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Gul 3
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”For Gul 3 improvised music has always been connected to conceptual ideas, written music and graphic notation; our influences from classical music, jazz, noise and Fluxus orientated minimalism are brewed down to ONE musical unity”, as the trio themselves proclaims. Gul 3 is the shit. Or ”As if Ornette Coleman met Brian Eno in the late 70s”, as Christian Falk, one of their first record producers, stated after seeing their performance at the festival Sounds 99 in Stockholm. Other fans who experienced the early live sessions and Gul 3's debut "Soul", includes such luminaries as Mats Gustafsson, and his friends in Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore and Jim O´Rourke, who told us that they remained speechless. Why? Gul 3 is *the shit*! In the liner notes for their debut ”Soul”, John Corbett the Chicago musical oracle, wrote lyrically about the band’s almost macabre sense of interplay, and how their slow motion playing style cannot be defined through references to other astists work or aesthetics. Gul 3 is something else. Sure, Johan Arrias saxophone playing can be associated to Julius Hemphill and Lee Konitz, but it has a twist of it’s own, it´s a satellite per se. The same can be said about Leo Svenssons ”doublebass–like” cello playing and Henrik Olssons conciously unforced percussion style. Gul 3 now returns with their fourth album ” Singlar 2005”. After two idiosyncratic albums recorded 2001 and 2004, which unfortunately passed quite unnoticed, they have, together with Headspins in-
