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Samuel Hällkvist
He is a new name for me. He plays with Isuldurs Bane and is the guitarist on Yazz Ahmeds 'la Saboteuse' but he also released a lot of solo albums.
They are all on bandcamp so I figured I might try one.
I got 'Variety of life' ( https://samuelhallkvist.bandcamp.com...ariety-of-live)
Why? Well, it has a rather impressive line up, namely;
the Variety of Loud ensemble
Samuel Hällkvist, guitars, devices, MIDI programming
Pat Mastelotto, traps & buttons
Qarin Wikström, voice & keys
Guy Pratt, bass
Stefan Pasborg, drums
with special guests
Richard Barbieri - Keyboards, Synthesizers, Programming.
Mocca 木歌 - voice
Yazz Ahmed - trumpet
Denys Baptiste - sax
Yukiko Taniguchi - voice
And the music is pretty good too. Instrumental music, however there are voices but no words. Somewhere on the boarder of (prog)rock, jazz, ambient and electronic but all rather experimental in nature. Very impressed after just a couple of plays.
Any other fans of him on this board? which other albums do you recommend?
Last edited by thedunno; 10-18-2017 at 10:27 AM.
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Apart from Variety Of Live and the new Isildurs Bane I only have one track from Variety Of Loud which is featured on Pat Mastelotto's compilation-album Recidiviate.
So I can't recommend anything.
But I guess it oké to say Hällkvist is somewhat from the David Torn-school.
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His brand new album, Variety of Rhythm, is amazing. Features (among others) David Torn, Dick Lövgren (bass, Meshuggah), Katrine Amsler (keyboards, Isildurs Bane & Television Pickup) and Liesbeth Lambrecht (violin, Aranis and Flairck). One long track, polyrhythmic, varied and unclassifiable with a superb sound. It's on Samuel's Bandcamp site.
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