Vibes från Gröndal
Det här är Mattias Ståhl.
Han spelar vibrafon.
Mattias är född 1971 i Oskarshamn och bor i Stockholm. Gick ut Musikhögskolan i Stockholm 1999 och har sen dess förgyllt en och annan scen runt om i Sverige och på en del andra platser. Släppt två egna album som fått mycket uppmärksamhet både på hemmaplan och internationellt med sin tidigare kvartett Ståhls blå. För denna grupp komponerade han även all musik. Han spelar som sideman med i ett flertal spännande grupper som till exempel Martin Küchens Angles, prisbelönade orkestern Nils Berg 5 (Jazz i Sverige 2007), Alberto Pinton Quintet, Yttling Jazz (med monster producer Björn Yttling), Fredrik Nordström Quintet (Jazz i Sverige 2002) och norska supergruppen Klaus Holm Kollektif. Han har varit husvibrafonist hos swingtronica-killarna i Koop världen runt sedan 2001. Han syns också i grupper som Jet Set Sweden och Sven Berggrens Alea. Han fick Sveriges Radio P2:s pris jazzkatten som årets nykomling 2002 för CD:n "Ståhls blå". Eget projekt av senare datum är en färsk duo-CD med mästerimprovisatören Sten Sandell, "GRANN MUSIK" som kom ut i april 2008 på den portugisiska labeln Cleanfeed. Andra aktuella projekt är Ståhls trio - spelar hela hösten på Hornstull Strand! - med Christopher Cantillo på trummor och Joe Williamson på bas. Samt trion Ståhl/Thorman/Ljungkvist på vibrafon/kontrabas/klarinett som spelar jazz med dragning åt kammarmusik. Lyssna nedan!
Media tycker till:
Piano and vibraphone risk mutual cancellation. Each on its own can overwhelm musical content with volume of sound, so it takes discipline for them to be heard in each others presence. Swedes Sten Sandell and Mattias Stahl are up to that task. Each modulates his approach to ensure the music's balance(...) ...their contributions never blur. ***
Bill Meyer, Downbeat Magazine (US)
...själv river han undan alla fördomar om vibrafonen som ett mesigt plinke-plonk-instrument; det här är intelligent och sexig friformjazz som river i högtalarmembranen. Med nervig, knappt tyglad energi, massor av överraskningar och, faktiskt, melodier som biter sig fast.
Lennart Persson, Expressen
Vibrafonisten Mattias Ståhl har en djävulsk känsla för sitt instrument…intensitet, kraft och dess motpoler lugn och luft.
Fredrik Eriksson, Groove
...noe av det friskeste og mest innovative som finnes i det enorme tilfanget av ung jazz fra Skandinavia.
Tor Hammerø, PULS
... ger skickligt varandra motstånd och stöd. Ibland luftigt och mjukt, ibland kantigt och hårt. (...) Överhuvudtaget finns ett tilltalande samspel mellan de båda, samtidigt som de var för sig ges utrymme att ta ut svängarna. Lyhördhet är ett signum (...)
Magnus Olsson, Sound of Music
Vackert och utmanande i förening.
Måns Wallgren, Dagens Nyheter
...cd:n låter lite som om Archie Shepp spelade vibrafon.
Groove
...det lät som när teven pajat.
Eskilstuna-kuriren
Loney Dear + Jönköpings Sinfonietta
13-14 febr
Bohuslän big band/Bengt-Arne Wallin 11-15 april
This is Mattias Ståhl.
He plays the vibraphone.
Mattias is born 1971 in Oskarshamn, Sweden and lives in Stockholm. Examined from Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 1999 and have since performed at stages around Sweden and elsewhere, focusing on jazz and improvised music. Released two album of his own with his former quartet Ståhls blå ("Ståhls blå" 2001 and "Schlachtplatte" 2004), which achieved great attention from reviewers all over the world. He also composed all the music for this group. As a sideman he plays with a lot of exciting groups, like the rewarded Nils Berg 5 (Jazz in Sweden Award 2007), Alberto Pinton Quintet, Yttling Jazz (with Bjorn Yttling from "Peter, Bjorn and John"), Fredrik Nordström Quintet (Jazz in Sweden Award 2002), norwegian supergroup Klaus Holm Kollektif and Martin Küchens Angles. He has been the vibist of the swingtronica-duo Koop since 2001, touring all over the world. He also plays with groups as Jet Set Sweden och Sven Berggrens Alea. He recieved the Swedish Radio Award 2002 as newcomer of the year for his album "Ståhls blå". A project more up to date is a duo with master improviser Sten Sandell, they have released an album in 2008 - "GRANN MUSIK" on the portugese label Cleanfeed. Other projects are Ståhls trio, playing standards inspired by the classic trios of Sonny Rollins and Lee Konitz, and the trio Ståhl/Thorman/Ljungkvist, playing in a more chambermusic setting; vibes, bass and clarinet.
Media says:
...Has the vibraphone ever been treated this aggressively before? For those who might find vibes too mellow in nature, Stahl provokes wonderment as he hits brutally, retaining some reverberant decay but keeping a brittle front-edge to his notes. (...) This is breathtaking music: force, detail, control and abandon are all ramming against each other with an exactly equal strength.
Martin Longley, Jazz Review (UK)
Swedish vibraphonist Mattias Stahl plays with all the mystery and urgency of early Bobby Hutcherson, and writes brisk, hairpin-turn compositions that owe much to Ornette Coleman. This was perhaps my favorite concert of the festival... Nate Dorward, Cadence (US)
...making utterly fresh, attractive, intelligent and wryly playful music.
Rob Adams, The Herald (UK)
Atmosphere, humor, drama: swedish jazz in excellent shape. **** -- four stars Cuadernos de Jazz (SPAIN)
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Mattias Ståhl is the wunderkind of the vibes, and on
the debut offering from his band, Ståhls blå, he shows
that he is a strong group leader(…)
**** --four stars »
Downbeat Magazine (US) - « this album has had me off my feet every time I've played it: forty minutes of intelligence, energy, spirit, and extraordinary musicality - it's like reconstructing Ornette's 1959 group with all the advances of technique and knowledge of the last 40 years. » JazzReview (UK)
...they're an interesting brew of personalities: the patient, occasionally blustering Milder, the unpredictable Ståhl, and a rhytm section that can play flat out as easily as it does simple, limber swinging...this is a terrific band. ***(*) The Penguine Guide to Jazz on CD (UK)
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Their second album, pushing it a little further: "Schlachtplatte" (2004)
On MOSEROBIE!
...This is breathtaking music: force, detail, control and abandon are all ramming against each other with an exactly equal strength.
Martin Longley, Jazz Review (UK)
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Sten Sandell & Mattias Ståhl, GRANN MUSIK (neighbour music) (2008) On Cleanfeed Records.
Master Swedish improvisers, pianist Sten Sandell and vibraphonist Mattias Stahl, radiate gobs of colorific contrasts via these freeform-based duets. (...) they merge resonating improvisation with multidimensional fabrics of sound. (...) Few can pull it off and sustain interest at the level evidenced here.
Glenn Astarita, All about jazz
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