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Edition Festival for Other Music / VenueCMS / Fönstret.
www.freejazzblog.org/2025/12/free...
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Free Jazz Collective's Top Albums of 2025
Free Jazz Collective, reviews of avant garde and free jazz music and media
https://www.freejazzblog.org/2025/12/free-jazz-collectives-top-albums-of-2025.html
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Contact sheet, Ornette Coleman Quartet, Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, May 22, 1959 📸 William Claxton. From the Estate of Charlie Haden
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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label)
8 days ago
This is a WILD list. Not just the albums chosen, but the order. Read it with a smile on your face.
richardblute.ca/the-greatest...
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The Greatest Jazz Albums Of All Time
The 100 Greatest Jazz Albums Of All Time, a list with commentary, by Richard Blute My criteria for putting this list together: -Try to feature as many different musicians as possible. (There are in…
https://richardblute.ca/the-greatest-jazz-albums-of-all-time/
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Stewart Smith
11 days ago
Highest possible recommendation!
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John Hawthorn
11 days ago
If you don’t have this, you really do need it….
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A third physical edition of [Ahmed]'s landmark Giant Beauty 5CD boxset has now been put into production. Generally available next March, but you can pre-order already here:
ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/giant-...
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Giant Beauty, by أحمد [Ahmed]
5 track album
https://ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/giant-beauty
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Anna Högberg Attack Ensamseglaren är "Årets Avantgarde" i Lira:
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Skivorna som gjorde Lira-året 2025 – jazzen – Lira
Häromveckan publicerade vi vår lista över de folkmusikskivor som gjort störst avtryck 2025. Här fortsätter vi med jazzen, med fokus på Sverige. Totalt 21 album på en brokig lista med allt från crooner...
https://www.lira.se/skivorna-som-gjorde-lira-aret-2025-jazzen/
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A third physical edition of [Ahmed]'s landmark Giant Beauty 5CD boxset has now been put into production. Generally available next March, but you can pre-order already here:
ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/giant-...
'Apricot' ribbon for this batch.
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Giant Beauty, by أحمد [Ahmed]
5 track album
https://ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/giant-beauty
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Scott Cazan
15 days ago
We built membership subscriptions into Venue and now we have our first-use of it. Working to funnel more money directly into the pockets of arts venues and artists.
#venuecms
#artsadmin
#music
#stockholm
#fylkingen
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Congrats to
@fylkingen.bsky.social
on the launch of a new supporter initiative ‘Friends of Fylkingen’ powered by
@venuecms.bsky.social
fylkingen.se/en/p/support...
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Support Fylkingen
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Become a Friend of Fylkingen and help strengthen the future of Sweden's oldest venue for experimental music and art!</span>
https://fylkingen.se/en/p/support-fylkingen
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Anna Högberg Attack is #8 here:
www.dn.se/kultur/dn-va...
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DN väljer: Här är 2025 års bästa svenska skivor
Knastrande frijazz, satirisk köttpunk och drömsk afrogrunge finns med när DN:s musikkritiker röstar fram årets 10 bästa svenska skivor.
https://www.dn.se/kultur/dn-valjer-har-ar-2025-ars-basta-svenska-skivor/
21 days ago
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Nina Garcia's solo concert was one of the best live things I heard all year.
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26 days ago
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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace
26 days ago
No need to speculate. Music has always been capable of indeterminacy, improvisation and generative process approaches and we have decades of thought relating to a vast array of modern generative practices. GenAI is very late to the party, the main difference is the scale of labour exploitation.
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@scazan.bsky.social
is on an absolute tear right now banging out a lot of super useful updates. Really hope that folks will find what we are making helpful and good value for money. Excited to have a few new clients coming on board with sites planned for launch in early 2026, too.
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26 days ago
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Memberships are now part of
@venuecms.bsky.social
. Receive monthly or annual card payments via stripe connect. Included as part of our standard packages and we take no extra cut on top of stripe’s payment fees. Feature-flagged for now, so get in touch for access.
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26 days ago
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Doing a talk for composition students at KMH on Friday followed by this evening concert of fixed media works including pieces by myself and
@marjaahti.bsky.social
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Elektroakustiskt i december 2025 - Kungl. Musikhögskolan
Välkomna till en konsert med nykomponerad elektroakustisk musik!
https://www.kmh.se/konserter---evenemang/alla/elektroakustiskt-i-december-2025.html
27 days ago
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Richard Youngs
30 days ago
It’s that time of year again:
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Richard Youngs – Advent (1988)
YouTube video by custom goesdisco
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MgVOuc8RQN8
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This is tonight, Stockholm.
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about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
Last Space concert of the year at We jazz festival Helsinki on Saturday 29/11
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أحمد [Ahmed], “سماع [Sama’a] (Audition)”
Moving both faster and with more breathing room than ever before, [Ahmed] are a radical force in free jazz.
https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/ahmed-samaa-audition-review
about 1 month ago
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Anna Högberg Attack ‘Ensamseglaren’ is Phil England’s album of the year !
