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01. Christer Bothen Featuring Bolon Bata - Trance Dance
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02. Christer Bothen Featuring Bolon Bata - Mimouna
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03. Christer Bothen Featuring Bolon Bata - 9 + 10 Moving Pictures For The Ear
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ARTIST
BOTHEN FEATURING BOLON BATA, CHRISTER
TITLE
Trancedance
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
BLACK TRUFFLE
CATALOG #
BT 118LP
BT 118LP
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
5/24/2024
Black Truffle announces the first vinyl reissue of
Trancedance
, a wild slice of Swedish Afro-fusion from
Christer Bothén
, originally released in 1984. A major figure in Swedish jazz and improvised music since the 1970s, often heard on bass clarinet and tenor sax, Bothen studied doso n'koni (the large six-stringed "hunter's harp" of the Wasulu) in Mali in 1971-1972 before turning to the guinbri (the three-stringed lute of the Gnawa/Gnauoua) in Marakesh later in the decade. In between, he performed extensively with
Don Cherry
during his
Organic Music Society
period and taught Cherry the doso n'koni. In the later '70s and '80s he worked with the most important figures in the distinctive Swedish jazz-rock-world fusion scene, joining
Archimedes Badkar
for their African-influenced
Tre
and participating in
Bengt Berger
's legendary
Bitter Funeral Beer Band
. Many of the musicians who played on the Bitter Funeral Beer Band's
ECM
LP (including Berger on drums,
Anita Livstrand
on voice and percussion and
Tord Bengstsson
on piano, violin and guitar) joined Bothén for one of the sessions that produced
Trancedance
, the first release under his own name, dedicated to his compositions. The other session introduced his seven-piece group
Bolon Bata
, heard on the second track of each side. Using an expanded 16-piece ensemble, the music balances untethered improvisation with carefully arranged passages of knotty ensemble playing that at points suggest
Mingus
,
Moacir Santos
, or some of the ambitious post-free work being done in the same years by figures like
David Murray
or
Henry Threadgill
. A must for fans of the Swedish scene around groups like
Arbete och Fritid
and
Archimedes Badkar
, as well as any listener who has been seduced by
Louis Moholo
's
Spirits Rejoice!
,
The Brotherhood of Breath
, or, more recently, the guinbri grooves of
Natural Information Society
,
Trancedance
is a lost classic ripe for rediscovery.
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