This trio’s singularity has stood out from the start. That’s not a given for a piano-bass-drums trio; there are looming giants who have done standard-setting work with it, and legions more who have turned it into cliches known to those whose familiarity with jazz begins and ends at brunch. But as Space, pianist Lisa Ullén, bassist Elsa Bergman and drummer Anna Lund project a collective identity in which each player’s contributions merit appreciation, but they all make their marks most strongly felt by contributing to acts of instantaneous collective composition.
Ullén, Bergman and Lund first convened as the rhythm section for Anna Högberg Attack, where they shared (and still do) space with three assertive horn players. They recorded their first album in 2021 at Fylkingen, which is to Stockholm what Café Oto is to London, Pioneer Works is to New York, and Elastic Arts and Constellation/Links Hall are to Chicago; not just a venue, but a supportive space for diverse forward-facing arts. Made two years later, Embrace The Space is their second recording, and first in a studio. During that time, they gigged fairly often, and continuous performance has fostered an evolution in their sound away from stratification.
Although one instrument often comes to the fore, soloing isn’t really the point of Embrace The Space. On “All At Once,” the piano draws abruptly shifting lines in the foreground. But tune into the other players and you’ll hear the bass tracing bold counter-lines while the drums create a ceaselessly changing complement to the other two instruments. When the bass and drums drop out for a moment, it’s not so much to create a place for Lund to show her stuff as it is a momentary moderation of intensity folded into a fabric of change. While Bergman states the opening of “Bleach” without company, her initial statement is like a key unlocking everything that will follow. And when Ullén briefly mutes a few notes mid-passage later in the same tune, their truncated decay completes the drumming. In such moments, the ensemble’s commitment to making music that is complete via spontaneous means is what comes to the fore.
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NORANTA-DOS / Reprensió, ingravidesa i llangardaixos
Temporada 4 / Programa 2
Data d’emissió: 07/10/20
ESCOLTA’L: mixcloud / ivoox
La música deconstruïda, rocambolesca, fosca i sense gaires veus pren el protagonisme en el bloc de novetats del programa d’aquesta setmana. A més, parlem amb Lluci Rostra (H-Records) sobre l’edició que el segell reusenc ha fet del Polygondwanald de King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. Finalment, en la secció Territori d’ultramar, visitem un país de l’Amèrica Central.
Golden Offence Orchestra, Ode to Pauline Oliveros: To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in recognition to their desperation, Composed by Pauline Oliveros, Adaptation by Golden Offence Orchestra, Recorded by Mats Erlandsson, David Granström and Maria W Horn in Stockholm, 2013. XKatedral, Stockholm, August 23, 2017
Pan-Scan Ensemble - Air and Light - free jazz nonet on PNL Records
releases March 3, 2017
HISPID 007 / PNL035
Co-released by Hispid Recordings and PNL Records.
All music by Pan-Scan Ensemble (TONO/STIM/KODA)
Lotte Anker – soprano, alto and tenor saxophone
Anna Högberg – alto saxophone
Julie Kjær – alto saxophone, flute
Thomas Johansson – trumpet
Goran Kajfes – trumpet
Emil Strandberg – trumpet
Sten Sandell – piano
Paal Nilssen-Love – drums and percussion
Ståle Liavik Solberg – drums and percussion
Recorded live in concert on December 20th 2016 by Stig Gunnar Ringen at Blow Out, Mir, Oslo, Norway.
Mixed and mastered by Lasse Marhaug.
Photo by Tine Hvidsten.
Cover by Lasse Marhaug.
Special thanks to Øyvind Brungot Dahl, Andreas Drevland, Tine Hvidsten, Kari Grete Jacobsen, Stig Gunnar Ringen.
Back in there. Lots of new music in this week’s show. It’s all on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/mosurock/heathen-disco-with-doug-mosurock-show-212-7-june-2020/
Tracklist below:
Art Ensemble of Chicago - People in Sorrow (pt. 2)
Anna Högberg Attack - Tjuv
Jim White and Marisa Anderson - Gathering
The Terminals - Edie
Lynn Blessing - Emerald River
Nico - Little Sister
Choir Boy - Complainer
Sonic Boom - I Feel a Change Coming On
Tim Stine Trio - Object
No Age - Smoothie
No Trend - Teen Love
Munehiro Narita - Human Nature
Pailhead - Don't Stand in Line
CP/BW - A Thing That Thinks
Run the Jewels - The Ground Below
Chad Taylor Trio - Matape
Laurine Frost - Seeing No Ghost
Bailter Space - The State
Public Enemy - Contract on the World Jam/Brothers Gonna Work it Out
no question this week- wlur airs the four hours of no love for ned at 8pm tonight! new show followed by last week's show at 10pm, shown below and streaming at your convenience!
