Artist: Mats Gustafsson
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Hidros 3
Year: 2004
Tracks: 9
Swedish reeds participant and improviser Mats Gustafsson's protracted saxophone techniques draw as from the torrid dislodge jazz blowing tradition and the European microtonal schools. Born in 1964 in the culturally rich area of Umeå, he was open at a thomas Young age to diverse Swedish improvisers such as saxist Lars Göran Ulander and piano player Per Henrik Wallin. His number 1 instrument was the fluting, merely by his early teens, Gustafsson was playing saxophone as well. Around the eld of 14, he put his saxophone mouth on his flute to bring in an tool along on a trip, and since then has played this creative activity, the fluteophone, in addition to other, more than criterion vibrating reed instruments. His number 1 improvisations were with drummer Kjell Nordeson, wHO would later form the AALY Trio with Gustafsson. Mats Gustafsson touched to Stockholm in the mid-'80s, and on that point met musicians such as Sten Sandell and Raymond Strid. The three formed Gush in 1988, two long time after Gustafsson's duo with Christian Munthe, Two Slices of Acoustic Car, began. He too worked with Berlin-based Sven-Åke Johansson during this time, hence becoming acquainted with the German view. In 1990, Gustafsson performed in Derek Bailey's Company in London. He too began visiting the U.S. regularly, decent a regular in the Chicago improvising community as the '90s progressed, working extensively with Hamid Drake and Ken Vandermark, among others. Gustafsson has too performed and recorded with Barry Guy, Paul Lovens, Georg Graewe, Jaap Blonk, and as a member of Peter Brotzmann's all-star Chicago Octet/Tentet. Gustafsson has collaborated with artists in other media as well, including dance, theatre of operations, poetry, and house painting. Among his many on-going projects is the AALY Trio, with Nordeson and bassist Peter Janson, whose third record album, Live at the Glen Miller Cafe, came out on the Wobbly Rail judge in 1999. In 2000, he issued a new solo album on the Drag City subsidiary, Blue Chopsticks, a Steve Lacy tribute entitled Windows. Hidros One followed in early 2001.
Ancient Rites
