Fönstret 1.2 — Festen

Two short sets from Festen — the quartet of Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman, Isak Hedtjärn and Erik Carlsson — playing ‘in-the-round’ at Fylkingen

Two short sets from Festen — the quartet of Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman, Isak Hedtjärn and Erik Carlsson. This group is easily one of my favourites in Stockholm. I love how they easily move between spaciousness and density without loosing any of the tension they generate or sacrificing the intricacy of how their four voices combine and respond to one another. 

For this session we agreed it would be nice for Festen to play ‘in-the-round’ rather than lining up to face an absent audience and I over ambitiously tried to manage running around between three cameras placed at the group’s perimeter, still adjusting the light as the music was underway. I like the lack of any formal start to proceedings and what you hear here is everything we put to tape that Sunday afternoon — the recorder rolling shortly after the group begins to play.

— John Chantler

Festen is:
Lisa Ullén, piano
Elsa Bergman, double bass
Isak Hedtjärn, clarinet and saxophone
Erik Carlsson, drums

Recorded March 2021 at Fylkingen, Stockholm.
Thanks to Anna Högberg and Finn Loxbo. 
Produced for Edition Festival for Other Music with financial support from Kulturrådet, The Swedish Arts Council.

Fönstret //
Fönstret is a new series of publications initiated by the Edition Festival for Other Music that will be produced in different physical and online formats. This first batch are all films available to watch free of charge via the festival website. 

1:1 // Lisa Ullén
1:2 // Festen
1:3 // Leif Elggren
1:4 // Raymond Strid

A collection of essays will be published as a soft-bound book in early 2022.

Fönstret 1.1 — Lisa Ullén

Lisa Ullén is a composer and pianist living in Stockholm. Recorded in May 2021 in Lisa’s home, the video shows her engaged in the eternal ‘work in progress’ that she describes in the spoken interview. 

Lisa Ullén is a composer and pianist living in Stockholm. Recorded in May 2021 in Lisa’s home, the video shows her engaged in the eternal ‘work in progress’ that she describes in the spoken interview. 

This is Fönstret 1.1 — the first missive in a new series of multi-format publications (films, books, audio recordings) produced by the Edition Festival for Other Music. 


Subtitles available in English and Swedish.

Cameras: Feronia Wennborg & John Chantler
Sound Recording: John Chantler

This film has been made possible with support from Kulturrådet, The Swedish Arts Council.

Ikue Mori & Steve Noble — School Concert

Steve Noble & Ikue Mori
Steve Noble & Ikue Mori. Photo by Andy Newcombe.

FRIM — with support from Stockholms Lans Lanstinget — is pleased to host a school concert at Fylkingen on Friday 10 February 2017 at 11am.

This event is free, but registration is required.  Please email john@edition-festival.com or frimmusic@gmail.com to secure a place for your class/students.

All school ages welcome.

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Peter Brötzmann & Heather Leigh

Heather Leigh
Heather Leigh. Photo © Micke Keysendal.

Heather Leigh — pedal steel
Peter Brötzmann — reeds

Recorded by Jonathan Dakers at Fylkingen, 19 Feb 2016 as part of First Edition. Mixed by John Chantler.

Stockholm Record Shopping

Record Mania — Free Jazz New Arrivals, December 2016 (Photo: Record Mania)

A few recommendations for out-of-town visitors — this is by no means comprehensive, just the ones I go to most often…

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Globe Unity Orchestra

Alexander von Schlippenbach
Alexander von Schlippenbach. Photo © Micke Keysendal

Globe Unity Orchestra:

Henrik Waldorff — saxophones
Gerd Dudek — saxophones
Frederik Ljungkvist — saxophones
Axel Dörner — trumpet
Manfred Schoof — trumpet
Christof Thewes — trombone
Mats Äleklint — trombone
Alexander von Schlippenbach — piano
Paul Lytton — drums, percussion

Recorded at Fylkingen by Jonathan Dakers on 19. February 2016 as part of First Edition.  Mixed by John Chantler.

Globe Unity’s performance was made possible with the kind support of the Goethe Institut, Sweden.

 

Rashad Becker & Okkyung Lee

Okkyung Lee & Rashad Becker
Okkyung Lee & Rashad Becker. Photo © Micke Keysendal

Okkyung Lee — cello
Rashad Becker — electronics

Recorded 20 February 2016 at Fylkingen during First Edition by Daniel M Karlsson. Mixed by John Chantler.