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“Zevious split the difference between the Tony Williams Lifetime and the 80s Downtown scene...[they make] algebraic music feel wholly organic , almost swinging."
– Jazz Times

"...Zevious is for anyone who loves aggressive, rock-oriented improv with grooves and some semblance of a song...these guys put their music degrees to work...letting us know that being intense doesn't mean you can't have arrangements and following a script doesn't mean you can't let your hair down."
– DownBeat

Zevious are a trio—guitarist Mike Eber, drummer Jeff Eber (cousins, not brothers), and bassist Johnny DeBlase. They started out as jazzbos in 2006, but they got over it; they "went electric," as the old folks say, with DeBlase putting down his upright bass and Mike Eber picking up the Telecaster that gives his tightly knotted lines their sting. The music they wrote shifted from jazz chords and head-nodding swing to tumbling, noisy rock that recalls instrumental-skronk powerhouses like Don Caballero, the Nels Cline Singers, Dysrhythmia (for whom Jeff also plays), Behold…The Arctopus, Hyrrokkin, King Crimson (circa 1975), James “Blood” Ulmer, and more.

Their first release for Cuneiform, After The Air Raid, rightly gained them a lot of attention for their modern and powerful approach to electric jazz. The group gathered good press and enthusiastic audiences, as the band spent a good bit of 2010 and 2011 touring.

According to the band, the goal on 'Passing Through The Wall' is to induce a trance-like state in the listener through repetition, non-conventional melody and challenging song structure. The compositions are based around large cycles of layered poly-rhythmic patterns against octave displaced melodies; the individual parts working together to create dense, pulsating textures. The title 'Passing Through The Wall' is fitting for the music on this album because the band is challenging the listener to literally “pass through a wall” of sound, transforming their state of mind in the process. As Mike explains, "Every piece that we write, we’re trying to explore a particular concept, and on this album we really tried to play with layered time. So at some point or throughout entire tracks, we’re actually playing in three time signatures at once—I might be in one, Johnny’s in another, Jeff is playing both and then on top of that, another one."

On 'Passing Through The Wall,' the trio is tighter, crazier and more intense than ever and this is certainly their greatest achievement to date. Working once more with engineer Colin Marston (Behold… The Arctopus, Dysrhythmia), their live sound has been clearly and accurately captured in all its hugely roaring, polymetric glory! It's a ferocious 48-minute slab of muscular, intelligent instrumental music that breaks musical and stylistic barriers.

Zevious, "Entanglement" from 'Passing Through The Wall' (Cuneiform Records)

India (John Coltrane/Jowcol Music) 6,58

part of the album 'BOOT', to be released on The Thing Records Nov 12th, 2013 

Produced by THE THING

Mats Gustafsson – bass saxophone
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten – electric bass
Paal Nilssen – Love – drums

Recorded February 11- 13th 2013 by Martin Siewert at Grand Sport studio, Oslo
Mixed April 2013 by Martin Siewert and Mats Gustafsson at Garnison7, Vienna
Mastered for CD by Martin Siewert and Olof Madsen
Art direction by Lasse Marhaug

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A 4min 12 secs edit of Track 3 from the new Phoenix Rising album by Rovo and System 7. This track is a cover of a track by the Mahavishnu Orchestra, showing the great blend of guitar and electric violin. 
Rovo and System 7 play live in UK/Europe in March 2014:- March 7th Manchester (Ritz)  :  March 8th London (O2 Shepherds Bush Empire)  :  March 13th Amsterdam (Melkweg)

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Rovo and System 7 - Meeting of the Spirits (edit)

James Plotkin & Paal Nilssen-Love - The Skin, The Colour

Bushman´s Revenge - Kugeln und Kraut

Katatonia 'Reworkings' Competition

Hanging The Star with Edgepilotz

Right Into The Bliss - Katatonia reworking feat. Alx Leeks aka Hanging The Star, prod. Alan Miller

