CONSISTENCY, by Johan Berke Upstairs Five

CONSISTENCY

by Johan Berke Upstairs Five

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1.	Anything Can Still Happen 09:44	info	buy track
2.	Short, But Sweet no 23 01:00	info	buy track
3.	Centipede 06:04	info	buy track
4.	Portrait #3 08:30	info	buy track
5.	Shelter 07:05	info	buy track
6.	Wiry Existence 01:05	info	buy track
7.	The Chief Ingredient 10:36	info	buy track
8.	Resemblance 08:16	info	buy track
9.	Short, But Sweet no 24 01:04	info	buy track

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Release notes as of December 2013:

The seventh release from Johan Berke Upstairs Five contains only previously unreleased original compositions by Berke, recorded May, 2013.

The current line-up is premiered on this recording and contains phenomenal trumpet player Nils Janson, who also was featured on the Phono Suecia-release: Scope - music by Fredrik Nordström and Johan Berke (PSCD181 / 2009) (which saw the jazz quintet augmented by a brass quintet). Virtuoso electric guitar player Håkan Goohde is back after a break but the rhythm-section is, as usual, the creative tandem of Filip Augustson & Fredrik Rundqvist.

Stylistically Consistency it’s somewhat more lyrical and traditional in it’s content than the previous, energetic live-album: OPEN DOOR (2012), with emphasis on melodic themes and solos on chord changes rather than the free improvisation within a larger framework of structure, which has been a big part of the groups other earlier releases: Upstairs Five (2004), The Cactus Suite (2006), double-cd Eastern Scene in Grey Minor (2008), and Nordic Scenes in Chromatic Blue (2011).

Consistency is mostly a statement of the melodic inventivness this group possess!

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released December 15, 2013

Nils Janson - trumpet
Håkan Goohde - electric guitar (left side)
Johan Berke – electric and acoustic guitar
Filip Augustson - bass
Fredrik Rundqvist - drums

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