Cosmic Ear - TRACES (2025)

Cosmic Ear
TRACES
2025 - We Jazz Records: WJCD76 / WJLP76
http://www.wejazz.fi/
https://wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traces_(Album)
https://matsgustafsson.bandcamp.com/album/traces

* Goran Kajfeš : trumpet, pocket trumpet,
synthesizer, electronics, percussion
* Mats Gustafsson : tenor saxophone, flute,
slide flute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_whistle,
Ab clarinet, live electronics, organ, harmonica
* Christer Bothén : donso n’goni, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, piano
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngoni_(instrument)
* Kansan Zetterberg: bass, donso n’goni (aka Torbjörn Zetterberg)
* Juan Romero : congas, berimbau, percussion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berimbau
+ tracks 2, 6 (?)
* Marianne N’Lemwo : karignan

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/goran-kajfe%C5%A1-mn0002738410
https://www.matsgus.com/
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/christer-both%C3%A9n-mn0003066404
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/torbj%C3%B6rn-zetterberg-mn0000160739
https://www.juanromero.org/
https://www.discogs.com/artist/994954-Marianne-NLemvo

Recorded by Gustav Lindelöw at Ingrid Studios, Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden.

Reviews
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By Eyal Hareuveni
https://www.freejazzblog.org/2025/05/cosmic-ear-traces-we-jazz-2025.html

By Mike Gates
https://ukvibe.org/album_reviews/cosmic-ear/

By Stephen Graham
https://marlbank.net/2025/05/23/cosmic-ear-traces-wejazz/

Jukka Piiroinen (fi)
https://www.valonkuvia.fi/blogi/cosmic-ear-traces/

Pasi Virtanen (fi)
https://jazzpossu.fi/2025/07/08/vinyyliviisikko-cosmic-ear-timo-lassy-joe-henderson-muriel-grossmann-kannaste4/

Peter Bornemar (se)
https://www.lira.se/skivrecension/traces-4/

Mats Lundgren (se)
https://matslundgren.se/lyhord-meditativ-narvaro-med-cosmic-ear/

Jan Granlie (no)
https://salt-peanuts.eu/record/cosmic-ear/

Da Pino Saulo (it)
https://www.thenewnoise.it/due-dischi-di-christer-bothen/

Par Franpi Barriaux (fr)
https://www.citizenjazz.com/Cosmic-Ear.html