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Mats Gustafsson

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Profile:Swedish reeds player and improviser Mats Gustafsson's extended saxophone techniques draw equally from the fiery free jazz blowing tradition and the European microtonal schools. Born in 1964 in the culturally rich area of Umeå, he was exposed at a young age to various Swedish improvisers such as saxophonist Lars Göran Ulander and pianist Per Henrik Wallin. His first instrument was the flute, but by his early teens, Gustafsson was playing saxophone as well. Around the age of 14, he put his saxophone mouthpiece on his flute to bring an instrument along on a trip, and since then has played this creation, the fluteophone, in addition to other, more standard reed instruments.

His first improvisations were with drummer Kjell Nordeson, who would later form the AALY Trio with Gustafsson. Mats Gustafsson moved to Stockholm in the mid-'80s, and there met musicians such as Sten Sandell and Raymond Strid. The three formed Gush in 1988, two years after Gustafsson's duo with Christian Munthe, Two Slices of Acoustic Car, began. He also worked with Berlin-based Sven-Åke Johansson during this time, thus becoming acquainted with the German scene.

In 1990, Gustafsson performed in Derek Bailey's Company in London. He also began visiting the U.S. regularly, becoming a regular in the Chicago improvising community as the '90s progressed, working extensively with Hamid Drake and Ken Vandermark, among others. Gustafsson has also performed and recorded with Sonic Youth, Barry Guy, Paul Lovens, Georg Graewe, Jaap Blonk, and as a member of Peter Brotzmann's all-star Chicago Octet/Tentet.
In Groups:AALY Trio, Come Sunday Ensemble, Diskaholics, Diskaholics Anonymous Trio, GUSH (3), Nash Kontroll, Original Silence, Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra, Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, Peter Brötzmann Tentet Plus Two, Sonore, Thing, The (2), Too Much Too Soon Orchestra, The, Two Slices Of Electric Car
Name Variations: All | Mats Gustafsson | Gustafsson | Mats
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Releases:
Nothing To Read (CD) Blue Tower Records 1991
For Don Cherry (CD) Okka Disk 1995
Improvisors (CD) Kontrans 1996
Impropositions (CD) Phono Suecia 1997
Live In Holland '97 (CD) X-OR 1997
Background Music (CD, Album, Ltd, Dig) Hat Hut Records 1998
Apertura (CD, Album) Blue Chopsticks 1999
The Education Of Lars Jerry (CD, Album) Xeric 1999
The Education Of Lars Jerry (LP, Album) Xeric 1999
Xylophonen Virtuosen (CD, Album) Incus Records 1999
New York - Ystad (CD, Ltd) Olof Bright 2000
The Thing (CD) Crazy Wisdom, Universal Music (Sweden) 2001
DEG (LP) Firework Edition Records 2002
I Love It When You Snore (CD, Album) Smalltown Supersound 2002
Trees and Truths (3x7" + Box) Olof Bright 2002
Blues (CD) Atavistic 2003
Off-Road (CD) Blue Chopsticks 2003
Solos For Contrabass Saxophone (12") Table Of The Elements 2003
Hidros 3 (CD) Smalltown Supersound 2004
But A Cry Of Pain Rolls Up A Mountain (7") iDEAL Recordings, Kning Disk 2005
How To Raise An Ox (CD, Album) Atavistic 2005
Slide Away (CDr, Mini) Kning Disk 2005
While The Wind Mixes The Playing Cards Of Polite Faces (7", Single, S/Sided, Ltd) iDEAL Recordings, Kning Disk 2005
It Is All About... (LP, Album, Ltd) Tyyfus 2007
PhonoMetak Series # 2 (10", Ltd) PhonoMetak Laboratories, Wallace Records 2007
Splatter (CD, Album) Smalltown Superjazzz 2007
The Fat Is Gone (CD, Album) Smalltown Superjazzz 2007
Words On The Floor (CD, Album) Smalltown Superjazzz 2007
Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth (CD, Album) Sonic Youth Records 2008
For Åke Hodell (7", Ltd) Quasi Pop Records 2008
Mats G Plays Duke E (12", S/Sided, Ltd, 26) Qbico 2008
Mats G Plays Duke E (12", S/Sided, Ltd, 99) Qbico 2008
Split LP Series #3 - Mats Gustafsson / Cor Fuhler (LP) Narrominded 2008
Production:
Sounds - Contemporary Swedish Improvised Music (2xLP) Blue Tower Records 1990
Up Umeå (CD, Album) Blue Tower Records 1999
I Wonder If I Was Screaming (CD, Album) Crazy Wisdom, Universal Music (Sweden) 2000
Soul (CD) Crazy Wisdom, Universal Music (Sweden) 2000
