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- Saxophonist Stefan Wistrand's solo album "Stängt" ("Closed") was released on 23 January 2025 on all streaming sites. In addition, there will also be a limited-edition CD. The project began as a do-it-yourself thing during the first so called "isolation year" in 2020 when the live music scene was shut down. That led Wistrand to work in a minimalist concept and experiment without preconditions with electronics and loops. Spontaneous themes and improvisations met electronic surroundings. Later his music colleagues from the Electric MZ were called in to make contributions to the album.

Reviews of "Stängt":

"...the saxophone plays the leading role throughout with long swirling melodies and improvisations. It often becomes dreamy and you are swept away by the music to unknown landscapes. The music is really well suited to traveling to, in the headphones on the bus or train for example. Titles like Dagvill, Out of reach and Rise and float show a little in what state the music was created or what state is depicted. /.../ Stängt is a brilliant title for the conditions for this album where the music contrasts with the closed by opening up new horizons. Ambient landscapes to step into and be swept away by, like bathing in a flowing river on a hot summer day."

Lira, May 23, 2025

“Wistrand has spoken of his avant-garde 1970s experimentation as his “Sturm und Drang” period. But it would be wrong to say that he has now entered a laid-back state of dormancy. The joy of discovery is intact, as is the desire to find new forms. The album may be called Stängt, but the music is certainly not confined. It widens and opens the space and moves in freedom.”

Kulturdelen, February 16, 2025 

"We hear Wistrand on soprano and tenor saxophone, keyboards and loops, Johannes Rytzler on Fender Rhodes and synthesizer, Mattias Green on bass and Johan Carlsson on drums, congas and percussion, and we get eight "tracks" composed by Wistrand. Therefore, it will not be a typical solo release, but a collective release, where the "brought in" musicians contribute positively to the fine result."
Salt Peanuts, February 26, 2025 (Norway)

“Imagine Brian Eno's album for airports combined with a smooth jazz feel with Nordic melancholy at its core. A strong and good album with eight tracks of blissful bliss.”
Blaskans Vänner, January, 2026

Listen to Stefan Wistrand's "Stängt" at Spotify or listen/buy at Bandcamp

- The legendary live album "Duo (1977)" by free jazz duo Stefan Wistrand & Peter Olsen was reissued in November 2023. Recorded at Huset in Örebro in 1977 and originally released on composer Leo Nilsson's shortlived label ViaKassett in 1978. For the cogniscenti there will be a very limited CD edition. Listen at Spotify! 

Reviews of "Duo (1977):

"... throughout this is brilliant free jazz made by two independent musicians who work together in a great way."

Salt Peanuts, December 11, 2023 (Norway)
Read the complete review in Norweigan: https://salt-peanuts.eu/record/stefan-wistrand-peter-olsen/

”Isolated invention in a scene that was heading towards complacency and commercialism, valiant instances of creativity like these preserved slices of innovative music until its recognition as part of the tradition could once again be confirmed.”
JazzWord, June 2024 (Canada)

https://www.jazzword.com/reviews/stefan-wistrand-peter-olsen/

"Almost fifty years old, it is young, boisterous and rebellious - and more in the moment than much of the new. Time is nothing."

Kulturdelen, December 12, 2023 

Read the complete review in Swedish: https://www.kulturdelen.com/2023/12/12/cd-duo-med-stefan-wistrand-och-peter-olsen/

"A time document from a time when there wasn't much such music played in the country at all, especially not in Örebro, but also music that, thanks to its power and joy of playing, feels just as relevant today!"

Jazz/Orkester Journalen 2023/6

Read the complete review in Swedish: https://orkesterjournalen.com/skiva/stefan-wistrand-peter-olsen-duo-1977/

Some fine reviews of The Electric MZ's latest album "Tales of Trees": 

“It is evocative and ongoing music, beautiful, inviting and atmospheric, which puts one in a pleasant state. But also, music that can work in a club environment and encourage dancing. A musical journey that you need now when darkness falls outside the window and when the world outside can feel so bleak.”

