new reviews oct 2013

October 5th, 2013

some recent reviews of our new album : without notice

http://www.svd.se/kultur/musik/without-noticing_8550096.svd

http://www.freejazzblog.org/2013/09/fire-without-noticing-rune-grammofon.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FvEnU+%28Free+Jazz%29

and a recent live review:

http://thequietus.com/articles/13501-fire-cafe-oto-live-review

september tour 2013!!!

September 16th, 2013

in connection to the release of the new album:
without noticing

http://runegrammofon.com/artists/fire_/rcd-2146-fire-without-noticing-cd/

an EUROPEAN TOUR!!!!!!
FIRE! w otomo yoshihide and mariam wallentin
19 sep       cafe oto, london, UK
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/

Otomo Yoshihide & guests
20 sep    cafe oto, london, UK
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/

FIRE!
21 sep    pAN festival        caen, france
http://www.cjbn.fr/
22 sep    incubate festival    tilburg, holland
http://incubate.org/2013/
24 sep    cafe V lese        prague, tjech rep
http://cafevlese.cz/
25 sep    mozskva cafe    oradea, rumania
http://www.muzicadevest.ro/
28 sep    narodni dom        maribor, slovenia
http://www.muzicadevest.ro/
29 sep    tarcento jazz festival      tarcento, italy
http://italia.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=4974

FIRE! Ochestra in Luleå Sweden

June 4th, 2013

FIRE! Orchestra ( half sized version ) melting Luleå down during the New Directions Festival, June 1st 2013.

More soon at Nickelsdorf Konfrontationen — july 18 -21 st 2013.
http://www.konfrontationen.at/ko13/

Filmed by Mats Äleklint

FIRE! in Paris

March 18th, 2013

FIRE! Orchestra in Malmö!

January 17th, 2013

This is the extra piece that’s not on the record!

Enjoy!

FIRE! Orchestra tour!

November 26th, 2012

In January FIRE!  Orchestra will make a short tour in Sweden.

Check out the live dates!

Press images

June 22nd, 2011

Click the images to download a high resolution version

FIRE! with Jim O’Rourke

FIRE! with Jim O’Rourke

Jim O’Rourke Guests On Next Fire! Release

May 18th, 2011

Image: fire! joined by mats gustafsson

Mats Gustafsson’s Swedish three piece Fire! are teaming up with Jim O’Rourke for their second album. O’Rourke adds synth and electric guitar to the current trio: Mats Gustaffson on sax and Fender Rhodes, Johan Berthling on electric bass, and Andreas Werlin (one half of Wildbirds & Peacedrums) on drums.

The four track album, Unreleased, will be released on 4 July through Rune Grammofon. A red vinyl edition will be pressed in an edition of 100, available only on the Rune Grammofon site. Fire! play Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival with Oren Ambarchi in October.

FIRE! in Brazil

April 20th, 2011

FIRE! in brasil in may!!!!!!

13th may – sao paolo

15th may – porto allegre

bring all yr vinyls of rare and great tropicaliana and bossa  to the concerts and we will trade….

one piece of vinyl per day keeps all the doctors away!!!! always……

Soundofmusic.nu

February 23rd, 2011

(Google translated)
“Fire! – This simple but evocative name for an underground power trio with Mats Gustafsson, Johan Berthling and the drumming half of Wildbirds & Peace Drums, Andrew Werliin, sounds already on the paper like a dream situation for the Swedish, currently wonderfully fluent, jazz and improvisation scene. You liked me five minutes ago (the enigmatic title comes from the American poet Robert Creely) is the trio’s debut, where we, in anticipation of the album with solo soprano, may be content to Gustafsson including strumming away on a Fender Rhodes piano!

Sometimes you get a bit puzzled over the Swedish music press. This is a band that should get much more attention than many other subtle oddities that fill the newspapers’ cultural coverage, especially since this is not any “serious” music. Hardly a word is written. Possibly because they’re at a Norwegian company, or that music includes a saxophone, a stinging fact that seems to be impossible even for a download strong indie audience.

Anyway. This is a band I of the above reason to celebrate blindly. But it is not easy. In short: music is brilliant, at times on the verge of goose bumps warning. It is a slow-but-safe development of heavy rhythm that same slow-but-surely enter the polyphonic overtures, sometimes as if Black Sabbath and Neu had shared rehearsal space in sober time. But in view of the musicians involved so I set high standards. It is this ‘slow-and-safe’ as the more omlyssningar forming a bitter. The project is too fast hopkommet, just not assented. It is music that is improvised, sure, but the form is conceived from the beginning. How does it feel in each case. It is a bit like that term “record collector music”, ie. playing a music that sounds like one’s own record collection: a little free jazz, some Sabbath, a little kraut … Sometimes, as if Cream was produced by Conny Plank … Nico shows up, humming and bikes for a while and headed out … (why can not she stay?)

I do not want to delude anyone that this album is one flounders, far from it. Again, it is really good. But still annoying when you hear that during all this, there is great potential that seems to be restrained.”

Johan Redin
Soundofmusic.nu