Mats Gustafsson has made a lot of records (S/D)

That's not even Neneh in that picture is it? The bloke on the right is Jack Bruce though.
Live clip of them doing MF Doom's Accordian sounds pretty great.
http://youtu.be/pbggxxf_7wQ

Further to my post of a few weeks back, the album with Mesele Asmamaw is terrific. Asmamaw does some wild stuff with his krak, particularly when he runs it through a wah.

Krar, not krak. Unintentional double entendre there.

This is not one of Mats Gustafson's records but it is the one video I could find from his Big Ears 2018 duo with Kieran Hebden/Four Tet. I enjoyed the hell out of it and when he wasn't playing MG made some of the most diabolical facial expressions I've seen a human make.

I just remembered to look it up and this video only has 114 views. Criminal!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4UClB3yMpM

I've almost certainly seen this guy play more times in the last 10 years than any other musician* - and I still don't own anything with him on it, in spite of the fact that he's great. (*apart from John Edwards, the bassist, I feel like I see him playing every time I go to a gig).

The newish Fire! record (like just about all the other Fire! records) is pretty awesome...an almost stoner free-jazz? Basically a thundering power trio with Gustafsson filling the guitar role on sax. Great stuff.

agree
that lineup is always enjoyable. the one i know best is with jim o'rourke
the song titles are something else https://www.discogs.com/Fire-With-Jim-O-Rourke-Unreleased/master/347570

that latest Fire! lp is pretty fab in it's own grindingly grim manner, a soundtrack to a shit summer with serious vit d deficiency issues!

this appears to be the most updated discography fwiw http://www.restructures.net/Gustafsson/Mats_disco_home.htm

and it's still not fully updated-- last updated July 2013

love his philosophy <3 good interview

To build your own language is an amazing journey to take. To build it up, to learn, to make the research. It never ends. ALL tools are good – as long as you make the knowledge yours. To copy is just a tool among others. We are free to use ANY elements from ANY source available and transform it. In some cases, you need to go really deep into certain music and languages. To really understand. All knowledge is good.
That is beautiful.

https://15questions.net/interview/fifteen-questions-interview-mats-gustafsson/page-1/

just been blasting out the 2016 Fire! album She Sleeps... it's pretty damn good as well! I find the Fire! Orchestra big band projects quite terrible and unlistenable tbh, but as a trio they burn very brightly.

Oh, I disagree. The first Fire! Orchestra album was great - reminded me of Burnt Sugar a lot.

maybe I need another listen, but last time I hated it.

The End - Svårmod Och Vemod Är Värdesinnen

his "death metal" project with M0ster and Sofia Jernberg is good stuff, definitely the closest I've got to liking death metal so far.