The Underflow take their name from the Greek record store where guitarist David Grubbs, cornetist Rob Mazurek, and saxophonist Mats Gustafsson played their first trio gig in May 2019. But the connections joining the three musicians were forged in the 1990s, when Grubbs and Mazurek were associated with Chicago’s postrock scene and the Sweden-born Gustafsson […]
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Catalytic Sound launches a streaming service to support improvising musicians
Catalytic Sound launches a streaming service to support improvising musicians, rapper-producer Rashid Hadee collaborates with the Primeridian, and more
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Ken Vandermark, Kent Kessler, and Hamid Drake are back to help improvised music fans release holiday stress
In January the DKV Trio released The Fire Each Time (Not Two), a six-CD box set documenting a string of gigs that percussionist Hamid Drake, bassist Kent Kessler, and reedist Ken Vandermark played with multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee in four different countries during the last two months of 2017. This set—and previous DKV recordings featuring the […]
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John Corbett reads from his new book, Microgroove, this weekend
The knowledgeable and curious Chicago writer gets into the Microgroove.
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Aggressive sax-drum duos Dead Neanderthals and Burning Tree play Elastic
Spill-off from the Utech Records Fest in Milwaukee benefits Chicago Sunday evening
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Thurston Moore hooks up with Scandinavian free jazz juggernaut the Thing
And together they create visceral, cut-punching improvisations.
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Free Jazz and Improvisation on Vinyl 1965-1985 casts a loving eye on the heyday of the music
The great Norwegian label Rune Grammofon pays tribute to its predecessors.
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In Rotation: Exit Ghost guitarist Michael Golas on Amen Dunes’ embrace of collapse
Current musical obsessions of Exit Ghost guitarist Michael Golas and artist Elena Ailes
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Dieb13’s weightless vinyl
The Viennese turntable improviser makes his Chicago debut tonight.
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Mats Gustafsson, now and then
Fiery sounds from the Swedish reedist dating back to 2000, with an accent on his deep Chicago connections
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Vancouver’s Gordon Grdina finds his sweet spot between jazz and Arabic music
Grdina, who doubles on oud, plays a couple of shows this week that will surely demonstrate his disparate aesthetic tendencies.
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Catalytic-Sound’s free-jazz online clearinghouse
Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson, Peter Brötzmann, and Paal Nilssen-Love band together to sell their music direct to fans.
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Mats Gustafsson, R. Crumb, and discaholism
Swedish reedist and record collector Mats Gustafsson interviews fellow discaholic R. Crumb.
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The blustery blowouts of saxophonists Colin Stetson and Mats Gustafsson
The first-time meeting of singular saxophonists Colin Stetson and Mats Gustafsson has been released as Stones.
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Mats Gustafsson launches Discaholic Corner
Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson shares his obsessive love of obscure records with a new website.