In The Mouth A Hand

mats gustafsson: tenor sax, live electronics, fender rhodes, organ johan berthling: electric bass andreas werliin: drums. jim orourke: guitar. a collaboration, this time with the extraordinary and prolific guitarist oren ambarchi. with their heavy, hypnotic, psychedelic rocknjazz explorations they have carved out a different sound than any of the groups they are normally associated with. sax player, improviser, composer and fervent record collector mats gustafsson is possibly most know from powerjazztrio the thing, he has also played more than 1500 concerts and participated on around 150 records with musicians like peter brtzmann, sonic youth, merzbow, barry guy, otomo yoshihide, ken vandermark, hamid drake, derek bailey, evan parker, joe mcphee and a host of others simply too many to mention here. johan berthling has worked freelance with jazz, improvised music, pop, folk and more. he is a founder member of the great trio tape and founded hpna, one of our favourite record labels. among his current other groups are animes with david stackens and raymond strid and sten sandell trio with pianist sten sandell and drummer paal nilssen-love. johan is also working as a record producer. andreas werliin, drummer extraordinaire in wildbirds & peacedrums, is fire!s youngest member and one of the most interesting and acclaimed new percussionists in the creative music scene of scandinavia. he has developed an exceptionally personal way of playing and is known for his strength and creativity.