Eastern Scene In Grey Minor

by Johan Berke

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1.	Short, But Sweet no 12 00:38	info	buy track
2.	The Big Krumbukto 06:40	info	buy track
3.	Will You? 08:55	info	buy track
4.	Short, But Sweet no 15 00:22	info	buy track
5.	Sports Illustrated 05:46	info	buy track
6.	Eastern Scene In Grey Minor parts 1 & 2 12:07	info	buy track
7.	Turn Out The Stars 04:46	info	buy track
8.	Waltz For Joni 09:40	info	buy track
9.	Arvet & Skatten 07:38	info	buy track
10.	Short, But Sweet no 4 00:58	info	buy track
11.	One Of Those Days In The Life 07:53	info	buy track
12.	itsnotablues 10:44	info	buy track
13.	Atlanten 07:01	info	buy track
14.	Some Kind Of Blues 05:18	info	buy track
15.	I Thought About You 03:42	info	buy track

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Release notes as of August 2008

This double CD, the third release from Johan Berke w/Upstairs Five, Eastern Scene in Grey Minor, sees composer/guitarist Johan Berke and the musicians further explore areas present on the earlier releases with the same group: Upstairs Five (2005) and The Cactus Suite (2006).
There's the tightly arranged ensemble work on the more melodic tunes, sort of "in the tradition", then there's the free improvising within a larger framework of structure and there's the extended suite and the short pieces which hints on European Contemporary Classical with, this time around, an undefined flavour of the East.
As on the earlier CD:s the group is sometimes augmented by Jan Eriksson on Pedal & Lap Steel. This CD sees him get more room as soloist than the previous ones. Also present, as on The Cactus Suite, is electric/experimental guitarist Barry Cleveland, who has provided "atmospherical" soundscapes for the title track.

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released August 15, 2008

All compositions are by Johan Berke
except track 6, part 1 by Berke / Cleveland
track 7 by Bill Evans
track 15 by Jimmy Van Heusen

Johan Berke - electric and acoustic guitar
Örjan Hultén - tenor and soprano saxophone orjanhulten.bandcamp.com
Fredrik Nordström - tenor and alto saxophone
Filip Augustson - bass
Fredrik Rundqvist - drums

featuring Jan Eriksson, Lap Steel & Pedal Steel on track 7, 9, 11, 13 & 14
and Barry Cleveland, soundscape on track 6:1

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