Saturday, August 18, 2018

FÖRKLÄDD GUD – Jazz i Sverige '77 (Caprice, 1977)

Instrumental
International relevance: **

The 1977 installment in Caprice Records ”Jazz i Sverige” (”jazz in Sweden”) series that was initiated in 1972 and ran until 2010. Förklädd Gud only released this one album, recorded live in a school in the posh Stockholm suburb Lidingö during two days in April '77. The music is a bit similar to that of of Iskra, meaning the music often hold its breath and work up a slow burning tension. But Förklädd Gud is rawer than Iskra, also featuring electric guitar, with more ferocious free jazz outbursts closer to the contemporaries on the vivid European avant jazz scene of the day, than Iskra and their American relatives Art Ensemble of Chicago. ”Jazz i Sverige '77” might not be the best example of Swedish free jazz but it's a fine enough album and should appeal to fans of free improv.

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