Format: CD, Album
Performer: Mats Gustafsson & Paul Lovens
Album: Nothing To Read
Year: 1991
Label: Blue Tower Records
Catalog#: BTCD03
Country: Sweden
Genre: Jazz
Style: Free Improvisation
Quality: Flac
Size: 218.7 MB
Mats Gustafsson stepped onto the international scene with this album.
In Stockholm young jazz musicians began to meet at The Blue Tower (Blå Tornet, a shop for second-hand books and records which has now changed its name to Andra böcker och Skivor), whose Friday sessions, known as "Improvised Fridays", soon became a musical meeting-place of international standard. Many critics consider that Mats Gustafsson's and Paul Loven's "Nothing to read" (Blue Tower Records BTCD 03), which was recorded during a number of Improvised Fridays during 1990 and 1991, is one of the finest records of free improvised jazz in existence! This encounter with percussionist Paul Loven had a significant effect on Mats Gustafsson's artistic development. Since then he has widened his musical horizons to include Germany, England, Holland and America. He has also developed a close collaboration with an increasing number of top rank musicians, including bassist Barry Guy, violinist Philipp Wachsmann, bassist Günter Christmann, percussionist Michael Zerang, and more recently saxophonist Peter Brötzmann.
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The meeting in 1990 between Mats Gustafsson and percussionist Paul Lovens turned out to be a high point in the development of free improvisational music. The jam session occurred during an Improvised Friday event at the Blå Tornet. With unheard of concentration the two built up tones, sounds, musical sequences never heard before — a performance that wrote music on completely blank paper. There is good reason for counting these duo-sessions between 1990 and 1991 among the masterpieces of improvisational music. Mats Gustafsson stepped onto the international scene with this album. Titled Nothing to read the album was released by Blue Tower Records (BTCD 03) after the company had moved from Drottninggatan to Rörstrandsgatan and changed its name to Andra Böcker och Skivor (Other/Second Books and Records). However, moving did not diminish its importance as a playing site for improvisational music. This became the place where Sven-Åke Johansson, Sainkho Namchylak, Jaap Blonk, Eugene Chadbourne, Roger Turner, Michael Zerang and many, many more would meet and play with Swedish musicians. It became a contact point that played a leading role during the 90s not only in the development of Swedish improvisational music, but in my strong opinion even internationally. At this time the energy came not only to Sweden, but even from.
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Paul Lovens somehow epitomises the free drummer/percussionist who is not there to lay down the beat and kick everyone else into action but to listen, colour, contribute, guide, and occasionally direct, the overall cooperative sound. In concert one cannot fail to be moved by his intensity and concentration and there is an overiding feeling that even the most random events are somehow planned in time. In this respect, there is a nice irony that on the Nothing to read CD with Mats Gustafsson, Lovens describes his kit as consisting of 'selected and unselected drums and cymbals'. Miking seems to be a problem at times with some recordings giving him undue prominence and others insufficient.
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Mats Gustafsson /Saxophone [Sopranino, Soprano, Tenor, Fluteophone], Flute
Paul Lovens /Drums, Cymbal, Saw
Tracklist
1.I (16:30)
2.II (6:59)
3.III (22:28)
4.V (5:51)
5.VIII (4:38)
6.IX (5:45)
7.X (4:01)
8.XI (7:30)
All recorded in concerts at Antikvariat Bla Tornet.
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