Angles & Elle-Kari with Strings | The Death of Kalypso | CD

Growing from Angles 6 in 2007, to Angles 9 in 2012, and culminating in a 12-piece ensemble in 2022, the Swedish, groove-based free-jazz ensemble is now an octet, simply called Angles. They stir excitement with their new, incredibly ambitious and unique double-LP. The work which could be considered a contemporary jazz-opera mixes irresistible and urgent tunes with scintillating instrumental and improvisational sections. A genre-bending, over an hour long piece in twelve parts, its one of the most exhilarating albums to emerge from the thrilling Swedish scene for experimental music. The vocalist star is Elle-Kari Sander (from the Tiny and The Other Woman), and an eminent string quartet lift the opus to hitherto unseen heights. The music is composed by multi-reedist Martin K¸chen, strings and wind-arrangements by Alex Zethson, and production by Sander, Zethson and K¸chen. It was recorded at the legendary studio Atlantis in Stockholm, Sweden. An extensive drone piece from the recording w