazz-inspired vibraphonist and percussionist (Kjell Nordeson) and you have a band that Backman says appeals to "mixed audiences, from teenagers to very old people."

In an e-mail exchange, vibist Nordeson, who divides his time between Stockholm and San Francisco, noted that Katzen Kapell plays "all kinds of venues — jazz clubs, art venues, contemporary music series, concert halls, rock clubs. I have the impression that audiences can easily relate to our music in many ways." Nordeson joined the group in 1991. He has his own ambivalence about the instrument he plays. "I have some kind of love-hate relationship with the vibraphone," he said. "I love its potential for creating melody and harmony, but am often frustrated by its unchangeable pitch. That feeds a need to override the instrument and avoid its idiomatic cliches."

Katzen Kapell has proved a perfect vehicle for such experimentation. "The band manages to stay away from too academic an approach, and nourishes a closeness to an alternative prog-punk tradition," Nordeson said, "despite the fact that Catharina has gone through seven years of university studies in classical composition."

With three CDs to its credit, including the new "Si Tu Veux," Katzen Kapell is only now making its U.S. debut — four shows in the Bay Area pivoting around an invitation from Other Words, the fifth annual San Francisco International Poetry Festival. At the Swedish American Hall Sunday — and Wednesday at Stanford University's Wallenberg Hall — the band will accompany actress Sara Lindh reciting lyrics by Swedish poet Bodil Malmsten.

Katzen Kapell's compositions and improvisations now draw on dance hybrids from North Africa, the Middle East and the Asian subcontinent, as well as European folk music and modern film scores. The sound should play well in San Francisco, birthplace of groups like Tin Hat and Tango No. 9, because, as Backman said, "the music fits in everywhere and nowhere."

Derek Richardson, San Francisco Chronicle

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* Catharina Backman — accordion & vocals
* Eva Lindal — violin
* Magnus Andersson Lagerqvist — keyboards & vocals
* Kjell Nordeson — marimba, vibraphone & percussion
* Gustaf Hielm — acoustic bass guitar
* Erik Hammarström — drums, glockenspiel & percussion

Katzen Kapell (1994)

Released: 1994
Quality: MP3, VBR ~256
Size: 99 Mb (3% recovery info)

Track listing:

1. Moustique (02:16)
2. Hotell kom & hjälp mig (05:12)
3. Hingsten II (05:24)
4. Sixac (07:10)
5. Hingsten I (04:30)
6. Hurobas Tango (03:21)
7. Diktatorn (04:21)
8. Ålkvinnans Bekännelser (08:37)
9. Sanna & Pete (06:42)
10. Den Store (06:04)

Alla Hatar Min Man (1998)

Released: 1998
Quality: MP3, CBR 256
Size: 97 Mb (3% recovery info)

Track listing:

1. Alla hatar min man (live) (04:18)
2. Pälsdjuret (05:20)
3. Nico (02:48)
4. Nadja (02:41)
5. Han blev sissådär (04:48)
6. De tusen assistenterna (03:54)
7. Isen (01:46)
8. Trixon (06:00)
9. Magens rundning (live) (07:18)
10. Ålkvinnan vänder om (13:42)

Si Tu Veux (2007)

Released: 2007
Quality: MP3, CBR 192
Size: 54 Mb (3% recovery info)

Track listing:

1. Bukarest (06:56)
2. Dorleac (06:27)
3. Si Tu Veux (06:09)
4. Familjen (02:27)
5. Rävspel (04:48)
6. När du insåg (05:12)
7. Taxin (06:30)