挪威 Norway / 瑞典 Sweden
场地 Venue
华侨城创意文化园北区B10现场 B10 Live, North District of OCT-LOFT
演出者 Artists
Mats Gustafsson – 上低音萨克斯 Baritone Saxophone / 次中音萨克斯 Tenor Saxophone
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten – 低音提琴 Double Bass / 贝斯 Bass
Paal Nilssen-Love – 鼓 Drums
1999年，The Thing作为Don Cherry的一个录音项目成立，这支来自斯堪的纳维亚的车库摇滚自由爵士三重奏不久便成为欧洲最重要的爵士乐队之一。他们演奏的乐曲种类繁多，其中包括PJ Harvey、 Albert Ayler、The White Stripes、Steve Lacy、The Stooges、The Sonics、The Cramps、Lightning Bolt和The Ex的作品。他们将这些艺术家的作品放入当代语境重新演绎，自成一格。
The Thing已经成长为当今最成功且最勤奋的自由爵士三重奏之一。他们在世界各地巡演，与之有过合作的音乐人包括：Joe McPhee、Ken Vandermark、大友良英（Otomo Yoshihide）、Jim O’Rourke、Thurston Moore、Peter Evans和Neneh Cherry等。
在全球各地举办过超过600场音乐会，发行5张录音室专辑（包括与Neneh Cherry的合作作品）、以及各类现场录音唱片之后，The Thing在2013年发行了在自有的新厂牌The Thing Records旗下的首张专辑，也是他们第六张录音室专辑——《Boot!》，并于接下来的两年陆续在该厂牌发行了现场专辑《Thurston Moore – Live》和录音室专辑《Shake》。
这些专辑把The Thing的音乐推向了全新的层次，展现了他们毫不妥协的态度，并进一步巩固了他们在当代独立音乐世界里特殊而重要的地位，为他们赢得了一众摇滚、噪音和爵士圈里的忠实乐迷。
Mats Gustafsson是欧洲自由音乐圈里最为知名的人物之一。经过Gush、AALY 三重奏、Fire!和Peter Brötzmann的Chicago十重奏的磨练，他已成为一位极具影响力的萨克斯手，并在某种程度上颠覆了传统萨克斯的演奏方式。2011年，他获得了北欧理事会音乐奖（ Nordic Council Music Prize），这是北欧国家给予音乐人的最高荣誉。
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten和Paal Nilssen-Love作为挪威国内最重型的节奏组为人所知。两人自1992年起便开启了长期的合作，作为搭档参与过的组合包括：与Ken Vandermark合作的School Days、与Raoul Björkenheim合作的Scorch三重奏，以及瑞典/挪威爵士组合Atomic。
After forming in 1999 as a Don Cherry recording project, Scandinavian garage, free jazz trio The Thing soon established themselves as one of the most important European jazz groups, playing a variety of compositions, including material by PJ Harvey, Albert Ayler, The White Stripes, Steve Lacy, The Stooges, The Sonics, The Cramps, Lightning Bolt and The Ex. They transformed the music of these artists into a contemporary context, making it their own.
The Thing has grown into one of the most successful and hardest-working free jazz trios around, traveling all over the world. They have performed with guests like Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark, Otomo Yoshihide, Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore, Peter Evans and Neneh Cherry.
After more than 600 concerts around the globe, five studio albums including their collaborative release with Neneh Cherry and a variety of live releases over the years, in 2013 The Thing presented their sixth studio album “Boot!” as the first release on their new label, The Thing Records. In 2014 followed The Thing with “Thurston Moore – Live”, and in 2015 “Shake”.
With dedicated fans in the rock, noise and jazz communities, these new albums take The Thing’s music to new, uncompromising levels and continue to solidify The Thing’s special and important position in the contemporary independent music world.
Mats Gustafsson is one of Europe’s biggest names on the free music scene. Through groups like Gush, AALY Trio, Fire! and Peter Brötzmann’s Chicago Tentet, he has established himself as a very powerful saxophonist, and has somewhat reinvented the way of playing the saxophone. In 2011 he received the Nordic Council Music Prize: the biggest prize for a musician in the Nordic countries.
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love have become known as Norway’s heaviest rhythm-section. Since their long-time collaboration started in 1992, they have been working together in several groups like School Days with Ken Vandermark, Scorch Trio with Raoul Björkenheim, and the Swedish/Norwegian jazz-group Atomic.
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视频 Videos
Viking & Red River HD
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The Thing @ Artact 2016
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The Thing (Gustafsson, Nilssen-Love, Haker-Flaten) at the Vortex – part 2
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The Thing at Artacts St Johann in Tirol, March 13, 2016
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The Thing @ Jazzhouse, Copenhagen (30th of October, 2014)
