EST’s Dan Berglund, seen in the video to the left of the conductor, is just one of a formidable aggregation of talent to come together as the Fire Orchestra on Enter, to be released by cult label Rune Grammofon next month. It’s a case of maverick unbridled latter-day countercultural abandon, with a whopping 28 people on board on the actual record recorded in January this year in Gothenberg, including singers Mariam Wallentin and Sofia Jernberg among the constellation of Swedish avant jazz and improv talent, pouring all over the horn, guitar, and keys-heavy skyful of music. Following straight on from 2013’s Exit this about-turn of an ‘entrance’ is a refreshing jolt to the senses soaked as it is in psychedelia, funk, noise, and free jazz.
Fire Orchestra will play Transcender this autumn.