STEN SANDELL - NOW OR NEVER (BAUTA RECORDS, 1988)

A1. Dance No. 87
A2. One Day Before
A3. The Meeting
A4. Chains And Pedals
A5. Stumple And Rumble
A6. Dance No. 88
A7. Pro And Con
A8. The Procession

B1. Lungs And Legs
B2. Pro And Con
B3. Three Months Later
B4. The Sound From A Fox
B5. Dance No. 85
B6. ... Or Never


Raymond Strid, drums
Ulf Strandberg, drums
Sören Runolf, electric guitar
Sten Sandell, piano, sampling, percussion
Johan Petri, soprano saxophone
Mats Gustafsson, tenor and baritone saxophone
Marie Selander, vocals

Recorded Spring 1988

Bauta Records ‎– BAR 8803

LP Rip

STEN SANDELL ‎– DAMP (BAUTA RECORDS, 1985)

A1. Damp
A2. Perhentian
A3. To Be

B1. Ahead
B2. Flowing (To Sanna)
B3. The End, And


Sören Runolf, electric guitar
Sten Sandell, prepared piano, synthesizer, percussion, gong

Bauta Records ‎– BAR 8502

LP Rip

SVEN-ÅKE JOHANSSON & STEN SANDELL "BAHN & BOOT" - LIVE

A shorter recording from a duo which released a long OOP Mini-CD in 1997 - see here.
Sung/spoken or better a kind of 'Sprechgesang' similar to Schönberg's 'Pierrot Lunaire'.
At least that's how I tend to hear Sven-Åke Johansson's vocal utterances.
Text is in German - but the sounds might be enjoyed anyway.


Sven-Åke Johansson, voice
Sten Sandell, piano

1. 3:45
2. 4:21
3. 2:35
4. 1:52
5. 4:01
5. 3:07


Recorded in Ulrichsberg, Austria during the 'Kaleidophon' in May 1998

GUSH - ELECTRIC EEL (QBICO, 2005)

A1. EL
B1. AL Part 1
B2. AL Part 2


Sten Sandell, electronics, piano, harmonium, voice
Raymond Strid, guitar, percussion, amplified and processed instruments, objects
Mats Gustafsson, fluteophone, flute, sopranino recorder, soprano vocals, tenor and baritone saxophone


Recorded November 6th, 1996 at Blue Tower Sound System at Fylkingen, Stockholm.
Mastered March 2004 at Alibi Studios, Gustafsberg.

Qbico ‎– QBICO 30

Vinyl Rip

GUSH & SVEN-ÅKE JOHANSSON "TJO OCH TJIM" (DRAGON, 1989)

A meeting of Gush with the idiosyncratic singing (plus accordion) of Sven-Åke Johansson - in swedish and german.




GUSH & SVEN-ÅKE JOHANSSON "TJO OCH TJIM"


Mats Gustafsson,sops,ss,ts,flutophone
Sten Sandell,p,sampler
Raymond Strid,perc,g,banjo
Sven-Åke Johansson,voc,acc


01. Tjo Och Tjim 02:54
02. Quartet VII 04:09
03. Ajax 02:00
04. Quartet IX 03:08
05. Platt År Lusens Huvud 03:11
06. Duo II 02:16
07. Transmissionsförbundets Remmar 03:22
08. Duo IV 03:05
09. Räven Kastar Loss 02:28
10. Quartet VII 04:13
11. Myrslokens Besök 03:17

Recorded at Fylkingen, Stockholm, August 1989.

DRAGON DRLP 192

LOKOMOTIV KONKRET (2nd LP - URSPÅR, 1979)

This is the earliest recording with Sten Sandell.
At least the first side sounds more like "Industrial" than Free Jazz/Improvisation.
Dror Feiler - the "leader" of this group is also a well known contemporary composer.
His compositions are mostly harsh and noisy and beautiful.
At least once a group of contemporary musicians refused to play a composition - which was announced only very shortly before the concert. They said that his music were too loud, although the same musicians rehearsed the piece before...
Does nowadays scandals come rather from the musicians than from the public?

Hear for yourself.



LOKOMOTIV KONKRET "LOKOMOTIV KONKRET"


Tommy Björk,dr
Dror Feiler,sops,as,cl,bassett-horn,cbcl,synth
Sören Runolf,vc
Sten Sandell,p

1. Ovation 06:17
2. Fragment 01:10
3. Vakuum 04:36
4. Bön 07:05
5. Siciliansk öppning 03:26
6. Konstruktion 08:01
7. Axiom 03:51
8. Homage 05:05


Recorded at Fasching and Modern Museum,Stockholm, August 1979.


URSPÅR URS 4


(Flac and cover - link in comment)