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Cosmic Ear – TRACES

Albums
In the chill of last November I was in the audience for the debut outing of Cosmic Ear, a new quintet starring some of the leading lights of the Swedish jazz scene in the form of Mats Gustafsson, Goran Kajfeš, Christer Bothén, Juan Romero and Kansan Zetterberg. Landing right on my doorstep just a few weeks after the 56th iteration...

Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari – Journey to Nabta Playa

Albums
The opening track from Angel Bat Dawid and Naima Nefertari's big double album Journey to Nabta Playa finds the two musicians amid a sandstorm whose whorling winds are accompanied by their own impish aerophones and the scattered patter of rattling cans and clinking chimes. Grainy and buffeted on 'Neptune Desert Sounds', those chimes feel more hallowed and personal on...

Cosmic Ear, the New Mats Gustafsson and Goran Kajfeš Ensemble, Premieres in Umeå

Music
The saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and trumpeter Goran Kajfeš already seem to work at a maddening pace, major figures of the European avant-garde whose hands are all over the Swedish jazz scene, from Gustafsson's indefatigable Fire! trio and his foundational work with GUSH which now stretches back more than three decades to the freeform theatrics of his quintet The End,...