“Music? Is this music? This is like life itself. Unless life is music. In that case, it’s music. Otherwise, it’s life.” – Niklas Rådström (translation Fred Lane)
The band has grown to nine members:
Beches Brew BIG (Shultz, Öberg, Knutsson, Bergeer, Sir T, Nord, Bellnäs, Gustafsson, Klinghagen
After the album release I wrote a text to Thomas Gustafsson’s solo that Jonas Knutsson wrote down of the opening song Babel Twist, here is a video of that with notation and some photos of the other great soloists, Mats Öberg and Max Schultz:
We release some of the material that we could not make room for as well
The album was recorded live in September 2012 by Sigge Krantz who has mixed it as well. We are so satisfied with the recordings, done in two concerts in Stockholm and Gothenburg, that we release some of the material that we could not make room for on the cd, on a digital-only album called Beches Brew BAG:
Tracks
1 Babel Twist 5:44 (TG-MÖ-MS)
2 Till Mera 8:40 (GK-LN-MS-TJ)
3 Over The Hill 6:51 (JK)
4 Penye Gahu 7:08 (GK-TG-LN)
5 Seven Stops To Heaven 3:39 (MÖ-JK-GK)
6 Metapolka 3:28
7 Djupet 3:22 (TJ-LN-MS)
8 Pain 4:36 (GK-LN-MÖ)
9 Pizza Excess 1:56
10 Edith 7:16 (TG-JG-GK)
11 Morfars Schottis 4:02 (TJ-LN-JK-TG)
Musicians
BECHES BREW BIG
Livet Nord – voice, violin
Jonas Knutsson – soprano- alto -baritone saxophones, percussion
Thomas Gustafsson – soprano- tenor saxophones
Sir Thomas Jäderlund – voice, sopranino- alto saxophones, bass clarinet
Mats Öberg – harmonica, keyboards
Göran Klinghagen – banjo, guitar
Max Schultz – voice, banjo, guitar
Stefan Bellnäs – bass
Bengt Berger – drums
Jenny Gustafsson – voice on Edith
More Info
Recorded at Nefertiti in Gothenburg and at Fasching, “the jazz musicians’ own place” in Stockholm on september 19 and 21, 2012
Recorded and mixed by Sigge Krantz
Mastered by Claes Persson, CRP Recordings
Cover by Jon Edergren, EBDC
Photos by Viktor Gårdsäter
Produced by Bengt Berger.
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