Konsertrecension: Goran Kajfes is expanding jazz's boundaries with Andreas Tilliander

Goran Kajfes is no jazz musician who gets in their reading. Instead, he has many times sought and found inspiration far beyond the genre's limits of the law. The cds ”The reason why vol. 1” to ”The reason why vol 3” from the years 2012 to 2017 was as a kind of creative self-declaration; Kajfes has been formed into the person he is by so disparate and more or less well-known influences such as the ethiopian ceremoniledaren Hailu Mergia, the Turkish singer Edip Akbayram and the multi-talented, brazilian composer Arthur Verocai. Or take, for that matter, the most recent example: A series of different collaborations at Kulturhuset stadsteatern's temporary stage Over the fountain, located right under the pool with the obelisk at Sergels torg.

this evening, he does a duet with electronica and dansmusikproducenten Andreas Tilliander. And the interesting thing will be at the same time that the Kajfes, in fact, still is a jazz musician, well versed in styles, shapes, and trumpeters before him. It provides a context and a soundboard, which is absolutely crucial in the sense of what he can do but choose to let be – for the sake of something else.

Tillianders electronics and sound art, carpets of distinctive sounds that at the same time broken down and resurrected, not to drum sounds and beats, but with rytmiken highlighted by the steep truncated sound rather pulsating in changing intervals.

At the beginning uses Kajfes a damper, perhaps a little defiant in the greeting - it is so given – to Miles Davis. But on the whole, I rather think of some of the nordic forerunners in jazz, as the dane Palle Mikkelborg, Swedish Staffan Svensson and – though he of course plays the guitar instead of the trumpet – the Norwegian Terje Rypdal.

in the way to work with the sound in the room – or, perhaps, even vice versa. A subtle, scandinavian tradition, which also means that a sense of internal trip flips out toward the listener in an enigmatic state in the middle between thought and action, dream and reality. This time, that is. The next concert in the series will be with the percussion ensemble plus the saxophonist Jonas Kullhammar.

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