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...
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Phil England presents Adventures In Sound And Music - The Wire
The 20 November edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra included music by Mulatu Astatke, Anna Högberg Attack, Test Dept, Alexander Hawkins & Taylor Ho Bynum and ...
https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air/phil-england-presents-adventures-in-sound-and-music-76458
about 1 month ago
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boomkat.com
about 1 month ago
[Ahmed] أحمد Sama'a (Audition) سماع beautiful gatefold 2LP edition, just landed ✨
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Stewart Smith
about 1 month ago
Went deep on the awesome new [Ahmed] album
@thequietus.com
The greatest band in the world.
@cafeotodalston.bsky.social
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Who Says Free Music Can’t Dance? Sama’a (Audition) by [Ahmed] | The Quietus
With one of the great rhythm sections of our time, the free jazz quartet take the pan-Islamic music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik far out without sparing an ounce of its propulsive energy
https://thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/album-of-the-week/who-says-free-music-cant-dance-samaa-audition-by-ahmed/
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"...salty, bracing, strangely comforting. It’s a big-band elegy for people who can’t sit still; a farewell that refuses to whisper; a reminder that even the loneliest voyage leaves a wake luminous enough for others to follow."
www.chaindlk.com/reviews/13231
@edition-festival.com
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Anna Högberg Attack - Ensamseglaren | Chain D.L.K.
https://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/13231
about 1 month ago
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"...utan minsta tvekan står det klart att Ensamseglaren är ett av de mest spännande och särpräglade album jag hört på mycket länge"
www.lira.se/skivrecensio...
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Ensamseglaren – Lira
https://www.lira.se/skivrecension/ensamseglaren/
about 1 month ago
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I wonder if it snowed today in Lund
about 1 month ago
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Magnus Granberg & Skogen present ‘Trouble, Had It All My Days’ next week in Stockholm (Wednesday 26/11, Konserhuset) and London (Saturday 29/11, St Mary at Hill/Music We’d Like To Hear).
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about 1 month ago
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geoff wilt
about 1 month ago
Another Timbre has a new batch of releases, which are always worth checking out, but also just announced a 6CD set of new recordings of Morton Feldman’s late trios for flute, piano, and percussion - For Philip Guston, Why Patterns?, and Crippled Symmetry. link to the preview👇
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Magnus Granberg & Skogen present ‘Trouble, Had It All My Days’ next week in Stockholm (Wednesday 26/11, Konserhuset) and London (Saturday 29/11, St Mary at Hill/Music We’d Like To Hear).
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about 1 month ago
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Observations of Deviance
about 2 months ago
On the next episode Hikmah (Wisdom), Sufism and Free Jazz: Pat Thomas Interview Sat, Nov 15, 7-10pm(ET)
@wfmu.bsky.social
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wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
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[Ahmed] last night at
@cafeotodalston.bsky.social
was extraordinary. Up there with the best i’ve heard them do. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Guardian review of the new studio record here:
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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أحمد [Ahmed]: Sama’a (Audition) review – a wild, world-spanning act of musical devotion
The British free-jazz pianist Pat Thomas leads his quartet through a powerful fusion of Sufi inspiration, rhythmic intensity and improvisational fire
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/14/ahmed-samaa-audition-review-a-wild-world-spanning-act-of-musical-devotion
about 2 months ago
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The Tonearm
about 2 months ago
Experimental cellist Okkyung Lee discusses her ambient album 'Just Like Any Other Day', a four-year project born from isolation that turned memories of Korean cinema and cheap-sounding synthesizers into companionship for daily living. Ordinary Music — Okkyung Lee's Useful Composition:
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Ordinary Music — Okkyung Lee's Useful Contemplation
The experimental cellist discusses her ambient album 'Just Like Any Other Day (어느날): Background Music For Your Mundane Activities', a four-year project born from isolation that turned memories of Korean cinema and cheap-sounding synthesizers into companionship for daily living.
https://www.thetonearm.com/ordinary-music-okkyung-lees-useful-composition/
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Thrilled to welcome
@marjaahti.bsky.social
back to Stockholm on Sunday 23 November to conclude our concert series at Yeshin Norbu for 2025. For this occasion Marja will present new live works for quadraphonic speaker array.
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
Picked up the new [ahmed] Sama’a (Audition) LP last night from
@cafeotodalston.bsky.social
ahead of their upcoming 4 day residency this week.
#jazzsky
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Back in London this week for the Jazz Sahara...
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/ahmed...
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Cafe OTO → أحمد [Ahmed] – Four-Day residency – Pat Thomas / Antonin Gerbal / Joel Grip / Seymour Wright, 12–15 November 2025
Hugely excited to welcome back أحمد [Ahmed] - the quartet of Pat Thomas (piano), Antonin Gerbal (drums), Joel Grip (double bass) and Seymour Wright (alto saxophone) - for another extended four-day res...
