★Caprice Records
Bits And Pieces: EMS 30 Years
Electroacoustic Music in Sweden (Swedish centre for sonic artists and electroacoustic music composers) thirty years celebration triple CD set. Including unreleased elsewhere tracks by legendary composers such as Ákos Rózmann, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Åke Parmerud, Ricardo Mandolini, Ragnar Grippe and many more. As the history goes, in 1964 the board of the Swedish Radio decided to build Sweden’s first professional electronic music studio. This triple CD was released to celebrate the 30th anniversary o…
The Snake
Sweden's extraordinary drums-and-vocals duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums return with The Snake, the fierce follow-up to their intoxicating debut, Heartcore. Acclaimed as one of Time Out's Top Ten Albums of the Year (among other accolades, including an 8.0 from Pitchfork), Heartcore introduced vocalist Mariam Wallentin and her percussionist husband Andreas Werliin to the world outside their lively Gothenburg scene and wound up as one of 2008's hidden treasures. The pair has since toured extensively, th…
Hidros One
2025 stock A composed improvisation, or possibly the other way around – this is one way of describing the music played by Mats Gustafsson and the Nu Ensemble, a multinational group of improvisational musicians.
The saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, born in 1964, became interested in improvisational music at an early age, inspired by among others the German Peter Brötzmann and the Britt Evan Parker.
The Nu Ensemble was a loosely structured, irregularly convened radio and concert project built around …