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Gothenburg

Beches Brew or Bengt Berger

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“full of captivating dramas and an engaging interplay, that keeps linger in your head for days” – Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts

Live gigs in Gothenburg

During all of 2018 Beches Brew had the opportunity to play for a small devoted group of listeners at Studio HPKSM in Gothenburg every Saturday afternoon. We decided to record as a lot happened in our music when we played so often. With support from Nikke Ström we recorded at Music A Matic studios with Filip Leyman at the knobs. This is the album.

The West Coast Edition of Beches Brew is mostly a quintet but Staffan Svensson and Viktor joins us sometimes, here they are important voices on two of the pieces, LineSeniL and Mingus.

Big thanks to Nikke Ström and to Georg, Anton and Maja for having us at Studio HPKSM all of 2018.

Peter Jansson, Thomas Gustafsson, Göran Klinghagen, Bengt Berger, Sir Thomas Jäderlund (photo: Anders Sundqvist)

Gothenburg Live

Apart from this studio album producer Monica Palmeborn did a live recording from HPKSM for the Jazzradion at Swedish Radio. This was broadcasted last summer and as the live music takes different turns compared to a studio recording we decided to release a suite from that as a separate half hour long digital-only album, Gothenburg Live (CEX23). This album is offered free of charge to you who bought the cd. On the cd you will find a password to download or listen to the live album.

Reviews

Reviews in English: Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts, Raul da Gama, Jazz Journal,
in Norwegian by Tor Hammerø
and Swedish: Peter Sjögren, MONO and DIG Jazz:

Musicians

Stefan Bellnäs, beyzz
Bengt Berger, drums
Thomas Gustafsson, soprano
Sir Thomas Jäderlund, sopranino, alto, bass clarinet
Göran Klinghagen, guitar
Viktor Reuter, double bass on LineSeniL and Mingus
Staffan Svensson, trumpet on LineSeniL and Mingus

Lately double bass maestro Peter Janson has joined as Stefan Bellnäs left.

More info

Recorded on May 5-6 at Music A Matic Studios, Gothenburg by Filip Leyman. Mixing by Filip Leyman, Thomas Gustafsson, Bengt Berger
Released on November 3, 2018
Mastering by Claes Persson, CRP Recordings
Graphic design by Jon Edergren, SPEKTRA
Cover art by Andreas Samuelsson
Produced by Bengt Berger and Nikke Ström
If you bought this CD you are entitled to Gothenburg Live, follow the link at www.countryandeastern.se/gothenburglive
You find the password under the cd.

Here you can download the iTunes booklet
Here is the English Newsletter about these two albums and here it is in Swedish.
If you downloaded the album and want to burn a cd, here is a pocket for i t.
All music by Bengt Berger

Thanks to our faithful audience that shows up every Saturday afternoon.