Joxfield - "Live Joxfield Vol.1" - Upcoming Release This Month

New upcoming release this month on Tin Can Music!

Joxfield - Live Joxfield Vol.1

In July 2017 Joxfield played quite different versions of the same tune “Crackle” for four days live in Bråna Dalsland. Sweden, as a conceptual project.

Here are some parts of it.

The music presented is hypnotic and beautiful with lots of stuff happening within the musical frames, an effect when city boys meet on the countryside to perform together.

They have since continued with new Joxfield music, but also developed new projects like The Global Researchers

and Etherwink & Larwott.

Joxfield is Janne Yan Andersson & Stefan Oax Ek

Limited edition of CDr will be found at Discreet Music

Streaming and digital download will occure from Tin Can Music Bandcamp.

Beware! Be Aware! Be There!

 

Joxfield ProejX' Live Explorations

Joxfield ProejX prepared for Live Explorations @ Camp Bråna, Summer 2017

Joxfield ProjeX ‎– Live At The Kolpebo Festival October 2005

Joxfield ProjeX ‎– Live At The Kolpebo Festival October 2005 (CDR Tin Can Music)
A companion album to Nothing But Sofas
The 3rd release 
December 2005
Limited to about 20 copies which were given away.

Joxfield ProjeX / ADW @ C Bråna

Joxfield ProjeX @ C Bråna July 1st 2017.
Gathered for a week of live explorations and recordings of semi-structured/improvised tune Crackle which led to eight versions, 17 - 26 minutes long. And next step leading from here is still written in the sand.

Summer! TooDeLoo!

Summer!
And the hard work for new music and new approaches to music continues constantly!
See Ya!

Joxfield ProjeX 2017?

Joxfield ProjeX 2017?

Well, of course there will be some new music, possibly some new release/s, if we get things together and if there is someone willing to release.

But, most of all, 2017 will bring us into some new territories, where we've never been before. More info on that later this year.

Beware! Be Aware! Be There!

Fire! Orchestra - Mighty Exit Version from Minor Big Band

Nevertheless - something to spend during Xmas..
To good to sleep around on Youtube...







And in January the Big Big Bad version of Fire! Orchestra will be present at Nef in Gothenburg. Yes!!!!

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Oax Pick - Ian Paice

Gillan, yeahyeahyeah, BlackmoreGloverLord, yeahyeahyeah.
BUT, the driving thunderous power force of the band was Ian Paice's drumming. Glorious and send down from the gods. A hard rock heavy metal percussion genius.
Now it was said!!!

We were happy to see the band playing live 4th of February 1973 in Gothenburg during their haydays.

Setlist:

Highway Star
Smoke on the Water
Strange Kind of Woman
Child in Time
Mary Long
Lazy
Space Truckin'

Encore:
Speed King
Lucille
(Little Richard cover)

I use to talk about this concert with my kids, remembering Ian Gillan saying "We're gonna play s song from our new album Machine Head, it's called Smoke on the Water". Those were the days.

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Yeah, We Love Him, Mighty Daevid!

Daevid Allen performing "Whisky Oh!" with the Wild Zinnias. St Patrick's Day 2012, The Rails Hotel, Byron Bay, Australia. Film by Slim Pickins.

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Mwendo Dawa - Live at Montreux - THE VIDS!!!

What a surprise!
One day I write a couple of words on Mwendo Dawa's live album from Montreux 1979, and the other day I find two clips from the same concert.
"Life is funny, life is free, got all them goodies come up to me..." (T Kupferberg)
Enjoy!




And anyone who wants to explore this great band, these great musicians, check the web of Susanna and Ove's own label, lj-records:

http://www.lj-records.se

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Swedish Azz & Gunnar Lindgren & Gilbert Holmström - Nefertiti 2012-03-02

Mighty Mighty Mighty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Two days ago Oax n Yan, the infamous duo of JoxProX + MCN, the official president of the unofficial JoxProX fan club + Wolf, ehhr, The Wolf, took our long legs in direction to the legendary jazz-blues-freeform-whatever club Nefertiti to watch and listen to Swedish Azz, Mats G's and Per Åke H's band who pays and plays tribute to known and unknown treasures from the Swedish jazz scene of mainly the 50's and 60's and put it into context of today. This night they were guested by Gunnar Lindgren and Gilbert Holmström, two legends!
The concert lasted for maybe 2 hours, probably one of the 10 best concerts we've ever been at (and I'm talking about loads of concerts over the last 40 years).
The track above is the encore.

Below you'll find Gilbert's composition 'Fåglarna' (The Birds), here played for the second time ever (the first time was on Swedish national radio 1966). An abstract, wonderful composition.



The vids shot by some DaniOost (thanX for this cultural deed) who we didn't notice, but from the angle point of view it could have been us, because it seems to be exactly from the position where we sat...


