Two, young guys Lars Greve
(saxophone and clarinet) and August Rosenbaum (piano) travel to Berlin, where
they meet the 69 year old drummer and improviser, Sven-Åke Johansson, who is
Swedish. He has lived in Berlin since 1968, where he collaborated with
significant avant-garde people like Peter Brötzmann and Axel Dörner.
Johansson plays his own homebuilt and specially designed drum kit.
Johansson plays his own homebuilt and specially designed drum kit.
I’ve heard Greve and Rosenbaum in
free jazz projects before and I was prepared to be blow right through the
living room in a cacophony. But no, that wasn’t the deal.
This music behaves like a delicate
piece of abstract art pierced with thin sticks which can fall to the ground at
any time.
Greve, Rosenbaum and Johansson show a
lot of courage in the musical chances they take. They go places where they don’t
know the destination; they go places where they don’t have any destination. Fine, small notes meet up and wonder why they
haven’t met before
This is 40 minutes of undressed and intimate
impro-jazz. It’s fragile and beautiful without anything falling apart. Greve
and Rosenbaum show that the improvisational music is developing in a healthy
way in Denmark.
It’s a very original album and it is
demanding of its listener but you are rewarded with a beautiful experience.
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