Sven-Åke Johansson

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After the performance of "City of 1000 Fires" in Mannheim (2014)

Sven-Åke Johansson (* 1943 in Mariestad ) is a Swedish composer, musician, author and visual artist.

Live and act

Johansson began as a drummer in Bosse Skoglund's dance band , played in groups around Bobo Stenson in 1965 and with Ran Blake in Spain and France . He was then involved in the first record of the Globe Unity Orchestra and in 1967 he became a member of the trio of Peter Brötzmann and Peter Kowald , with whom he also played on the album Machine Gun . He has lived in Berlin since 1968 and was involved with Brötzmann, Kowald, Manfred Schoof and Alexander von Schlippenbach and his Modern Northern European Village Music in the development of the European version of free jazz and free improvisational music . He then took up his first solo record Schlingerland and formed the EMT trio with Alfred Harth and Nicole Van den Plas . Even back then, he was using unusual materials (e.g. foam, telephone books, etc. for percussive effects). Then he concentrated on the still existing duo with Alex Schlippenbach, in which he played the accordion and recited spontaneous poems. At the world premiere of his Paul Lincke Music for Small Ensemble (1977) Conrad Bauer and Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky performed for the first time in West Berlin. With the latter, Hans Reichel and Rüdiger Carl , he formed the Bergisch-Brandenburg Quartet. In his Northern European melody and improvisation orchestra worked u. a. Carl Reichel, Wolfgang Fuchs , Radu Malfatti , Maarten Altena and Norbert Eisbrenner. In his Ol 'Man Rebop Ensemble play a. a. Ulrich Gumpert and Axel Dörner . 2001 the duo album Proclamation I was created on HatHut with pianist Per Henrik Wallin . Since 2010 he has performed the live program Eisler while sitting in a duo with Oliver Augst ; the joint program In St. Wendel am Schloßplatz was broadcast on Deutschlandfunk.

Sven-Åke Johansson

Johansson cannot be reduced to his almost 40 records and CDs, but has also published several books with poems and other texts and has made an effective appearance as a painter (with numerous exhibitions). He has also initiated music productions such as “The Rake and the Spade” or “About the cause and effect of differences of opinion in the Tower of Babel” (together with Alexander von Schlippenbach). In 1996 he performed a concert for twelve tractors in Leipzig, which was performed again in 2013 at the Klangspuren in Tyrolean Schwaz . He also premiered his play “The Rake and the Spade” in Berlin with a prominent group.

Discography (selection)

Radio plays

  • In St. Wendel am Schloßplatz .. (Augst / Johansson), DLF Culture , 2017
  • Alle Toten 1914 (Augst / Birke), DLF Kultur , rbb , Volksbühne Berlin , hr 2014 - participation as speaker, singer, musician
  • City of a thousand fires (Augst / Birke ), hr / swr 2012 - participation as speaker, singer, musician
  • Kippenberger Hören (Augst / Carl), RBB / DLR 2008 - Participation as speaker, singer, musician

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Absurd poems and screw songs: In St. Wendel on Schlossplatz ... Deutschlandfunk Kultur, November 3, 2017, accessed on July 31, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Don't roar so romantically! in FAZ of October 2, 2013, page 35
personal data
SURNAME Johansson, Sven-Åke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish musician, composer, author and artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Mariestad , Sweden