https://vilhelmbromander.com Vilhelm Bromander Sun, 04 Jun 2023 08:24:36 +0000 https://vilhelmbromander.com en https://vilhelmbromander.com/Home Fri, 02 Jun 2023 14:28:50 +0000 Vilhelm Bromander https://vilhelmbromander.com/Home Vilhelm Bromander &amp; Fredrik Rasten - Astral TwinsRelased May 29th via Fönstret Vilhelm Bromander Unfolding Orchestra - Jorden vi ärvde.&nbsp; https://vilhelmbromander.com/About-Text Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:19:22 +0000 Vilhelm Bromander https://vilhelmbromander.com/About-Text Vilhelm Bromander (1988) is a Swedish bass player and composer deeply entwined in the Stockholm experimental and free jazz scene. He can be heard in groups such as Svenska Folkjazzkvartetten, Christer Bothén 3,in duo with Fredrik Rasten and with Elin Forkelid plays for Trane among others. Vilhelm has also worked a lot with solo double bass - where he directs his focus to acoustic details such as beating, common partials and difference tones – to hear what happens with our perception when we allow ourselves to be immersed in sound for a longer stretch of time. In January -22 he also debuted as a soprano saxophone player with his new chamber work, Aurora, that was released by warm winters ltd. As an improviser he has played with musicians like Axel Dörner, Tisha Mukarji, Michael Thieke, Sten Sandell, Phil Minton, Mazen Kerbaj, Maria W. Horn, Christer Bothén, Katt Hernandez, Lisa Ullén, Henrik Olsson to name a few. He is also an active session musician and has played with Daniel Johnston, Sara Parkman, Saigon, Musette, Joe Davolaz, Rotem Geffen, Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation, The Tiny &amp; Music Is The Weapon. ︎︎︎ https://vilhelmbromander.com/About-Image Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:20:49 +0000 Vilhelm Bromander https://vilhelmbromander.com/About-Image https://vilhelmbromander.com/Vilhelm-Bromander-Unfolding-Orchestra Sun, 04 Jun 2023 08:24:36 +0000 Vilhelm Bromander https://vilhelmbromander.com/Vilhelm-Bromander-Unfolding-Orchestra Vilhelm Bromander Unfolding Orchestra 'In this forever unfolding moment' is the debut release by a new, 13-piece ensemble assembled by Swedish bass player and composer Vilhelm Bromander, released september 29th 2023 on the Swedish label Thanasosis. It’s a sparkling Spiritual Jazz album, featuring three extended, stellar compositions by Bromander, performed by some of the most urgent voices from the Swedish scene of jazz- and improvised music, together with the otherworldly voice of dhrupad singer Marianne Svašek. In the music Bromanders love of jazz and northindian raga melts together and in the meeting is born a caringly wild-grown music with a heartfelt and powerful expression. Bromander has twelve phenomenal musicians to help him, and it is in the meeting of their voices and dedication that the music has become what it is – collective, full of hope, care and resistance. Vilhelm Bromander, double bassKatt Hernandez, violinMartin Küchen, alto and sopranino saxophoneElin Forkelid, tenor saxophoneAlberto Pinton, baritone saxophoneChrister Bothén, bass clarinetEmil Strandberg, trumpetMats Äleklint, tromboneAlex Zethson, pianoMattias Ståhl, vibraphoneDennis Egberth, drumsAnton Jonsson, drumsMarianne Svašek, vocals &amp; tanpura Downbeat Magazine 5/5. Masterpiece of 2023. "Swedish bassist Vilhelm Bromander has been an increasingly important and versatile part of Stockholm’s creative music scene for years, and his various interests and abilities coalesce with staggering power on In This Forever Unfolding Moment(..) Ignore these sounds at your own peril” Gyllene Skivan bästa jazzalbum 2023 Orkesterjournalen Jazz of the year 2023 Manifestgalan ”Ett modigt projekt med flera av Sveriges mest spännande musiker. Äventyrligt och njutbart på samma gång. Utforskande med en klar riktning åt alla håll. Ett helt nytt universum vecklar ut sig.” The WIRE. "Listeners who´ve followed Swedish double bassist Vilhelm Bromander's recent works have doubtless cottoned onto the persistent focus of his music, regardless of its broader context. If it always makes an impression of rigorous lushness, the arc of drone he peals out from his double bass sometimes feels rugged and rough-housing, but elsewhere, it effortlessly carries the music's melodic weight” Bandcamp, best jazz october -23 "The charge on this large ensemble recording from Vilhelm Bromander keeps building