Jazz Podium

Sven Götz Quartet - Swedish Reflections

Jazzpodium / October 2009:

Alexander Schmitz

Swedish Sven Götz Quartet Reflections
Foxtones Music FM 0709 / Media Sales GmbH Heinzelmann

All sympathtisch somehow. Is in his bio: 'Began
playing guitar at age 12, several rock bands, "
followed by:,, birth of my son Jonas in the summer of 1982 "
The press release for Sven Götz Quartet tells the story of the two
Swedish musicians, but hardly anything of him, Sven Götz.
The 'shoot Swedish-German parents, sees itself as
Wanderer between worlds that loves northern lakes, tranquility
and loneliness, and has a compositional
Sensorium, which is almost all that he (not only) for his quartet
writes, only partly as a jazz and at least rubrizierbar
just as much of contemporary chamber music more European
Provenance is required.

Who grieves, this mix could only drum-
Cause depression is mistaken. These four could effortlessly
joint concerts with the humanities brother Quadro Lichen
Nuevo pass, so no trace of intellectual coolness or
Distance, none of Mannerist melancholia, but everything
the music of the warmth and gentleness, moderate modernity,
avoiding extremes of redundant edges and
Edges, but no aggression, no power play.

Thank God rarely approach each Sven, Ekkehard Rössle, sax,
Mattias Grönroos, b, and Tommy Holmgren, drums, a little
to elegant, too anemic to Konturenlosigkeit to a
Perfectionism seems to owe, it's all the musicians play-
tables must be subordinated.

But then it swings back significantly from all the joints,
lmorovisation so many recalls of the two soloists in the
Worlds of Jarrett and Jim Hall; in, Polkagrisar "for example, it is
prestissimo to virtuoso, relatively aggressively, otherwise
Controls ruled the awareness, the discipline with which we are idol-
Newcomers might be confused but only the sensitivity,
this Kammerlazzvon A to Z shapes.

Sven plays concert-times, sometimes amplified guitar, bass and
Drums get plenty of opportunity to develop their skills
to prove. Dominating gezugelte emotions
The foot-tapping under the table unnoticed, the small asceticism,
which do not starve, but can only decrease.

Anyone expecting pretty subdued dinner music can, at home
. remain Who's like a little puzzling is the right place.
Here's are cool Jazzfür the salon, not for the smoke-filled
Counter.

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