Four excerpts from coming CD by GuitCussion

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Four excerpts from coming CD by GuitCussion, called "Blue Congo": Green Moss & Iron Mill/ Broken View/ Aftermath/ Blue Congo.
Very low res. mp3

GuitCussion is a new Swedish free jazz group. The group has two guitarists and two drummers, and an aim to play free powerful improvised music.
Henrik Wartel // Drums?Stefan Thorpenberg // Electric Guitars?Per Anders Skytt // Drums?Gunnar Backman // Virtual Fretted Guitar ,?Live Loops
a new CD soon to be released.
swimming with a hole in my body

I play Country music too, I'm just not sure which country it's from...

"The only thing worse than a guitar is a guitarist!"
- Lydia Lunch

Brak(E)man

swimming with a hole in my body

I play Country music too, I'm just not sure which country it's from...

"The only thing worse than a guitar is a guitarist!"
- Lydia Lunch

Brak(E)man

#2
Review

http://www.freejazzblog.org/2015/02/guitcussion-blue-congo-brakophonic-2014.html


QuoteBy Paul Acquaro

The blog has covered some of the music coming from a somewhat intertwined scene in Sweden that includes the groups Glas, HeadJive, Baptet, and some of the solo material from guitarist Gunnar Backman. GuitCussion is another permutation, in which we find Backman joined by second guitarist Stefan Thorpenberg and drummers Henrik Wartel and Per Ander Skytt, who together bring an atmospheric approach to some rock oriented free playing.

The inspiration of the double duo of the group came from Wayne Shorter's 1969 Supernova which found the saxophonist with a double duo of Sonny Sharrock and John McLaughlin on guitars and Jack Dejohnette and Chick Corea drums (yup, Corea on drums). Thorpenberg describes the music of GuitCussion as "a very intense and sweaty form of freejazz, with some Nordic harmonic influences."

Indeed, some of the tunes of GuitCussion have that certain soaring sound associated with Terje Rypdal or even Jan Garbarek, and there are moments during the album where the music feels like an avalanche of sound.  Brash and wide swaths of sound pour from the guitars and the drums push and push. However, unlike groups where the power excess of the electric guitar is the focus, GuitCussion works with a big ensemble sound in which precise melodic lines and ambient textures are given weight. The guitarists use the sonic distinction of their instruments - Thorpenberg sticks to the classics like the Les Paul and Backman utilizes a double neck guitar that controls some serious digital equipment  - to their advantage on the epic tone poems of Blue Congo.

Some of the highlights include the shifting palette on the track 'Radio Nowhere', the tactile interplay on 'Broken View', and the sheer power of the slowly erupting 'Phoksundo'.

Fans of Rypdal's Chasers and rock based improv in general, give a listen:

swimming with a hole in my body

I play Country music too, I'm just not sure which country it's from...

"The only thing worse than a guitar is a guitarist!"
- Lydia Lunch

chrish

Terje Rypdal's album ''Descendre'' is one of my all time favorites.

I'm going to have to give a listen to your ensemble.

Brak(E)man

https://neuguitars.com/2018/10/10/review-of-blue-congo-by-guitcussion-brakophonic-records-2014-on-neuguitars-blog/
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Posted by ANDREA AGUZZI on 10 OCTOBER 2018

Review of Blue Congo by GuitCussion, Brakophonic Records, 2014
https://brakophonic.bandcamp.com/album/blue-congo
Henrik Wartel – Drums //
Stefan Thorpenberg – Electric Guitars //
Per Anders Skytt – Drums //
Gunnar Backman – Fretless and Fretted 25 string Virtual Guitar, Live Loops
GuitCussions are a Swedish free jazz band, characterized by the presence of two electric guitars and two drummers / percussionists. I could define them as a group in constant sonic free fall. This CD released in 2014, Blue Congo, demonstrates a remarkable kinetic impact capacity. Over 70 minutes of distorted guitars, polyrhythms and a wild fantasy that is the background to a flow of powerful and magmatic energy, to what in some cases seems a real avalanche of sounds. Over 70 minutes of music caracterized by a wide and full-bodied sonic structure where the sounds generated by the distorted guitars and the two drums pour out generous and powerful. But there is no buzz, there is no destructive chaos, aimed at itself . The four musicians are able to maneuver in their spaces generating an all-encompassing sound where appear and disappear melodic lines, clusters of noise and rhythmic shocks. Epic, powerful and with a great overall sound. The only criticism I feel to propose is their excessive musical verbiage. Over seventy minutes are a bit dispersive, but it is also true that this can be part of their style and the choice to adopt free organizational structures.
swimming with a hole in my body

I play Country music too, I'm just not sure which country it's from...

"The only thing worse than a guitar is a guitarist!"
- Lydia Lunch