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Oax Pick - Träd Gräs & Stenar - Gärdet 12.6.1970

Träd Gräs & Stenar - Gärdet 12.6.1970 (Subliminal Sounds, Ti'llindien CD 1996, Subliminal Sounds 2xLP 2011)


Träd Gräs & Stenar 1970


Träd Gräs & Stenar 1971


Träd Gräs & Stenar 2012

A couple of weeks ago I went to see a gig by the legendary Swedish prog-psych-trance band Träd Gräs & Stenar.
Except some intermissions of various length they have been around since late 60's as Pärson Sound > International Harvester > Harvester > Träd Gräs & Stenar. The members of the groups has been the same more or less. The core for longest time has been Bo Anders Persson (guitar, vox), Thomas Mera Gartz (drums, vox), Jakob Sjöholm (guitar, vox) & Torbjörn Abelli (bass, vox).
A couple of years ago Bo Anders took the decision to quit, partly because of tinnitus, maybe a bit tired of touring and maybe because of reaching a respectfully age. The band decided to go on with Reine Fiske (Dungen, etc) as new force on solo guitar.
In summer 2010 Torbjörn sadly passed away in borelia.
At least I thought I'd seen the band for the last time. Obviously, after some time had slipped, they took another decision, to go on with Sigge Krantz on bass. Sigge might have avoide the spotlight but had been around for years as musician, recording engineer etc, so he was a part of the movement, so to speak.
When watching their concert they also had added Thomas Tidholm (sax, flute, vox) who had been a member of the band before the TG&S incarnation.
My expectation was rather high and I wasn't disappointed. All guys are great musicians, they mix long improvised, psychedelic space-trance-minimalistic powerful tunes with shorter written tunes with vocals. All within the frame of their unique sound. Second set added Thomas T and it all when into sung-based material even though it also went away for longer instrumental parts. As someone said, Thomas is kind of the Tuli Kupferberg of the band. He was so funny and thoughtful, delivering bananas to the audience.
There was no actual merchandise, but I saw that Jakob had a plastic bag with some vinyl albums and as I knew they recently had released the 'Gärdet 12.6.1970' live CD in a vinyl version I asked him if he had a copy of that. This very humble and polite guy had to excuse, he did only have one copy left and he had promised it to a 20-year old girl in the audience. "Of course she shall have it", I said, happy to know that the youngsters are attractive to these phychedelic sounds. Jakob said he thought the vinyl edition might be sold out, but when back home he could check it out by the guy responsible for the release, if there was any left and then send it to me. "Great" I said and we exchenged email addresses. A couple of days ago there was an email in my inbox: "I've found a copy and I've send it to you, you can pay to my account..." and the next day it was in my snail-mail box.
The album? Holy cow, I've heard it on CD, but now, with this expanded 2 x LP version on beautiful splash colour vinyl - what a sound! what a dynamic! what music!!! and also added a sidelong 22 minute track as a bonus. Mighty, mighty, this is good!!!
So, thanX Jakob for being such a nice and generous fellow doing this great gesture.

The festival of Gärdet? It should be at Skeppsholmen in the central of Stockholm as the first alternative, non-commercial, out-door festival in Sweden. The residental companies and offices at this tiny island did protest and the police said No to the event just the day before and some very quick arrangemtns had to be done to move it to the Gärdet field about 5 kilometers from there.

But they came back later... (TBC)

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Fire Orchestra ! ! !

Friday January 13th 2012.
No bad luck in sight - But Fire Orchestra!!! Yes!!!
Playing the 1 hour piece 'Exit'
Live @ Fylkingen, Stockholm.
29 musicians joining in, playing the new piece EXIT! with lyrics by Arnold de Boer (Zea, The EX)
Attack & beauty.
A mighty nice event visited and appreciated by Yan & Oax, The Dynamic Duo.
Also nice saying Hello to Jocke, the iDealist, as well as Koloni-Christian, people who makes the ordinary life a bit more beautiful, less complicated.



After that the evening was fullfilled by visiting Soldat Svejk, the genuine Czech pub, spending hours by their beer taps...



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Classic ! ! !

Can't resist this piece of art.
Joe Yamanaka was the original lead singer of Flower Travelli' Band when they released their super classic Japanese prog-psych album Satori in 1971.
This live version can't be more than 5-10 years old and he still has his strange voice kept in good condition.
I have no idea who the other musicians are, but I doubt any of them are from the original FTB line up. The three drummers in a row are nice...
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GONG - Escape Control Delete

Aahh, Give Me Sweet Potato.
50 seconds of interviewing, then the Muzak, bringing back memories from early summer 2009.
Summer? Remember that un-snowy period of the year?
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On A Monday Evening...

This is the place where you can spend some time a monday evening i Gothenholm Stockburg.
The iDEALIST Joachim N arranges some openminded mindblowers.
First the wonderful, expressive Italian Jooklu Duo with Virginia Genta blowing her lungs in and out on saxes/flutes/rizzlerazzles while David Vanzan's intense drummings washes the floor like a Tsunami. Impressive.
Magnificent free jazz.

Then...
Borbetomagus...

What can I say?
When Donald Miller first touches his guitar and all you hear is a SCREAM of sounds from the underground, immediately hit by Jim Sauter's and Don Dietrich's frantic tenorplaying. Constantly, breathless.
If J Duo was a Tsunami this is the energy of a dwarf planet concentrated, it's like all earthquakes gathers as one, it's..... yes, it's.
The floor starts bleeding, the walls expands. It's music, it's not music, it's music... Constructed, de-constructed. And then the guys turns their sax clocks to each other, like two satelites docking each other, and the sound from each saxophone expands into something.... what?
Energy is the word. Two lengthly tunes.
I almost never stick my fingers into my ears when listening to live music, but here I had to. And still the sounds did hit me as if it was from trucks crashing right in front of me.
And it was wonderful TakeNoPrisoner - NoCompromise noise, loud as hell, but also became ambient in some way. A physical drone.
And unconsciously you starts think about music/sounds/noise from a philosophical point of view, where one starts and ends, where the other takes over, starts and ends, and on and on.

Then home to sleep.
Bells where ringing...
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