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Cool Funeral Beer update

2023-03-03 On Christmas Eve 2022 we released the first of three albums in digital format, Cool Funeral Beer -...

Two new C&E releases on October 14

2022-10-14 Dagar Brothers Junior in a one-and-half hour long Raag Multani with the unique tabla accompaniment of Ustad Z.M....

Mapou to tour Sweden in October 2022!

2022-06-19 Mapou to tour Sweden in October 2022! 14 MAPOU premiär Musikens Hus, Göteborg med Simbi & Amanda 15...

Kjell Westling remembered

2021-09-09 Last year ten years had passed since the incomparable musician genius and friend Kjell Westling passed.We wanted to...

CE43 Mapou – Nominerad till Manifest 2020!

2021-01-14 On November 19, 2020 we will released the Swedish-Haitian collaboration Mapou - Haitian drums and Northern wind by Sten Källman...

December – Christmas music!

2020-11-30 Time to listen to our classic Christmas album I will try to put up one song a day...

C&E Newsletter – November 2020

2020-11-10 Here is our Newsletter with 7 releases on  November 19-20, 2020

Bitter Funeral Beer – podcast

2020-10-06 A beautiful podcast episode about the Bitter Funeral Beer album.Andy tells us about the impact of the album...

Last concert with Beches Brew

2020-09-22 In December 2019 we did our last concert at Studio HPKSM in Gothenburg (they still have not paid...

“inimitable composer and guitarist Mr Klinghagen, the writer of this extraordinary music.”

2020-05-08 "Each of the musicians plays with idiomatic elegance, and as you are seduced you will be mesmerised by...

Hälsingland – by the lake, beside the trees

2019-10-15 On November 1st we release Göran Klinghagen's album Hälsingland, jazz music based on classical Swedish folk music songs,...

Extremely cheap CD’s and Beches Brew live on Saturday August 10!

2019-08-04 On Saturday August 1o Nefertiti in Gothenburg will host a pop-up record store. We will sell our Country...

One more prize for Hjeltamôs!

2019-04-13 Tonight Hjeltamôs won the Dalecarlia award for best folk music! We already won the Grammy for best folk music...

Two videos by Akkarai Sisters from their Swedish visit in 2018

2019-01-24 In October 2018 Akkarai Sisters visited Sweden for concerts together with the Berger Knutsson Spering Schultz group. They...

Country & Eastern Newsletter – June 4, 2018

2018-06-04 If you did not receive today's newsletter in the mail you find it HERE!

Interview with the C&E artistic advisor

2018-04-02 Todo Mundo just published an interview with Bengt Berger.

ONE CHRISTMAS SONG A DAY FROM DECEMBER 1

2017-11-30 The tradition continues: MERRY CHRISTMAS! From December 1 and all thru Christmas you will hear one new Christmas song...

Berger Knutsson Spering Schultz in Korea

2017-10-14 In October 2017 we toured South Korea, playing at the Sejong Festival and in various jazz clubs in...

Our 2017 releases are out!

2017-08-24 Animated GIF, click it, it works.

First video from the Beches Indian Brew album

2017-08-09 Here is a relaxed version of "Congo Square" from the recording of Beches Indian Brew, filmed at Kulturhuset...

Moki Cherry and her art in Don’s music

2017-05-31 At Baltimore Kissa Society you find a site with a great article about Moki Cherry and her art, especially...

Photos from the Bucky Dome in 1971 and 2012

2017-03-05 I just upped some photos from the Bucky Dome that was kindly provided by Moderna Muséet on my...

Beches Indian Brew – Swedish tour concluded – wonderful response

2017-02-18 Thank you all for a wonderful tour. We had full houses in Stockholm and Umeå and feel very...

C&E Newsletter – Januari 2017

2017-02-17 Farewell concerts in 2017 ! Country & Eastern newsletter Januari 2017 At the end of the summer I'll be...

C&E nyhetsbrev – Januari 2017

2017-02-17 Avskedskonserter 2017 ! Country & Easterns nyhetsbrev Januari 2017 När sommaren tar slut fyller jag 75 och tänker att 2017...

Last chance to hear Akkarai Sisters’ Stockholm concert

2017-02-17 I just want to remind you that today or maybe tomorrow is the last day to hear Akkarai...

Ullén – Berger – Hernandez – Ström

2017-01-31 Our names are Lisa Ullén, Bengt Berger, Kat Hernandez and Nikke Ström. We play piano, drums, violin and bass....

SIMBA – Månadens Indie: Country & Eastern

2016-12-27 Swedish Independent Music Business Alternative presents Indie of the Month for December 2016 - in Swedish

2002 Fyra Indiska Mästare 3 – Shivakumar-Sridhar-Maruti-Shyam

2016-11-29 Last video, a Hindustani-Karnatic Jugalbandi with K. Srivakumar,violin K. Sridhar, sarod, Maruti Kurdekar, tabla and Shyam Venkataraman, mridangam....

Raag Madhuvanti w K. Sridhar and Maruti Kurdekar (2002)

2016-11-27 Raag Madhuvanti w compositions in Teental w K. Sridhar, sarod and Pandit Taranath's disciple Maruti Kurdekar, tabla. From...

