#Lisa Ullen

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Lisa Ullén, Korea (based in Sweden)

http://lisaullen.com

[dustedmagazine]

Lisa Ullén / Elsa Bergman / Anna Lund — Space (Relative Pitch)

Space by Ullén/Bergman/Lund Trio

Some record labels come at you with a look, or a sound, or a scene to push; Relative Pitch brings a mission. The New York-based imprint, which has a release schedule packed enough to make Clean Feed and Astral Spirits nervous, reaches past its locale to point out artists that you might miss. 

Take this trio, for example. Swedish improvisers Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman and Anna Lund can’t exactly be called newcomers. Ullén has been playing piano in improvisational and theatrical settings since the 1990s, and making records since 2006. Bassist Bergman and drummer Lund have each been on the scene for several years, and all three of them can be heard together in Anna Högberg’s Attack! But to know all that, it would really help to be in Stockholm, or at least Scandinavia. Space is not only their first album as a trio, but a rare occasion for any of them to be on a record released in the USA.

Their sound is steeped in a half century of harmonically mindful but free-flowing jazz, reaching back to Paul Bley’s sides for E.S.P. The musicians don’t jockey for solo space. Each woman seems to be thinking about how to contribute to the group’s music, either by putting a supportive shoulder behind another’s efforts, or finding a contrasting accent that makes things more vivid. And while Ullén occasionally mutes a string, there’s otherwise not a lot of extended technique in the trio’s music. The pianist’s melodies seem to arise out of a layers of rhythm, either her own or her partners’. Lund’s cymbals are like steam, hot and propulsive, and Bergman’s fleet plucking manages to work at an angle to the piano’s linear flow, taking the long way around, and yet manages to head it off at the pass. Propulsive and varied, the ensemble has a sound all its own.   

Bill Meyer

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I was tagged by Julian @unknowndeadsoldier to share some music <3 thank you sm!!!

Rule: Just share albums released this year you enjoyed and albums you discovered this year and enjoyed that were released before 2021.

Albums released in 2021:

Double Music - Sten Sandell and Lisa Ullen

Searching for the Disappeared Hour - Sylvie Courvoisier · Mary Halvorson

Albums discovered in 2021, released earlier:

Akiko Yano - OSOS

The McCrarys - Just for You

Madonna - True Blue

Madonna - I'm Breathless: Music from and Inspired by the Film Dick Tracy

Dream Dolphin - Atmospheric Healing (1996)

Heavenly - Le Jardin de Heavenly (1992)

The Lounge Lizards - The Lounge Lizards (1981) !!!

John Cage - Sonatas and Interludes!!!!

I'll tag @antsypoindexter, @theend and @producejoe!

[firefox-enthusiast]

She had such a peculiar air about her, everything she did was in some way unorthodox. The observatory was a good place for her, for us too. Given enough time and resources she would have found a way to retrieve energy from space at night, usable too! That's why our first thought was the big energy corp had taken the spark from her, taken her will to live. But then why would they go to such lengths? Why not just kill her? Maybe that's exactly what they did, killed her and made it look like a suicide. She was so brilliant and could have changed so much but the world was deprived of the chance to get to know her. That is why we set out on this quest to decipher her notebook. Of course her obvious notebook had been misplaced and no one thought it strange, but she had confided in us that the logging book she kept for plant watering schedules and information was the real juicy stuff. But what on earth does 200mL 15.00 ficus mean? This does seem sort of hopeless.

[firefox-enthusiast]

Lisa's death shocked and surprised people, but it didn't evoke strong feelings of hurt and loss. Her family was estranged and didn't know about her decease until much later. Which is in fact none of our concern because we never knew any of them, but what we want to know is how her death came about. As was already stated we first made her acquaintance in the observatory. Her work was so isolated that few even knew what it was about. Why on earth would she confide in us ? This thought is troubling, to say the least. We weren't particularly forward in our own research but many knew what we were up to and stayed away. As if academic success could be hurt by just staying near us. Lisa, however, thought our idea was refreshing. Did she think we could puzzle out her problem with her since we, ourselves, didn't mind an outrageous topic.

[firefox-enthusiast]

Her name was Lisa, Lisa Ullen. She didn't have many friends and people thought of her as being apart from their social setting. So she was free, free from peer pressure and that is how she got the the place we first met her. The observatory.

Her interests weren't unusual but she had a peculiar air about her and kept mostly to herself. When asked she said she neither identified as an extrovert or introvert, and thought behavior was primarily based on social cues and not internal preferences. Her philosophy on life was interesting to say the least but not many got to know it or her. That is why her death was all the more tragic.