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Tjernberg, Per - Music is my Salvation

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I know drummer Per Tjernberg from his (great) work with Archemedes Badkar, and from his unbelievably great last album as a leader, Inside Information. Honestly, I don't think that this hits the heights of that one, but it's a good record filled with great players from the Swedish new music/new jazz scene.

"[Per] continues his later development using a large ensemble of great improvisers and a more jazz influenced expression. Multi-instrument genius Kjell Westling plays a central role on the album that turned out to be his last recording before his rather sudden demise in the fall of 2010. “Music Is My Salvation” contains music that shifts kaleidoscopically and often takes surprisng turns around what Tjernberg calls “vertical horizons” – the only thing that stays constant is that it defies categorization into “style” or “genre”, even if advance listeners has detected elements that might have their source in Tjernbergs wideranging musical tastes such as Harry Partch, Alice Coltrane, Phil Spectors arranger Jack Nietzche, Santeria-drumming, Hermeto Pascoal, Frank Zappa, Garth Hudsons work with The Band, Herbie Hancocks Mwandishi-group, The Art Ensemble Of Chicagos use of “little instruments” and of course Igor Stravinsky, whose “Miniature” (the only composition not penned by Tjernberg) nods to Tjernbergs life-long obsession with Stravinsky's music in general, and the score for “Petroushka” in particular (as some listeners might find evident in the two-part “Pythagoras Suite” that opens the album)"

"... communicates a sense of excitement and real pleasure in the playing, and although you probably won't want to pin your hopes of salvation on this one, there's plenty to enjoy."-Julian Cowley, The Wire



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