Walk, Stop, Look And Walk (CD) Crazy Wisdom, Universal Music (Sweden) 2000
She Knows... (CD) Crazy Wisdom, Universal Music (Sweden) 2001
New York - Ystad (7") Olof Bright 2002
The Music Of Norman Howard (LP) Anagram Records (2) 2002
Mix:
Action Jazz (CD, Album) Smalltown Superjazzz 2006
Appears On:
Now Or Never (LP) Bauta Records 1988
Saw - Music For Instruments And Machines (LP) Radium 226.05 1988
Sounds - Contemporary Swedish Improvised Music (2xLP) Refrain III, Refrain I... Blue Tower Records 1990
Try Me (7", W/Lbl, Ltd) Blue Tower Records 1990
Letters (CD, Album) Leo Records 1993
The Aerial #6 (CD) Xastock The Aerial 1994
Vario-34 (CD, Album, Box) Blue Tower Records, Edition Explico 1995
Gushwachs (CD, Album) Bead Records 1996
Upgrade & Afterlife (CD) The Sea Incertain Drag City 1996
Upgrade & Afterlife (CD) The Sea Incertain Normal 1996
Hidden In The Stomach (CD) Silkheart 1997
Lennart (CD, MiniAlbum, Ltd) Blue Tower Records 1997
Stumble (CD) Wobbly Rail 1998
The Chicago Octet/Tentet (3xCD) Old Bottles, No Wine, ... Okka Disk 1998
* Water Writes Always In * Plural (CD, Album, Box) Concepts Of Doing 1999
Live at the Glenn Miller Cafe (CD) Wobbly Rail 1999
Sounds 99 (3xCD) To(o) Late Frippe, Fyl... Blue Tower Records 1999
Sticky Tongues And Kitchen Knives (CD, Album) Xeric 1999
Three Rocks And A Pine (CD, Album) Ninth World Music 1999
Carliot Still Walking (2xCD) Good Friends Not On Label 2000
I Wonder If I Was Screaming (CD, Album) Crazy Wisdom, Universal Music (Sweden) 2000
Stone / Water (CD, Album) Okka Disk 2000
Stone/Water (LP, Ltd) Okka Disk 2000
The Spectrum Between (CD) Drag City 2000
The Spectrum Between (LP, Album) Drag City 2000
Waves From Albert Ayler (CD, Album) Atavistic 2000
Diskaholics Anonymous Trio (CD) Crazy Wisdom, Universal Music (Sweden) 2001
Inscape - Tableaux (CD, Album) Intakt Records 2001
She Knows... (CD) Crazy Wisdom, Universal Music (Sweden) 2001
Broken English (CD, Album) Okka Disk 2002
Double Or Nothing (CD, Album) Okka Disk 2002
New York - Ystad (7") Olof Bright 2002
Short Visit To Nowhere (CD, Album) Okka Disk 2002
The Music Of Norman Howard (LP) Anagram Records (2) 2002
The Zanzibar Excursion (DVD-V) Info Gram 2002
Usable Past (10", S/Sided, Ltd) Olof Bright 2002
Ystad 7 Oktober 2002 (LP) Dilettante Productions 2002
The Zanzibar Excursion (DVD-V) Phono Suecia 2003
Vijftig-En-Een-Half (2xCD) Wib Fibby Wap Kontrans 2003
Art Star (7", Ltd) Smalltown Superjazzz 2004
Garage (CD, Album) Hey Fläsk (For Alva M... Smalltown Superjazzz 2004
Images (CD) Okka Disk 2004
No One Ever Works Alone (CD, Album) Okka Disk 2004
ONJO (CD) Doubtmusic 2004
Signs (CD) Bird Notes (For Bengt ... Okka Disk 2004
Two Lightboxes (LP) Locust Music 2004
Electric Eel (LP) Qbico 2005
Live At Blå (CD) Smalltown Superjazzz 2005
Out To Lunch (CD, Album) Doubtmusic 2005
Plingeling/Plingaling (CD, Album) Score For Invisible So... Olof Bright 2005
Sounds Like A Sandwich (CD, Album) Smalltown Superjazzz 2005
Your Left Hand Just Exploded (CD) iDEAL Recordings 2005
Action Jazz (CD, Album) Strayhorn Smalltown Superjazzz 2006
Live In Japan Vol. 1 (LP) Load Records 2006
ONJQ - Live In Lisbon (CD, Album, Car) Clean Feed 2006
Weapons Of Ass Destruction (LP) Smalltown Superjazzz 2006
Weapons Of Ass Destruction (CD) Smalltown Superjazzz 2006
I See You Baby Shakin' That Ass (CD, EP) Smalltown Superjazzz 2007
The First Original Silence (CD) Smalltown Superjazzz 2007
Two Bands And A Legend (CD, Album) Tekla Loo Smalltown Superjazzz 2007
Life Beyond Mars - Bowie Covered (CD, Comp, Album) Life On Mars Rapster Records 2008
Now And Forever (3xCD, Ltd, Box + DVD) Smalltown Superjazzz 2008
The Second Original Silence (CD) Smalltown Superjazzz 2008
Tracks Appear On:
Sounds 99 (3xCD) To(o) Late Frippe Blue Tower Records 1999
KREV X - The Kingdoms Of Elgaland-Vargaland, 1992-2002 (2xCD) No More Coffee For Kin... Ash International 2002
Åke Hodell: Friends Of The Bumblebee (CD) The Beginning Håll Tjäften 2003
Afterhours #20: Anniversary Special (Summer 2004) (2xCD + CD, Enh) Hidros 9 After Hours 2004
Where We're At (CD, Smplr) Hidros 9 Smalltown Supersound 2004
Mind The Gap Volume 75 (CD, Comp, Dig) Sleeping Instructions ... Gonzo Circus 2008

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