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Artist:	JOHANSSON, SVEN-AKE
Title:	Schlingerland (1972)
Label:	ATAVISTIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ALP 212CD

"Stockholm, Fall 1972. Sven-Åke Johansson, up to then busy playing and recording with Peter Brötzmann, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Manfred Schoof and other leading figures of continental improvisation, as well as his own lesser-known Moderne Nordeuropäische Dorfmusik, sat down to make one of the world's unique drum documents. Johansson put Schlingerland out himself in a heretofore unseen-by-most-humans edition of several hundred, with a lovely hand-printed cover. Later, Berlin's incendiary stalwart FMP initiated its sister label SAJ by reissuing the LP. It wasn't the first solo free percussion album in Europe -- Pierre Favre and Han Bennink beat Johansson by a couple of years. But it is unlike those other percussion-centric records, focused fixatedly on the drumset. Nothing extraneous; no bells or whistles. A poem on polyrhythm. A meditation on varieties of flow and levels of intensity. And the infinite possibilities of the kit."

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