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/ahmed-four-day-residency-25/
about 2 months ago
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Magnus Säll recension av Anna Högberg Attack i DN. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
www.dn.se/kultur/furio...
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Furiös vrede och befriande skönhet på månadens bästa jazzskiva
Anna Högberg Attack är tillbaka efter fem års tystnad. DN:s Magnus Säll konstaterar att jazz kan fungera både som sorgearbete och exorcism.
https://www.dn.se/kultur/furios-vrede-och-befriande-skonhet-pa-manadens-basta-jazzskiva/
about 2 months ago
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I recorded 4 pieces by composer Jonas S Bohlin over the last years including a solo cello piece at Operan just a few months ago. Always so grateful for his trust and enthusiasm. My condolences to all those close to him.
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/tons...
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Tonsättaren Jonas S Bohlin död - Kulturnytt
Tonsättaren Jonas S Bohlin är död, det meddelar hans familj. Han blev 62 år gammalHans genombrott kom 1992 med stycket "Trakt" med text av poeten Katarina ...
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/tonsattaren-jonas-s-bohlin-dod
about 2 months ago
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GRM interview with Daniel M Karlsson about the piece commissioned and released by
@edition-festival.com
that he presented in Paris back in May
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU68...
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Daniel M KARLSSON Towards a Music for Large Ensemble FOCUS 2025
YouTube video by INA grm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU688xTaIEA
about 2 months ago
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Counterflows Festival
about 2 months ago
Scotland’s longest running festival of experimental and marginal music is back. We return on the 9 - 12 of April 2026 in Glasgow ♥️ Full Festival passes are now on sale in standard, solidarity and pay what you want tiers:
counterflows.com/festival/cou...
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Anna Högberg Attack — Ensamseglaren has been out for a month now ! Look at these beautiful humans that made it happen. Photos by the irrepressible Tina Axelsson.
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about 2 months ago
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Packed a restock for
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and now down to the last 25 copies of the Anna Högberg Attack LP. Super appreciate everyone’s support towards this year’s Fönstret releases!
about 2 months ago
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Monteiro
about 2 months ago
Earlier this week I flew to Oslo and gave a talk at Y-Oslo. It’s a talk about the human spirit, believing in yourself, how AI is bullshit, and how capitalism robs us of our confidence. Pour yourself a cup of coffee or tea or whatever makes you happy and enjoy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH2d...
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Y Oslo - How to draw an orange, Mike Monteiro
YouTube video by Y Oslo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH2dFXDMwe4
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FMQ - Heartfelt homemade sounds from the fringes
Sound art, electronics, folk and jazz overlap and interact on three DIY/experimental albums: Béke by Oiro Pena, Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth by Marja Ahti and A Few We Remember by Jonah Parzen...
https://www.fmq.fi/articles/heartfelt-homemade-sounds-from-the-fringes
about 2 months ago
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Marja Ahti
2 months ago
An extract from 'Fluctuating Streams' played by Florence based ensemble Blutwurst - one of two 'translations' of previously electronic works from our CD 'Visiting Cloud', which will be released on Another Timbre November 17th. Recorded in Florence, June 2024.
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Marja Ahti 'Fluctuating Streams' extract, played by Blutwurst
YouTube video by Anothertimbre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwSOanTOc2M
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Great to see this wonderful Niklas Persson Trio set I recorded last year coming out via Göteborg's Discreet Music.
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Live At Teater Tribunalen, by Niklas Persson Trio
2 track album
https://discreetmusicgbg.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-teater-tribunalen
2 months ago
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Chris Monsen
2 months ago
Ser at Big Dipper (og sikkert andre) har både CD- og LP-utgaven av A Keen Beast inne, men kom på at Fönstret-titler ikke er lette å få tak i her på berget, så tilbyr herved en Bandcamp-lenke til denne:
annahogberg.bandcamp.com/album/ensams...
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Ensamseglaren, by Anna Högberg Attack
2 track album
https://annahogberg.bandcamp.com/album/ensamseglaren
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2 months ago
Har skrevet om saksofonisten Anna Högberg Attack!s rystende, vakre og helende 'Ensamseglaren', og vurdert Zanussi 3s "bare" jazz, bass og fortreffelig musikalske samhandling og oppfinnsomhet på 'A Keen Beast' som gild nok i seg selv i dagens Musikkmagasinet i Klassekampen. Les i papir og i e-avisa.
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Foruten venn
Anna Högbergs Attack vendte tilbake da faren gikk bort.
https://klassekampen.no/utgave/2025-10-24/foruten-venn
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The Quietus
2 months ago
'Over two sides of an LP, Anna Högberg with her 12-strong ensemble takes us along paths of genteel jazz, intriguing experimentation, thunderous doom, and brassy sighs capable of breaking your heart.' Anna Högberg Attack - Ensamseglaren
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