Jazz/Orkester Journalen 2022/6

“Unlike in traditional jazz, no space is left for the musicians to make solo outbursts, but everyone submits to a common, "blended" sound. The rocking rhythm lulls the listener into a meditative mood that seems to stop time and generates a kind of eternal music, which may recall Nik Bärtsch's Ronin. Some may find that there is too little happening, others will let themselves be enveloped by the music and embark on a mental journey with an unknown destination.” 4 out of 5 rating.

Kulturdelen, November 30, 2022

"Fun to once again take part in an organic flow where groove, moods and long solos get a lot of space. In this way, the group joins the pioneering era of the genre with greats such as Miles Davis and Weather Report. /.../ The result is quite evocative where the group dynamic celebrates triumphs, they have crackling energy between them where there is also plenty of room for swirling solos."

Lira Musikmagasin, 2023/1

CONCERTS & EVENTS

2025

Thursday, January 23, 7 p.m.
Record release for Stefan Wistrand's solo album "Stängt" @ Passage Vinkafé, Eskilstuna

Friday, February 7, 7 p.m.
Loelv/Wistrand Quartet @ Norr, Eskilstuna

Friday, July 11, 7 p.m.
Loelv/Wistrand Quartet @ Norr, Eskilstuna

Thursday, October 9
The Electric MZ @ MDU, Västerås

Saturday, October 18, 3 p.m.

Stefan Wistrand & the Closed Ensemble plays "Stängt" @ Eskilstuna City Library

2024

Monday, May 27, "Passage Ceberation"
Psychedelic Vibe (Apelmo/Wistrand) @ Passage Vinkafé, Eskilstuna

Saturday, June 29 
Stefan Wistrand & Mattias Greén @ private event 

Saturday, July 27
WRQ @ private event

Saturday, September 7

Stefan Wistrand & Mattias Greén @ private event

Saturday, October 26, 1.30 + 2.30 p.m.

Stefan Wistrand & Mattias Greén @ Eskilstuna konstmuseum

Tuesday, October 29, 6 p.m.

Psychedelic Vibe (Apelmo/Wistrand) @ Balsta Café, Eskilstuna

Thursday, November 21 

Wistrand/Rytzler Duo @ Passage Vinkafé, Eskilstuna

Friday, November 22

Stefan Wistrand & Mattias Greén @ private event

2023

Wednesday, February 8, 6 p.m.

Stefan Wistrand & Peter Olsen @ Balsta Café, Eskilstuna

Saturday, February 25

Stefan Wistrand & Peter Olsen @ Västerås Konsthall

Friday, March 31, 7 p.m.

The Electric MZ @ Norr, Eskilstuna

Saturday, April 1

The Electric MZ @ private event

Friday, May 19, 7 p.m.

WRQ @ Norr, Eskilstuna

Wednesday, July 26, 5.30 p.m.

Stefan Wistrand & Mattias Greén @ Picnic i Parken, Eskilstuna

Saturday, August 5, 3.45 p.m.

WRQ @ Birdhouse Concert #3, Landsvägsgatan 11, Sparreholm 

Saturday, September 30, 10.15 p.m.

Stefan Wistrand & Mattias Greén @ Kulturnatten, Eskilstuna

Saturday, October 14, 9 p.m.

Ersson Duo (Stefan Wistrand & Tommy Adolfsson) @ Passage Vinkafé, Eskilstuna

Friday, October 20, 7 p.m.

Stefan Wistrand with the House Band @ Norr, Eskilstuna

Friday, November 10, 9 p.m.

Stefan Wistrand & Peter Olsen @ Passage Vinkafé, Eskilstuna
(Release concert for "Duo (1977)")

Friday, November 24, 7 p.m.

Stefan Wistrand, Hans Loelv & Claes Fall @ Norr, Eskilstuna

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