“EDITH” ON TOUR – video with updated sound uploaded

2016-11-25   Beches Indian Brew on tour in India and Sweden during 2016. Various versions of Edith, a piece...

Today! New music to be made!

2016-11-14 There is a small place in Stockholm by the name of Rökridån where experiments of various kinds are being made....

Beches Indian Brew – Swedish tour concluded – wonderful response

2016-11-05 Thank you all for a wonderful tour. We had full houses in Stockholm and Umeå and feel very...

Last concert on Beches Indian Brew tour + Edith video

2016-10-28 Saturday morning you can hear the Akkarai Sisters in Umeå and in the evening we play our last...

Copenhagen, Malmö last two days. Tonight we play Kristianstad

2016-10-22 Beches Indian Brew played Copenhagen on the 20th,  Malmö last night and at 7 pm we play at Kulturkvarteret...

Drawings by Martin Ehrling from our first concert

2016-10-18 On October 16 we gave our first Beches Indian Brew concert in Stockholm. Martin Ehrling did these. The...

Our first concert at 4 p.m. today (October 16)

2016-10-16 Beches Indian Brew is having the first show today at Kulturhuset in Stockholm.

Country & Eastern Newsletter – September 2016

2016-09-19 The Country & Eastern September 2016 Newsletter is here but if you didn't get, send a mail to info(at)countryandeastern.se or...

Here is our September Newsletter

2016-09-18 The Country & Eastern September 2016 Newsletter is here but if you didn't get, send a mail to info(at)countryandeastern.se

The Beches Indian Brew ingredients 1, from India:

2016-09-02 Presenting the participants, great musicians from India, Ghana and Sweden. Today we introduce violin and vocal by Akkarai Sisters, khanjira...

Beches Indian Brew – concert tour October 16 – 29

2016-09-01 Thanks to a grant from Musikverket we have been able to visit India twice during the last twelve...

Huge update of the Country & Eastern site!

2016-08-31 There might still be some minor problems and some photos and stuff are not uploaded yet, but basically...

Apart & Pizza Excess w Beches Brew from TISS in Mumbai 20160112

2016-07-01 Joyful versions of Apart and Pizza Excess from our Beches Indian Brew tour, recorded at Tata Institute of...

Mridangam great K. U. Jayachandra Rao in Beches Indian Brew

2016-06-13 He is one of the stalwarts in the world of Indian rhythm today and regularly performs with all...

”Kanjira Man” with Beches Indian Brew in October

2016-06-09 B. Shree Sundarkumar is one of the leading Kanjira artists in the world of Rhythm music. Having entered...

Shree Sundarkumar, ”Kanjira Man”

2016-06-02 B. Shree Sundarkumar is one of the leading Kanjira artists in the world of Rhythm music. Having entered...

K. U. Jayachandra Rao, mridangam

2016-06-02 He is one of the stalwarts in the world of Indian rhythm today and regularly performs with all...

Senior Master Drummer Doe Kushiator (Ghana) joins Beches Indian Brew

2016-05-31 Beches Indian Brew gets a spicy ingredient when Doe Kushiator will join for the October tour! Senior Master...

Beches Brew live @ Blue Frog, Mumbai

2016-05-31 A video by Jöns Jönsson from our gig at the Blue Frog in Mumbai on January 14, 2016....

The Akkarai Sisters will join Beches Indian Brew in October

2016-05-16 Akkarai Sisters, Akkarai Subhalakshmi and Akkarai Sornalatha, violin, voice: We are SO proud and happy that the sisters...

Akkarai Sisters

2016-05-16 Akkarai Sisters, Akkarai Subhalakshmi and Akkarai Sornalatha, violin, voice: ”The two sisters have created quite a storm in...

Bengt Berger, drums, composer, leader

2016-05-05 ” There is vorticist movement in percussion colorist Bengt Berger's music. Like a whirling fluid mass slingshot around the...

Max Schultz, guitars, banjo

2016-05-03 ”Guitarist Max Schultz is a revelation, an inventive player with a sublime sense of melody.”  Max Schultz is...

Göran Klinghagen, guitars, banjo

2016-05-03 ”Klinghagen reevaluates fusion, mid-60s Miles Davis, and Ornette Coleman, melding these and other influences into a unique musical...

Jonas Knutsson, saxophones

2016-05-03 Jonas Knutsson, saxophones “Knutsson is also one of the most expressive saxophonists playing today. Combine this with his flawless...

Thomas Gustafsson, saxophones

2016-05-03 ”He plays the tenor and the soprano saxophone as if they were a prolongation of himself. His way...

Sir Thomas Jäderlund, saxophones, bass clarinet

2016-05-03 ”Breathtaking virtuosity and impeccable taste by a saxophonist with the whip-like crack of Eric Dolphy’s alto and a...

Lise-Lotte Norelius, percussion, live electronics

2016-05-02 "Norelius makes difficult music fun to listen to in a consequent and personal artistry with room for humour...

Stefan Bellnäs, bass, steel guitar

2016-05-01 ”He plays anything from metal to folk music as if it is his very speciality” Stefan Bellnäs hails...

