That Summer with music by Kajfes & Osterberg
A Hollywood Reporter review of the documentary That Summer directed by Göran Hugo Olsson with some music contribution by Kajfes & Osterberg. World premiered on Telluride Film Festival.
News
News
Nomination best musician in Swedish jazz awards!
I am nominated for best musician in “Jazzkatten“, Swedish jazz awards. Very happy about that!!!
The Reason Why Vol. 3 – UK release Nov 3rd
Happy to announce that The Reason Why Vol. 3 will have a UK release on the 3rd of November. Distribution by Proper Music Group.
Goran on Bandcamp
Goran Kajfes is now on Bandcamp and you can download The Reason Why Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 in high-res formats like FLAC, WAV, AIFF and more. Also pretty soon there will be some more goodies there.
Fantastic reviews for TRWV3 in Sweden.
“One of the creative peaks in Swedish music of this decade.”
Dagens Industri 4/5
“Bursting boundaries between nations, musical genres and eras”
Gaffa 5/6
”World fusion you can´t do anything else than worship”
Sonic Magazine 8/10
“A declaration of love to music at large”
Dagens Nyheter 4/5
Release and concert in Stockholm 20th of August.
Don´t miss the first concert with Subtropic Arkestra playing the new material from The Reason Why Vol. 3 in Vitabergsparken on Sunday, 20th of Aug. Free entrance! And also a 40 years celebration for Fasching, the great jazz club in Stockholm.
New Subtropic Arkestra album!
So it´s finally time for the new Subtropic Arkestra album (last one in the trilogy) The Reason Why Vol. 3. Scandinavian release Sept 1.
Another new release – La La Lars
Happy to be part of the self-titled album La La Lars that my label Headspin Recordings just released. You can buy the vinyl on the Headspin Recordings webshop.
Two new releases: Angles 9 and Pan-Scan Ensemble
Celebrating the new year being a part of these two exciting upcoming releases:
Angles 9 – Disappeared behind the sun
Pan-Scan Ensemble – Air and Light and Time and Space
Listen and Pre-order here
New music for The Royal Dramatic Theatre
Goran has composed and recorded music for the play “Ivanov” (Tjechov) directed by Alexander Mork-Eidem. Premiere Oct 26th at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. Musicians (except Goran) are Jonas Kullhammar (saxophone and flute), Alexander Zethson (keyboards) and Johan Holmegard (drums).
The Thing with Goran Kajfes, Anna Högberg and Joe Mcphee
Here is a live clip from the 25 years birthday-celebration of Copenhagen Jazzhouse with The Thing.
Goran is artist in residence at Fasching, Stockholm this spring.
Goran is artist in residence at Fasching (Stockholm) this spring. He has invited some bands and he is also performing himself with Subtropic Arkestra and his new quartet Tropiques.
Here are the dates:
Tuesday 5 april – Goran Kajfeš Tropiques
Support DJ: Gustaf Wolrath (runtrunt)
Saturday 23 april – Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit
Support DJ: Daniel Savio
Tuesday 17 maj – Jari Haapalainen Trio
Support DJ: Mariam Wallentin
Friday 27 maj – Konono no. 1
Support DJ: Jenny Wilson
Saturday 4 juni – Goran Kajfeš Subtropic Arkestra
Support DJ: Subtropic Arkestra Bruce Leenus
The Reason Why on the UNCUT best of 2015 list.
The Reason Why Vol. 2 on the UNCUT (John Mulvey) best albums of 2015 list.
http://www.uncut.co.uk/uncut-editors-diary/my-favourite-albums-of-2015-71856
Shows in France
Just wanted to inform that we are going to do the upcoming Subtropic Arkestra concerts at Jazzycolors Festival in Paris, Nov 18th and Festival Eclats d´Email Jazz in Limoges, Nov 19th. Music is the healing force of the universe!
