For those who are not aware YET, Portuguese CLEAN FEED is one of those record labels which are working as a chronicles of the real changes taking place in the Jazz, and Creative music Avantgarde, in general. This is absolutely priceless work they do, similar to what Labels like, Swiss HAT HUT, (Hathut encompasses the labels hat ART, hatOLOGY, and hat NOIR) and INTAKT are doing. German ECM, JazzWERK or TRAUMTON. American TZADIK, CIMP, AUM Fidelity or Atavistic. French Label Bleu or NATO. British EMANEM, Leo Records, SLAM or INCUS. I can go on and on for long and still miss many who contributed into that titanic work. What matters is that, WE, listeners are aware of them and support them actively by buying their recordings and supporting artist which are going to be A Tomorrow TITANS!
[ March the 10th,2023 release via B. Inspelningar: Elsa Bergman – Playon Crayon ]
release date: 10.03.2023 on B. Inspelningar lebel
In 2018 Elsa Bergman encountered graphic scores in some of the many projects on the potent Stockholm creative music community she’s involved in. As the year evolved she interpreted such works as a member of Per-Åke Holmlander’s Carliot—It’s Never Too Late Orchestra, in performance with the Anthony Braxton Tri-Centric Orchestra, and at a special concert with Mats Gustafsson’s Fire! Orchestra Actions for Free Jazz in Krakow, Poland—where they tackled graphic scores by Krzysztof Penderecki and Bogusław Schaeffer. Indeed, over time
[ Rune Grammofon – 6th of July 2020 release – Hedvig Mollestad – EKHIDNA ]
Norwegian release date: 12.06.2020
Worldwide release date: 03.07.2020
via Rune Grammofon
Eknidna, the latest project from renowned Norwegian guitarist Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen, takes us further than her usual well recognized trio or her fronting performance with The Trondheim Jazz Orchestra. Here, doubled to the sextet band, equally spread between female & male powers with interesting instrumental approach challenges listeners, even those who already took regular trio as a grant. But like everything in life that also didn’t happen by an accident, even if certain amount of time have passed from the start. Lets get to the start then.
[ Rune Grammofon – 6th of March release – Fire!Orchestra – Actions for Free Jazz Orchestra by K.Penderecki ]
release date: 6th of March 2020 on Rune Grammofon
Original score by Krzysztof Penderecki had only been recorded once and as far as I am aware and it was also the only performance of it , luckily for us who didn’t exist there back in time, but now have a chance to listen to this inspirational performance and learn from that as well as understand better how it affected the further evolution of improvised music which we are familiar with today. The new reading from Mats Gustafsson, who also conducts his Fire! Orchestra.