Exposure

I am currently administrating a most exciting project which will go ahead in December: IB Expo.

IB Expo is the brainchild of Mats Johansson, composer/musician with Isildurs Bane and myself. Briefly put, it is an opportunity for Isildurs Bane to meet and interact with top notch musicians during a handful of days. To wrap it up, we will put on a concert on Friday December 16 at Kulturhuset in Halmstad, Sweden.

Our guests this year will be basist Mick Karn, drummer/percussionist Jerry Marotta, stick player Tom Griesgraber our dear friends Metamorfosi Trio from Italy. This will be great!

Both Mick Karn and Jerry Marotta have told me that they look forward to our week together in December, and so is everyone involved in Isildurs Bane of course. At the moment we are working on the practical stuff, but soon the musical work will begin and in a couple of weeks, there will be interesting music right. left and centre.

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A couple of days ago, I had the pleasure of attending Jazz in Malmo's 30th anniversary concert. A case of a who's who in Malmo's jazz history performed very short sets to get us from 1975 up to date. Highly memorable performances came from the subtleness of Hakan Rydin's trio accompanying Almaz Yebio and Elisabeth Melander; fierce trumpet solos from the horn master Anders Bergcrantz, a humour-filled double bass duet featuring Mattias Hjort and Mattias Svensson supported by Jan Lundgren; the wonderful spikey weirdness of guitarist Krister Jonsson... I could go on and on about this. I was truly pleased to see so many people of all ages there, everybody enjoying themselves and letting the music soak in.

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Exposure was composed by Robert Fripp and Peter Gabriel. I prefer the version on Fripp's solo album on which this song is the title track. Terre Roche belts her heart out over a minimalistic background on this take. Much more interesting than Gabriel's restrained performance on his second solo album.


NP: Mick Karn - The Tooth Mother