Multiverse musicians Goran Kajfeš and Mats Gustafsson direct their cosmic ear inward, outward and forward towards a creative and spiritual improvised music together with a newly created super-group.
Trumpeter Kajfeš and saxophone player Gustafsson have for several years nurtured a desire to put together a smaller ensemble for composed and improvised freer jazz.
After a number of collaborations in larger ensembles such as Fire! Orchestra, has now given them the opportunity, together with their hero and master Christer Bothén, to build on the foundation laid by the Bolon Bata founder.
Cosmic Ear mixes original material by Kajfeš, Gustafsson and Bothén with works by Don Cherry, Codona and Frank Lowe in a unique mix of music originating in Mali’s hunter music, Moroccan Gnawa traditions, Swedish folk music, South American percussion, free improvised music and free jazz.
Under the slogan: Music is NOW! Nu music! this Swedish super band takes jazz club Fasching with an arsenal of Brazilian berimbau, Malian donso ngoni, North African karignan, South American percussion, bells and trumpets, clarinets and saxophones and flutes laid on top of a steady, frenetic double bass and electronic mats, creating a contemporary music never before heard.
Cosmic Ear
Goran Kajfeš – trumpet, pocket trumpet, synth, electronics, percussion
Mats Gustafsson – tenor sax, flute, recorder, ab clarinet, live electronics, organ, harmonica
Christer Bothén – donso ngoni, bass clarinet, double bass clarinet, piano
Kansan Zetterberg – bass, donso ngoni
Juan Romero – congas, berimbau and percussion
