Sunday, September 2, 2018

OLLE BÄVER – Castor fiber (Amigo, 1978)

Instrumental
International relevance: ***
 
High calibre free/avant jazz from Gothenburg's vital 70's scene, with Susanna Lindeborg (Mwendo Dawa, Salamander) on piano. But ”Castor fiber” has powerful and nervy perfomances from everyone involved, which means Bo Andersson (sax, clarinet), Jan Amnehäll (sax, flute), Ingemar Landén, (drums), Per-Anders Nilsson (baritone saxophone) Kjell Thorbjörnson (bass), with guests Torulf Berg (cornet), Anders Bodebeck (trombone), and Harald Stenström (tuba). Dynamic and tense, there's anothing airy-fairy about this; still it sometimes gets the dreadful 'spiritual jazz' tag attached to it which is dead wrong – spirited is the correct word.

Olle Bäver is also represented on various artists comp "LIM – Levande musik från Göteborg". They later turned into acclaimed free jazz outfit Pow Wow that released a couple of discs on the Footprints label in 00's.

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