Fire! (Mats Gustafsson / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin) + Oren Ambarchi - 2 Day Residency

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FIRE! is a high calibre allstar combo from Sweden featuring Mats Gustafsson from The Thing (saxophone/rhodes), Johan Berthling from Tape (bass) and Andreas Werliin from Wildbirds and Peacedrums (percussion), now with added firepower on this special run of dates courtesy of Australian drone lord and Sunn O)))/Gravetemple alumnus Oren Ambarchi (guitar/electronics). Their sound is a frenzy of monolithic rock textures, scorched electronics, kosmiche grooves and
an all-channels-open free jazz spirit, all amped up at blistering psychedelic voltage.

Mats Gustafsson - saxophones, Fender Rhodes and live electronics
Johan Berthling - bass, guitar, organ
Andreas Werliin - drums and percussion.

Oren Ambarchi (guitar, electronics)

A new ensemble with members from The Thing, Tape, Wildbirds and Peacedrums, creating a mix of slow down - speeded up, distorted versions of contemporary experimental music. With inspiration from mining, large truck engines, electro acoustic music from Sweden and a variety of creative garage rock and free jazz, FIRE! is building up a new language and model for how improvised music can be done.

"This is not fusion. It is not even progressive jazz rock à la Soft Machine. It's the endless psychedelic and epic - as yet unpolished - sound mastership of the early Pink Floyd in a more modern form with the magnificent voice of Gustafsson to add emotional power." (http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com)


Oren Ambarchi is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar, "re-routing the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it's no longer easily identifiable as itself. Instead, it's a laboratory for extended sonic investigation". (The Wire, UK).


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