Thomas Gustafsson – Elisabeth Engdahl

the first “Swedish National Treasure” awardee

Niklas Rådström on Thomas and Elisabeth:

“All around are to be found empty acoustic rooms and silent organ pipes waiting to be filled with new music. Churches are increasingly-important concert venues and with these pieces Elisabeth Engdahl and Thomas Gustafsson have created music to fill the vaults with sounds to vibrate far beyond their walls”

A frequent participator in Country & Eastern projects

Thomas Gustafsson, the first “Swedish National Treasure” awardee is a frequent participator in Country & Eastern projects since the time of the Bitter Funeral Beer Band in the early 80’s playing an important part in the See You In A Minute and Beches Brew albums and in various live projects including Cool Funeral Beer.

Elisabeth!

Composer, arranger, band leader, saxophonist, keyboardist Elisabeth Engdahl is also a noted player of the church organ. Together with husband Thomas Gustafsson, she performs somewhat sacred music from various sources, classical, jazz as well as their own compositions. On Piece in Peace and Ori Variations (released on August 24, 2017), Thomas plays the soprano saxophone exclusively.

You can hear Thomas on many C&E albums.
Here is the Engdahl-Gustafsson site and here you find Thomas.

Elisabeth Engdahl, Thomas Gustafsson *(Photo: Emelie Asplund)*

Thomas’ great solo on the Beches Brew BIG album:

After the album release I wrote a text to his solo on Babel Twist that Jonas Knutsson wrote down, here is a video of that with notation and some photos of the other great soloists, Mats Öberg and Max Schultz: