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How dare we spend so much valuable energy answering such questions as "What is Jazz?".

WILLIAM PARKER , SOUND JOURNAL

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front cover of the boxset SUSTAIN
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Mats Gustafsson: tenor and baritone sax, flute, harmonica
Peter Janson: double bass
Kjell Nordeson: drums


Rock Out (3:08)
W2 (6:38)
Your Prayer (9:57)
Why I Don’t Go Back (9:30)
Cover Yourself (2:45)
Soul Brother Genius (5:29)
Deepfreeze Pretend (2:36)
Egypt Rock (5:35)
Dustdiver Kneeling (4:11 ) Play Albumblatt. Sustained (5:46)
Rock Out (3:23)

Compositions: 1 and 11 by Roscoe Mitchell (AEOC Pub, ASCAP); 2 by Peter Janson (Peter Janson/ STIM); 3 by Frank Wright (ASCAP); 4 by Ken Vandermark (Exploding Note, BMI); 5, 7, 9 and 10 by AALY Trio (Gustafsson, Janson, Nordeson/ STIM); 6 by Norman Howard (Syndicore, BMI); 8 by David Wertman (Mustevic Sound Inc, BMI).

Recorded on March 6th and 7th and mixed on March 8th 2024 by Gustav Lindelöw at Studio Ingrid, Stockholm, SE.
Mastered by Martin Siewert, Vienna, AT
Liner notes by Ken Vandermark
Photo by Micke Keysendal
Cover art work : Håkan Rehnberg, Untitled, 2017
Produced by Mats Gustafsson and Lars-Olof Gustavsson
Executive producer for Silkheart Records is Lars-Olof Gustavsson

 

Perhaps Eric Dolphy was wrong when he said, “When you hear music, after it’s over, it’s gone in the air.  You can never capture it again.”  Because the path Mats Gustafsson began in Umeå forty years ago - which includes five blazing years with the musicians on the album in your hands - is called music.  This path doesn’t go in a circle.  It’s a curve, ever upward, always asking you to learn.  The music on "Sustain" makes this evident, another basecamp on the ascent.  Mats, Kjell, and Peter are in different creative territory now than in 2000, but with the rapport still there, and still blazing. Ken Vandermark

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