Alexander Zethson  piano / Mattias Ståhl  vibraphone / Johan Berthling  double bass
Andreas Werliin  drums / Magnus Broo  trumpet / Goran Kajfes  cornet / Mats Aleklint  trombone
Eirik Hegdal  baritone and sopranino saxophones / Martin Küchen  alto saxophone

Side a:
In our midst / Every woman is a tree
Side b:
By way of deception
All music by Martin Küchen( STIM/NcB)

By now, and after listening to “Every Woman is a Tree”, “Epileptical West” and “By Way of Deception”, you certainly identified what makes Angles’ music so unique: Martin Kuchen’s band plays a sad melody like if it’s an epical hymn. With the original sextet turned to a nonet, there’s even more bravado. This is political music without lyrics, music with an attitude and a message, and it tells us about human suffering due to wrong decisions by powers and interests worldwide. 
	Kuchen could deal only with the suffering, in the Romantic way established in music since the 19th century, but he chooses to transform sadness into rage and will to change, and what would be simple ballads or blues songs into something that sounds as bright and colorful as an opera or a symphony, but with a groovy feeling. The words are in the emotional expression of all the instruments and it really seems they talk to you, thanks to the extraordinary skills of the musicians involved in this LP (the second vinyl recording released by Clean Feed), the crème de la crème of the Nordic scene. Angles 9 is the European equivalent to Charlie Haden’s Liberation Orchestra: a punch in your conscience.

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Recorded October 13th, 2012 at Kunstencentrum Belgie, Hasselt, Belgium by Michel W. Huon
Mixed by Mats Aleklint / Mastered by Jakob Riis / Produced by Martin Küchen
Executive production by Trem Azul / Design by Travassos

Angles 9 - In Our Midst

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