endlessly, as if nurturing a flame into a bonfire. The spectrum that’s traversed, from nuanced drone to explosion of chaos, is nothing less than thrilling, and the interludes of serenity are stunning just by way of comparison—sublime on their own merits”. &amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="https://vilhelmbromander.bandcamp.com/album/in-this-forever-unfolding-moment"&amp;amp;amp;gt;In this forever unfolding moment by Vilhelm Bromander&amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;gt; https://vilhelmbromander.com/Aurora Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:58:15 +0000 Vilhelm Bromander https://vilhelmbromander.com/Aurora Aurora The word "aurora" is derived from the name of the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora, who travelled from east to west announcing the coming of the sun. Vilhelm Bromander’s new suite titled aurora similarly signals the arrival of a new chapter in the Swedish bass player, composer and improviser’s creative endeavours. Aurora is an album of ten pieces written for an extended woodwind ensemble. The music has a gentle, fragile and somewhat naive sound – perhaps a result of half the ensemble exploring new instruments (Bromander himself plays soprano saxophone). The instrumental identities are blurred; reeds, bowed strings and organ form together a warm, inviting, collective sounding body. The compositions themselves feel like glimpses of light, air and mystery. They are open-ended, floating, yet each composition still explores a specific theme, mood, or feeling – like trying to describe the scent of a flower, or the feeling of the wind gently caressing your neck. “I embraced trying to compose music as romantic and beautiful as I was able to” says Bromander” but contrasting this by playing it strictly, consciously not syncing breaths and phrasing. That tension, between the strict playing and the romantic compositions is for me a key to this music: like drone music cut up into smaller sections and pieces that when combined create melody.” Vilhelm Bromander – soprano saxophone, pump organ and percussionJohan Graden – clarinet, piano and pump organMauritz Agnas – clarinet and double bassEmma Augustsson – celloPelle Westlin – soprano saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinetAnton Svanberg – tuba Released January 14, 2022 by Warm Winters Ltd. as WW016 "aurora is a singularly remarkable work of delicate woodwind and brass compositions." – A Closer Listen "Contemplation leads to a surprising display of resilience and Bromander’s pensive compositions are a map through the outside chaos." – Foxy Digitalis "Its harmonies push and pull for separate and synchronous emotivities, at once low and hopeful, elegiac jubilations, a cordial malaise." – harmonic series "At its heart lies an attempt to interpret romantic music in a strict way. This results in a tension that gives the bittersweet music an eerie undertone." – field notes "a luminous journey inside autumnal landscapes, lulled by the swaying of branches with scintillating melodic foliage." – SilenceAndSound "an extremely beautiful suite" – Salt-Peanuts https://vilhelmbromander.com/Solo Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:40:23 +0000 Vilhelm Bromander https://vilhelmbromander.com/Solo Focusing on small musical details such as intonation, beating, subharmonics and multiphonics Vilhelm curiously investigates his bass. He has done several solo concerts and on September 22nd 2016 the solo record oh lord give me strange was released on the Portugese label&nbsp;Creative Sources. On the record there are two tracks, each one presenting a sound that on the surface seems static, but reveals a very liveful and mysterious music from within the sound, rich in form and variation. https://vilhelmbromander.com/Vilhelm-Bromander-Fredrik-Rasten Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:55:23 +0000 Vilhelm Bromander https://vilhelmbromander.com/Vilhelm-Bromander-Fredrik-Rasten Vilhelm Bromander &amp; Fredrik Rasten Vilhelm Bromander &amp; Fredrik Rasten materialize resonant sound with double bass, guitar and subtle vocal shadings. The music puts just intonation on display and explores its potential in improvised as well as composed music. The duo has released two albums On...for some reason that escapes us (2019) and Astral Twins (2026). The instrumental and vocal sounds entwine into a