Fire! Orchestra "Enter"

Country: Sweden
Sub Genre: Jazz-Rock, Avant Prog, Fusion
Label: Rune Grammofon
Release date: May 30, 2014
Tracklist: 
01. Enter! Part One (19:26)
02. Enter! Part Two (32:12)

Line-up: 
Mariam Wallentin – voice
Sofia Jernberg – voice
Simon Ohlsson - voice
Goran Kajfes - trumpet
Niklas Barnö – trumpet
Magnus Broo – trumpet
Emil Strandberg - trumpet
Mats Äleklint – trombone
Per Åke Holmlander – tuba
Anna Högberg – alto sax
Mats Gustafsson – tenor sax, conducting
Elin Larsson – tenor sax
Fredrik Ljungkvist – barytone sax, clarinet
Martin Küchen – barytone sax
Christer Bothén – bass clarinet , guimbri
Jonas Kullhammar – bass sax
Andreas Söderström – guitar , lap steel
Sören Runolf – guitar
David Stackenäs – guitar
Martin Hederos – fender rhodes, organ
Sten Sandell – piano, electronics och voice
Joachim Nordwall – electronics
Johan Berthling – electric bass
Joel Grip – bass
Dan Berglund - bass
Andreas Werliin – drums
Johan Holmegard – drums
Raymond Strid – drums

Description/Reviews: 

Fire! originated as the trio of Swedish improv masters Mats Gusfasson (sax), Johan Berthling (bass) and Andreas Werliin (drums). None of them are what you could call jazz purists; they all play in many different groups and contexts, including The Thing (Gustafsson), experimental folk-electronica outfit Tape (Berthling), and skewed pop unit Wildbirds And Peacedrums (Werliin). Around 2011 the idea sprang up to expand a massive orchestra around the core trio, featuring the cream of Scandinavian jazz, improvisation and avant rock players and vocalists. After playing rare shows a handful of times a year, culminating with a number of ecstatic Scandinavian shows this January, this incredible mass ensemble took one day off to record their first studio recording in Gothenburg. Following last year’s live debut ”Exit”, ”Enter” might surprise with its slow, treacly funk dynamics, running through a kaleidoscope of moods, rhythms, textures and dynamics. Muscular rock rhythms flesh out texts written by singer Mariam Wallentin, inspired by legendary free jazz saxophonist Joe McPhee, and sung in soured blues moans by the Orchestra’s three-headed vocal team of Wallentin, Ethiopian born Sofie Jernberg and Silverbullit´s Simon Ohlsson. Recalling the righteous big band jazz of the late 60s by figures such as Charlie Haden, Sun Ra, Mike Westbrook and Chris McGregor, there are also echoes of Matana Roberts’s recent jazz tapestries and the steamy psych-funk of Brightblack Morning Light. Part Two opens on a groove ripped from The Beatles’ psychedelic classic ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’. Using collective riffing at its finest, this is an epic suite that undergoes constant scene-shifts between relentlessly building rhythms, rising in emotional intensity as the furnace is stoked.

Media/Samples
Trailer
Part four

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