no love for ned on wlur – august 5th, 2022 from 8-10pm
artist // track // album // label
the beach boys // you're so good to me // summer days (and summer nights!!) // capitol
ducks limited featuring jane inc. // in between days // in between days digital single // carpark
cat apostrophe // broken // lifelong amateurism // everything sucks
les salvatges // penjar la guitarra // el caliu i la cendra // discos pinya
the web of lies // crossed arms // nude with demon // wrong speed
the jim carroll band // tension // earl’s closet: the lost archive of earl mcgrath, 1970-1980 compilation // light in the attic
the rubs // i don't wanna wait // dust // hozac
cupid and the stupids // what a way to die // ninety-nine ways to fix a broken heart cassette // spared flesh
today's hits // the sun's 4 you // twenty something teenager // canata
color green // ill fitting suit // color green // org music
hiss golden messenger // mama tried // wise eyes- live at the neptune in seattle on february 25th, 2022 // merge
the a's // swing and turn jubilee // fruit // psychic hotline
wild up // joy boy // julius eastman, volume two- joy boy // new amsterdam
cc5 // give the drummer some // algo por toda la familia // studio kvastis
yusef lateef // 1984 // 1984 // impulse!
lisa ullén and anna högberg // step up a second (excerpt) // step up a second // disorder
iceberg // harland wolff blues // final thaw // astral spirits
moor mother featuring black quantum futurism and mary lattimore // umzansi // jazz codes // anti
smino featuring bari, jean deaux and noname // krash kourse // blkswn // downtown
sharada shashidhar // messages // rahu cassette // leaving
slauson malone // smile #6 (see page 198 and 158) // vergangenheitsbewältigung (crater speak) // grand closing
steve lacy // helmet // gemini rights // rca
superorganism // crushed.zip // world wide pop // domino
beabadoobee // see you soon // beatopia // dirty hit
the happy somethings // forward now // lollipop licks ep // (self-released)
hobby farm // sandpit // braeside // osborne again
the reds, pinks and purples // i heard your voice // finding a ghost in your bed ep // slumberland
Lisa Ullén / Elsa Bergman / Anna Lund — Space (Relative Pitch)
Space by Ullén/Bergman/Lund Trio
Some record labels come at you with a look, or a sound, or a scene to push; Relative Pitch brings a mission. The New York-based imprint, which has a release schedule packed enough to make Clean Feed and Astral Spirits nervous, reaches past its locale to point out artists that you might miss.
Take this trio, for example. Swedish improvisers Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman and Anna Lund can’t exactly be called newcomers. Ullén has been playing piano in improvisational and theatrical settings since the 1990s, and making records since 2006. Bassist Bergman and drummer Lund have each been on the scene for several years, and all three of them can be heard together in Anna Högberg’s Attack! But to know all that, it would really help to be in Stockholm, or at least Scandinavia. Space is not only their first album as a trio, but a rare occasion for any of them to be on a record released in the USA.
Their sound is steeped in a half century of harmonically mindful but free-flowing jazz, reaching back to Paul Bley’s sides for E.S.P. The musicians don’t jockey for solo space. Each woman seems to be thinking about how to contribute to the group’s music, either by putting a supportive shoulder behind another’s efforts, or finding a contrasting accent that makes things more vivid. And while Ullén occasionally mutes a string, there’s otherwise not a lot of extended technique in the trio’s music. The pianist’s melodies seem to arise out of a layers of rhythm, either her own or her partners’. Lund’s cymbals are like steam, hot and propulsive, and Bergman’s fleet plucking manages to work at an angle to the piano’s linear flow, taking the long way around, and yet manages to head it off at the pass. Propulsive and varied, the ensemble has a sound all its own.
Golden Offence Orchestra, Ode to Pauline Oliveros: To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in recognition to their desperation, Composed by Pauline Oliveros, Adaptation by Golden Offence Orchestra, Recorded by Mats Erlandsson, David Granström and Maria W Horn in Stockholm, 2013. XKatedral, Stockholm, August 23, 2017