collective body of harmonics, interference and difference tones; a complex wherefrom a tangible sonic space arises and listening becomes tactile. The music echoes an imagined old music, inhabiting both melodic and textural entities in continual motion. <img width="427" height="285" width_o="427" height_o="285" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95b1efb44463749243c3f9a486a1ad189893f94f7841224d96e2fd7470776d1e/vilhelmbromanderfredrikrasten.jpg" data-mid="180828651" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/427/i/95b1efb44463749243c3f9a486a1ad189893f94f7841224d96e2fd7470776d1e/vilhelmbromanderfredrikrasten.jpg" /> https://vilhelmbromander.com/Kommun Fri, 02 Jun 2023 19:04:05 +0000 Vilhelm Bromander https://vilhelmbromander.com/Kommun Kommun Ephemeralds is the first record by Finn Loxbo’s new ensemble and marks a distinct development in the guitarist’s compositional practice. Performing together with pianist Lisa Ullén, kontrabassist Vilhelm Bromander and percussionist Ryan Packard, Loxbo has set up a situation of intense focus, dissolving individual identities into a collective sound world of resolute clarity. Each musician manipulates a collection of tightly stipulated pitch material whilst bringing the shared timbral qualities of each instrument into close proximity. Uniquely, this dissolution of identity happens without relying on a blur of sustained tones. The music remains hard. A chiselled, gleaming beauty, but one hung in a precarious assemblage of rhythmic co-dependence. With Ephemeralds, the act of listening both invokes and displaces our memories, phrases and combinations slip away at the very point they coalesce.Kommun Finn Loxbo - Acoustic Guitar Lisa Ullén - Grand PianoVilhelm Bromander - BassRyan Packard - Percussion <img width="1049" height="1280" width_o="1049" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf7d5f393f3bb8b9e78bf84f4119430118dbb9f360f5db5500a1d57f1bc2417c/fatolj-2-farg.jpeg" data-mid="180823175" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf7d5f393f3bb8b9e78bf84f4119430118dbb9f360f5db5500a1d57f1bc2417c/fatolj-2-farg.jpeg" /> foto: Isabell Gustafsson-Ny https://vilhelmbromander.com/CBVB Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:52:44 +0000 Vilhelm Bromander https://vilhelmbromander.com/CBVB CBVB After having played together in many different contexts, Christer Bothén and Vilhelm Bromander formed the duo CBVB in 2014 in order to enter a closer artistic collaboration. Rhe forming of this duo has meant a possibility to realize a highly consistent study of large instruments’ sounding possibilities. The result of this work is now presented in the suite “DEEP”, consisting of five joint compositions and one structured improvisation. CBVB invites you to deep listening in a very rich, yet simultaneously very reduced musical world of micro movements, interferences, trembling, silences, and unpredictable events, all of it performed with artistic integrity and poetic logic. Christer Bothén / contrabass clarinet &amp; bass clarinet Vilhelm Bromander / double bass <img width="362" height="211" width_o="362" height_o="211" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b646a813fe2e28ef5313f4d8f498f114fd6c5863b71c4caca22446ab889f72e/cbvb-crop-u570.jpg" data-mid="180828601" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/362/i/3b646a813fe2e28ef5313f4d8f498f114fd6c5863b71c4caca22446ab889f72e/cbvb-crop-u570.jpg" /> https://vilhelmbromander.com/The-Mute Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:47:02 +0000 Vilhelm Bromander https://vilhelmbromander.com/The-Mute The Mute The Mutes music is like a mute trying to speak or a muted instrument. Sound spreads like a deceptive clear water, only bubbles emerges to the surface which speaks of an apparent depth. The foundation of the bass, the heaviness of the percussion and the trumpets muffled calls, close and urgent. It’s beautiful, ugly and full of disagreements. axel dörner / trumpet henrik olsson / percussion &amp; objects vilhelm bromander / double bass <img width="361" height="213" width_o="361" height_o="213" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9a55d656b8580fc62248e55460f1f793c5bc7a75782c572f34691e07cfc6e19/the-mute-trondheim.jpg" data-mid="180826322" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/361/i/b9a55d656b8580fc62248e55460f1f793c5bc7a75782c572f34691e07cfc6e19/the-mute-trondheim.jpg" />