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Koop
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Oscar Simonsson |
tastiere |
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Ola Bothzen |
vibrafono |
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Martin Hoper
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contrabbasso |
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Magnus Zingmark
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electronics & percussioni |
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Mattias Stahl
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batteria |
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Yukimi Nagano
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voce |
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Koop
Koop, that means
“co-operation”, is the Swedish duo which has combined pure jazz music
sounds with electronics. Not electronic music with a touch of jazz,
but jazz sparingly laced with electronics.
Magnus Zingmark and Oscar Simonsson, both from Sweden’s main
university-town Uppsala, now residing in Stockholm, were the first two
jazzheads in their hometown to lose interest in the perpetual Hammond
organ-licking of Jimmy Smith. Instead they embarked together down the
more rewarding paths of hardbop and raw latin beats, avoiding fusion’s
tendency to dilute the original spirit of jazz.
Arriving at that point from, in Magnus’ case, hip hop’s Golden Age of
Public Enemy and Boogie Down Productions to the Detroit-techno
euphoria of Inner City and their acid house-cousins and, in Oscar’s
case, from Bird’s Parkers Mood and John Coltrane’s Alabama to playing
the piano in a succession of DIY-jazz combos, the two decided to join
forces in helping Swedish jazz regain that momentum it’s lacked ever
since the sixties when all creativity and forward thinking talent
escaped the genre. They strongly perceive jazz as rhythm and form
rather than the orthodox idea of jazz being merely improvisation.
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