Four days of 'other' music in Stockholm with performances by Anthony Braxton's ZIM Music Octet and a 16 person strong large ensemble playing his music, concert works and an installation by Annea Lockwood, the full live ensemble version of Sarah Hennies experimental documentary/music work 'Contralto' and concerts by Catherine Lamb & Johnny Chang's Viola Torros project, Oren Ambarchi & Crys Cole, Kassel Jaeger and a specially commissioned collaboration between Cara Tolmie and Stine Janvin.
Presented in collaboration with Fylkingen, Audiorama and the Tri-Centric Foundation with support from Musikverket, Stockholm Stad, Kulturrådet and Nordiskkulturfond.
This event is produced in collaboration with The Tri-Centric Foundation — a not-for-profit organization that supports the ongoing work and legacy of Anthony Braxton, while also cultivating and inspiring the next generation of creative artists to pursue their own visions with the kind of idealism and integrity Braxton has demonstrated throughout his long and distinguished career.
Large ensemble members are:
Kyoko Kitamura, voice (NY)
Sofia Jernberg, voice (Stockholm)
Lisa Ullén, piano (Stockholm)
Erica Dicker, violin (NY)
Tomeka Reid, cello (NY)
Finn Loxbo, guitar (Stockholm)
Elsa Bergman, contrabass (Stockholm)
Carl Testa, contrabass & electronics (New Haven)
Ville Bromander, contrabass (Stockholm)
Susana Santos Silva, trumpet (Stockholm)
Ingrid Laubrock, saxophone (NY)
Isak Hedtjärn, clarinet (Stockholm)
Johan Arrias, saxophone & clarinet (Stockholm)
Dan Peck, tuba (NY)
Erik Carlsson, drums & percussion (Stockholm)
Mattias Stahl, vibraphone (Stockholm)
Eric Ericsonhallen is situated on Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm. Bus 65 as well as Djurgårdsfärjan stops at Skeppsholmen. The closest subway station is Kungsträdgården.
The venue is wheelchair accessible and there is a handicapped toilet. There is also a handicapped parking place by the hall.
Guides go for free. Please contact us at john@edition-festival.com to prebook your ticket.
Anthony Braxton is recognized as one of the most important musicians, educators, and creative thinkers of the past 50 years, highly esteemed in the creative music community for the revolutionary quality of his work and for the mentorship and inspiration he has provided to generations of younger musicians.
Drawing upon a disparate mix of influences from John Coltrane to Karlheinz Stockhausen to Native American music, Braxton has created a unique musical system that celebrates the concept of global creativity and our shared humanity.
His work examines core principles of improvisation, structural navigation and ritual engagement-innovation, spirituality and intellectual investigation.
His many accolades include a 1981 Guggenhiem Fellowship, a 1994 MacArthur Fellowship, a 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and a 2014 NEA Jazz Master Award.
Anthony Braxton Octet
Anthony Braxton - saxophones and composition
Erica Dicker - violin
Jean Cook - violin
Tomeka Reid - cello
Ingrid Laubrock - tenor sax
Miriam Overlach - harp
Jacqueline Kerrod - harp
Dan Peck - tuba
Lisa Ullén lives in Stockholm, but grew up in the northern part of Sweden. She is a graduate of Stockholm’s Royal College of Music where she studied classical piano in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
A versatile player with a singular musical vision, Ullén has repeatedly proven her ability to imprint her absolute sense for tonal texture on whatever musical context she appears in from duos and small group collaborations with Nina de Heney and Okkyung Lee to larger ensemble situations such as Anna Högberg Attack!, Vilhelm Bromander Initiative and her own Motståndsorkestern (Resistance Orchestra).
Isak Hedtjärn plays the clarinet — a straight, metal variant of the more common wooden B flat Clarinet.
A polymath of undeniable musicality, Isak is a constant, always invigorating presence across a breadth of ‘scenes’ in Stockholm be it via in his own groups — Grismask, Svenska Folkjazzkvartetten, Festen — or making guest appearances in concert and on record with Viagra Boys, Fire! Orchestra, Rotem Geffen, Kali Malone and many many more.
His online notoriety as @JazzIsak, the deft editor of a stream of classic jazz and tiktok dance/crash mashups is not only a riotous good time but gives you some other small window into the scope and scale of his knowledge of and feeling for all the music that has gone before.
Finn Loxbo is a guitarist with a focus on free improvisation. His music is usually on either side of two dynamic extremes: quiet acoustic or very loud. On the quiet side we find him in his own ensemble Kommun, as a solo act and in collaborations with, for example, Skogen. Examples from the louder side are Kyosaku, Anna Högberg Extended Attack, and previously in bands such as Doglife, Strändernas svall and Fire! Orchestra.
Elsa Bergman studied double bass in Trondheim, Norway, at Sund Folkehøgskole and later at the Jazz Department of the Norwegian Academy of Music. Since then she has worked in various free jazz and improvisation groups.
She released her debut solo album 'A' in 2021.
Vilhelm Bromander (1988) is a Swedish bass player and composer deeply entwined in the Stockholm experimental and free jazz scene. He can be heard in groups such as Svenska Folkjazzkvartetten, Christer Bothén 3,in duo with Fredrik Rasten and with Elin Forkelid plays for Trane among others.
Vilhelm has also worked a lot with solo double bass - where he directs his focus to acoustic details such as beating, common partials and difference tones – to hear what happens with our perception when we allow ourselves to be immersed in sound for a longer stretch of time. In January -22 he also debuted as a soprano saxophone player with his new chamber work, Aurora, that was released by warm winters ltd.
As an improviser he has played with musicians like Axel Dörner, Tisha Mukarji, Michael Thieke, Sten Sandell, Phil Minton, Mazen Kerbaj, Maria W. Horn, Christer Bothén, Katt Hernandez, Lisa Ullén, Henrik Olsson to name a few. He is also an active session musician and has played with Daniel Johnston, Sara Parkman, Saigon, Musette, Joe Davolaz, Rotem Geffen, Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation, The Tiny & Music Is The Weapon.