Krokofant - Bodega

ELEVATORS TO THE GRATEFUL SKY (ETTGS) hails from Palermo, Sicily, a place where scorching heat makes music - and stoner rock, in this case - particularly angry and dazed.  
Combining 70's heavy rock riffing with psychedelic flights, doom metal dirges and a whole palette of influences,  ELEVATORS TO THE GRATEFUL SKY aren't afraid to  
roam across different styles while keeping their fuzzed-out wall of sound intact. This record is embraced by a beautifully drawn artwork - made by Sandro (vocals) - that really
embodies the psychedelic experience and allows you to join the turbulent world of ETTGS.
Don't miss out on this stone-rocker from Transubstans records! 
Recommended for fans of SLEEP, DOZER, KARMA TO BURN, KYUSS

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ELEVATORS TO THE GRATEFUL SKY Sirocco

Swedish MOON COVEN takes everything you ever knew about
psychedelic rock, stoner and space rock and transforms it into a
completely new concept.
This is their debut EP "Amanita Kingdom", a record that for sure
will make its mark in modern stoner history.

With their entangling, hypnotic wall of sound, MOON COVEN
allows the unaware listener to sink into their world of depth.
On only these five tracks you can fully appreciate the variety
of the band - from the sludgy, droned-out zombie tunes of tracks like
"Ruler Of Dust" and "Amanita Kingdom" to the harmony and beauty of tracks like "We Were Conquerors".
Out on Transubstans in January!

MOON COVEN Ruler Of Dust

From the album "Sleepwalking Sailors", available everywhere February 11th, 2014 via Sargent House

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Helms Alee - Tumescence

Croatian Amor - LA Hills Burn At The Peak Of Winter

"Björkenheim has been well regarded since his 1980s work...but his recent releases have been particularly memorable." 
– Stereophile 

Guitarist and composer Raoul Björkenheim emerged from Finland in the 80s with Edward Vesala's band, then started his own group, Krakatau, who recorded for ECM and Cuneiform. 

He is probably best known for his work with Scorch Trio and with Bill Laswell and Morgan Agren in Blixt, but he has been a busy, active player for the last 30 years. 

Ecstasy is his new electric, ecstatic jazz band, which features some of the younger talents on the Finnish jazz scene and which was designed to be an ensemble that will regularly go out and tour. The group consists of Raoul, Pauli Lyytinen (saxophones), Jori Huhtala (contrabass) and Markku Ounaskari (drums) in a repertory of original compositions painting swirling polyrhythms with a free-tonal palette. 
With influences ranging from Korean and African music to contemporary chamber music, new jazz and free rock, Ecstasy's mission is to elevate its audiences with their high energy and dedication to adventurous sound. 

"The band name Ecstasy refers to a music that is so fluid and intelligible that it flows around and past obstacles, and attains the listener by surprise and joy. The listener finds himself outside of his self, transported. I firmly believe that music does have a mission to elevate the spirit, to remind the listener about the ecstasy of being alive. I'd love our band to play so much together that we'd be able to communicate on a high level of ESP, and make our group interplay truly virtuosic in the positive meaning of that word. Then we could communicate to any audience, regardless of whether "jazz", "rock" or "contemporary". 
-Raoul Björkenheim 

Ecstasy brings together new and established names from the Finnish scene into a compact powerhouse of an ensemble.

eCsTaSy is 
Raoul Björkenheim: electric guitar 
Pauli Lyytinen: saxophones & kalimba 
Jori Huhtala: contrabass 
Markku Ounaskari: drums

Raoul Björkenheim / eCsTaSy, "El Pueblo Unido" from 'eCsTaSy' (Cuneiform Records)

Raoul Bjorkenheim - guitar & viola da gimbri
William Parker - bass & shawm
Hamid Drake - drums
live at the Stone on 12/26/2006 during Downtown Music Gallery's curation 

RAOUL BJORKENHEIM/WILLIAM PARKER/HAMID DRAKE: Lithone 1 part1 (excerpt)