Sigge Krantz, sound engineer

2016-05-01 ”For a project like this you need the best possible sound engineer and we got him!” Bass and...

“Jädermeister” from the India tour

2016-04-24 We are preparing some more videos from our Indian tour. In these we will focus not on the...

The first video from the January tour: “Happy Hindu”, Mumbai 2016

2016-02-05 On January 12, 2016 we played our last concert in Celebration of tabla guru Pandit Taranath Centenary in...

Beches Brew’s concerts in India – grand success!!!

2016-01-04 On the morning of January 3 we gave our concert in Chennai together with the four marvelous Karnatic...

On December 28 Beches Brew leaves for Chennai and Mumbai!

2015-12-27 There will be no album deliveries while we are in India. You may buy albums from our site...

Spjärnsvallet in Denmark last week

2015-12-16 These three young men could be heard in Aarhus and at Global in Copenhagen last week. Bengt Berger, Christer...

“Ethereal beauty Thomas Tidholm, Jonas Knutsson: Orsa By Night”

2015-12-07 Raul da Gama gives us one more incredibly well written review of our album Orsa at Night with...

After 19 years the Berger Knutsson Spering trio found a fourth member…..Max Schultz! Now we release our first album BLUE BLUE!

2015-09-08 WELCOME TO RELEASE CONCERTS W BENGT BERGER, JONAS KNUTSSON, CHRISTIAN SPERING AND MAX SCHULTZ ON THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND...

Presenting our september releases 1: BLUE BLUE

2015-08-16 After 19 years as a trio, Berger Knutsson Spering found a fourth member and its Max Schultz. Here is...

Jonas Knutsson turns 50 today – Congratulations!

2015-06-25 Jonas Knutsson is a very important part of Country & Eastern. Not only as a member of Berger...

Peter Sjöblom om våra senaste två skivor

2015-06-11 In "Tidningen Kulturen" you will find the most inspired music critique (if you read swedish): Det är i...

Max Schultz joins Berger Knutsson Spering – first album just recorded

2015-05-25 A week back Max Schultz joined Berger Knutsson Spering for a recording in the lovely Atlantis studio. Mixing...

Spjärnsvallet goes vinyl – release concerts

2015-05-09 The Gothenburg label Omlott has licensed Again and Again and is releasing a vinyl version with their own cover art on May...

Good reviews of last years releases arrived today!

2015-03-02 The new issue of Orkesterjournalen carries very positive reviews in swedish of our albums with Thomas Jäderlund Amazing...

OLD AND NEW DREAMS -our new club, next on saturday 28/2

2015-02-22 OLD AND NEW DREAMS Musical meetings on the last saturday every month January 31 LAS VEGA was back...

OLD AND NEW DREAMS – our new club opened on january 31

2015-01-19 OLD AND NEW DREAMS Musical meetings on the last saturday every month January 31 LAS VEGA is back...

Christmas, off to India, no January deliveries etc

2014-12-15 This is the complete Christmas playlist at our site day by day during december. I will not be...

Three days of release concerts starting TODAY!

2014-11-18 TONIGHT (Nov 18): Thomas Jäderlund Amazing Trio at Glenn Miller Café in Stockholm TOMORROW (Nov 19): Thomas Jäderlund Amazing...

Our November e-mail newsletters

2014-11-02 Info about our 2014 releases and release concerts: Here is the english e-mail: http://www.countryandeastern.se/category/2014-november-eng/ och den svenska e-posten: http://www.countryandeastern.se/category/newsletter/2014-november-swe/ If you...

Spjärnsvallet releases AGAIN AND AGAIN! in concert on December 8

2014-11-01 Country & Eastern is very happy to announce the release of the album AGAIN AND AGAIN with SPJÄRNSVALLET at a...

Xylofonorkestern releases STORA BLÅ! Concert on December 8

2014-10-25 Country & Eastern is very happy to announce the release of the album "STORA BLÅ" ("BIG BLUE" -...

Four new C&E releases coming up! – October 2014 Newsletter

2014-10-19 All of the Country & Eastern releases in 2014 arrive in November this year. One great jazz album,...

Four new C&E Releases coming up! – October 2014 Newsletter

2014-10-19 All of the Country & Eastern releases in 2014 arrive in November this year. One great jazz album,...

Musical Jackpot but economic disaster – LAS VEGA CLOSED

2014-10-13 When you play music that’s not all that mainstream one of the most important recordings in the history...

Musical Jackpot but economic disaster – LAS VEGA CLOSED

2014-10-12 When you play music that’s not all that mainstream one of the most important recordings in the history...

Soon, very soon!

2014-08-28 Soon, very soon!

C&E on Soundcloud

2014-08-13 We have updated our Soundcloud site with free samples from all later releases. Try it when in need...

Fanart from Japan

2014-07-12 Japanese manga artist Harukichi just send us fanart from the duet album with Kjell Westling from 1977. Two more...

Songlines: NOW is one of the best albums of the last 6 months!

2014-07-07 Next chance to hear Ellika Solo Rafael is at Stockholm Folk Festival on August 8. If you can't...