Second album from Swedish kraut-rockers MF/MB/
Released 01.03.13 via Adrian Recordings
Produced by Mathias Oldén, Joakim Lindberg, Victor Nilsson
Mixed by Magnus Lindberg
Mastered by Masters of Audio

unto death

Blackjazz Rebels

Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Lake Acid

Bushman´s Revenge - As We Used To Sing

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Swedish collective Mats/Morgan—also known as the Mats/Morgan Band—occupy, or more aptly, create their own sphere in the transcontinental music scene, a zone wherein progressive rock, jazz-rock fusion, experimental rock, electronica, and progressive pop overlap and intertwine. The double-CD set Radio Da Da/The Teenage Tapes compiles Mats/Morgan’s earliest works but with a difference: These albums have been lovingly remixed, remastered, resequenced, and overdubbed by Morgan Ågren himself—they are virtually new offerings. Recorded in 1992 (Radio Da Da) and the years 1981-2008 (The Teenage Tapes), this compendium captures Mats/Morgan to some extent in embryonic phases, yet there’s nothing tentative or unfinished about its contents. Everything comes from someplace, and the genre-defying breadth of styles, bracing ideas, and high level of musicianship will appeal to both longtime followers of the group and neophytes, as well as fans of prog-rock and experimental rock in general.

Co-led by Swedish musicians Mats Öberg (keyboards) and Morgan Ågren (drums), Mats/Morgan remain one of the longest-running European bands (30 years!) in the sometimes-overlapping spheres of jazz fusion and progressive rock. The Mats/Morgan Band has released ten albums and played countless concerts and music festivals. Each has successful parallel careers as leaders and collaborators in a wide range of contexts. An internationally acclaimed drummer, Morgan frequently rates highly in drummers’ magazines’ polls worldwide. Morgan is one-third of a power-improv trio with Raoul Bjorkenheim and Bill Laswell that performs at festivals worldwide and recorded the album Blixt, a thorny, cathartic set released on Cuneiform in 2011. Öberg has performed and recorded with players the caliber of Denny Walley, the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, and Bengt Berger’s Beches Brew.

Its sixth Mats/Morgan release, a two-disc set entitled Radio Da Da / The Teenage Tapes. This double-disc marks the American debut of Mats/Morgan’s second and third albums, both originally self-released in Sweden in 1998. Radio Da Da and The Teenage Tapes, augmented with previously unreleased material. On Disc One, Radio Da Da is Mats and Morgan performing nearly all instruments and vocals plus contributions from Thordson, Mussa, Jimmy Ågren, and more, augmented by two extra tracks. The brisk, snappy “Sigfrid” begins with some bracing Terry Riley/Phillip Glass minimalism before segueing into some searing, soaring keys-flights evocative of early electric-era Return To Forever. “Täljes Logan” and “Djungle Man” are likely inspired by Zappa’s more satirical songs, contrasting deceptively sweet melody with comically caustic dissonance, while “Kul I Parken” with its backwards melody, crisp percussion, and pulsing melodic motifs imparts a nightmarish, Tim Burton-like tone.

Disc Two: Teenage Tapes, which compiled the duo’s earliest works, including home and DIY recordings from as early as 1981. While the original Tapes contained 29 tracks, this edition has been expanded to 36 [!] tracks to include recordings up to and including 2008. Tapes seems relatively rough-hewn compared to Radio Da Da, yet never amateurish. Indeed, The Teenage Tapes finds the duo wise beyond their years, presenting playfully grandiose textures (the elemental, fugue-like “JP3”), thorny fusion, dream-pop interludes (“Wanna Dance?”), and gothic bebop (“Bandet Gär”). “Chicken Pie” pays tribute to the flamboyant proto-prog of Yes and Genesis while “Basflarp” is a stirring slice of Scandinavian funk, Billy Cobham and Stanley Clarke carving a niche in the Arctic Circle. While Teenage Tapes presents a band still finding its way, combining razor-sharp instrumental acumen with a puckish sense of humor, seeds of forthcoming greatness are already evident. “Bombonk” finds these youths blending the whimsical and the nightmarish with equal aplomb. “Foxtrot” (a nod to Genesis?) evokes post-Discipline King Crimson.

With the release of the double-CD Radio Da Da / Teenage Tapes, fans and novices will be able to go “forward” with Mats/Morgan in terms of a “new” opus to relish by jumping headfirst into the past via these hitherto-unheard (outside of Sweden) albums. Devotees of Rock In Opposition, the “old-school” prog of the Canterbury bands, fusion, and even commercial powerhouses Yes and Brand X will find vistas a-plenty to cherish.

Mats/Morgan, "Djungle Man" from  'Radio Da Da / The Teenage Tapes'

Taken from the new SUMMONING album "Old Mornings Dawn" 

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