UPCOMING:
+Two Slices of Acoustic Car (Mats Gustafsson & C Munthe): The Long Way Back to ETS: casette on Ideal Recordings.
+solo: 12 Songs: cdr on *for*sake recordings.
+solo: Blowing the Wind: 11 Etudes for the Archtop Acoustic Guitar: cdr on *for*sake recordings.
+collaboration w. Bon Tan Sui (video): Blowing the Wind: The Video Edition: digital video on Compost and Height. Netrelease, free download.
+duo w. Christine Sehnaoui: Yardangs: cd on Mandorla
+Various artists: Of Iff (cd compilation, Blue Tower Records)
+GUTTER (Mats Gustafsson, Christian Munthe, Raymond Strid & Roger Turner): Hidden among the Leaves (label pending)
2009
+ solo: "Blowing the Wind No. 8", track on GEIGER Gathering 2009: cdr compilation on GEIGER
2008
+Duo w. Anders Dahl: Several Kinds of Ground: cd on tyyfus
+solo: the BACKSIDE suite: cd on tyyfus
+solo: Blowing the wind, 1st Draft, Compost and Height (netrealse, free download)
+trio w. Joel Grip & Tatsuya Nakatani: So it Goes (Live at Geiger): Insubordinations netlabel (free download)
2007
+Dahl-Munthe Duo: "Gammadelta", track on Autumn Tunes, vol. 2 net-compilation on Mandorla (free download)
+Christian Munthe & Roger Turner: OCHE (cd, Kning Disk)
+duo w. Martin Öhman: The sum of any number of zeros... (cdr, electronic musik)
+Dahl-Munthe Duo: "track 3" on GEIGER bootleg 4 (netrelease + cdr, GEIGER)
+Solo: "BACKSIDE suite - prelude" on Spring Praises (netrelease, compilation, MANDORLA)
EARLIER:
+ad hoc combinations: CD 2: tracks 2 & 15, CD 3, track 5, SOUNDS 99 (compilation tripple cd & booklet, Blue Tower Records, 1999)
+VARIO 34 (w. Günter Christmann, Alexander Frangenheim, Mats Gustafsson, Thomas Lehn, Paul Lovens, Christian Munthe): * water writes always in * plural (cd, Concepts of Doing, 1999)
+Two Slices of Acoustic Car (Mats Gustafsson & Christian Munthe): Lennart (cd-single, Blue Tower Records, 1997)
+VARIO 34 (w. Günter Christmann, Alexander Frangenheim, Mats Gustafsson, Thomas Lehn, Paul Lovens, Christian Munthe): VARIO 34 (cd, Blue Tower Records & Edition Explico, 1994)
+Solo, duo & trio (Christian Munthe w. Per-Åke Holmlander, Phil Minton, Raymond Strid, Phil Wachsmann): muntmunt (cd, Blue Tower Records, 1993)
+Two Slices of Acoustic Car & FRIM Big Band: Tracks 1, 2 & 17 on Sounds: contemporary Swedish improvised music (vinyl, 2-LP & booklet, Blue Tower Records, 1989)
+The Try Me Ensemble: "Try Me" on BTHHS 50 (vinyl, EP, limited ed., Blue Tower Records, 1988?).
And besides all you people: My personal history in general, Muddy Waters playing "Manish Boy" on Swedish television sometime in the early 1970's, the Swedish political music movement during the 1970's, the female voice (Björk, Kate Bush, Patsy Cline, Lady Day, Marianne Faithful, Ani DiFranco, PJ Harvey, Jeanne Lee, Joni Mitchell, Joanna Newsom, Anette Peacock, Elis Regina, Linda Ronstadt, Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Dina Washington...), the friends in Varning för Hunden, Pich Band, and Dom Ludna, and all of my other playing partners over the years, the rest of "The Iron Gang" (Harald Hult, Mats Gustafsson, Kjell Nordeson, Edward Jarvis), Sten Sandell, the Evan Parker-Derek Bailey Duo, Günter Christmann, Paul Lovens, Phil Minton, Roger Turner, Phil Wachsmann, that NYC bunch of people in the 1980's that proved improvised pieces could be short and sharp as a smash hit (Zorn, Moss, Marclay....), Sören Runolf, Peter Söderberg, Per-Henrik Wallin, Saichiko M., Ami Yoshida, loads of "folk" music from all over the place - especially Korean traditional and improvised music, loads of jazz/jazzyish stuff (Paul Gonsalves, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Wardell Gray, Jim Hall, Eddie Costa, Monk, Hampton Hawes, Charlie Christian, Bird, Coltrane, Miles, Paul Bley, Braxton, George Lewis (both of them!), Barry Altschul, Jimmy Giuffrie, Serge Challof....), "the great american songbook", loads of fusion/progressive rock from the 1970's-80's, Ol' time american music of all shades, country kept simple and clear, The Who, Black Sabbath, Hendrix, The Kinks, Deep Purple, Cage, J.S.B., Xenakis, Franz Schubert, Scriabin, Ligeti, Pendercki, Ravel...this list could go on and on.
I've been involved in free improvised music since the mid 1980's. Before that, I played in various styles stretching from straight rock'nroll, progressive, fusion, jazz etc. etc.. I do this besides my regular job as a philosopher. Very seldom do I mix these parts of my life, but some years ago I wrote a series of essays on the concept of free improvised music - an English version of one of them is HERE.
My most longstanding collaboration is Two Slices of Acoustic Car, a duo w. saxplayer Mats Gustafsson. We've been doing it since 1986 - sparsely these days, but we actually met up and did a small bagatelle at the perspectives festival in Västerås - first gig since 1999 - and maybe we'll get around celebrating our 20+ years jubilee in a proper manner before it becomes time for 30, we'll see.
At the moment, besides various ad hoc situations, my more active collaborations are a number of duos: one with UK percussionist Roger Turner, and one with electronics artist/composer/improviser Anders Dahl. Also, quite recently, I've started collaborations with drummer/electronicsplayer Martin Öhman, vocalist Mariam Wallentin, French altosaxplayer Christine Sehnaoui, and UK percusionist Patrick Farmer.
Releases/recordings with all of these can be found through the images above and the discography to the left, or through these sources: A track with Mariam is up on the page of Sound of Music, as is a track with Patrick in my own player above. In both these latter cases, further recordings are planned, with possible future releases as a result.
In more general terms, besides the obvious one in free improvising, my interests at the moment tends to gravitate towards transcending structural boundaries (noice-melody, acoustic-electronic, loud-silent, unpleasant-beautiful...., you get the picture) and create through challenges.
=====> Besides my more or less steady collaborations, I am always open for suggestions regarding different kinds of ventures. If you have an idea, don't hesitate to message me! And if you happen to be in the area of Göteborg or the Swedish West Coast, let me know and maybe we can meet/play/record.
thanks for your friendship! ...just listen to my latest solo git improvisations "bowie on speed" and "kurani-dialog" with prepared guitar, don`t know, who else than you could hear that;-)
I wish in you kind regards for your future to be shaped by positive change and awareness. Love and Light,
Teaadora
Je souhaite dans vous leségards de type pour votre avenir être formés par le changement et la conscience positives.
L'amour et Allume,
Teaadora
Here is the upcoming tour
with Bethany Dinsick
(myspace.com/bethanydinsick):
Baltimore/ Philly/ NYC/ Mass Tour
Voici la tournée suivante avec Bethany Dinsick (myspace.com/bethanydinsick):
Baltimore/Philly/NYC/la Tournée de Masse
Nov 23 @ 8 Baltimore
The Pet Cemetary w/ King Cloud, and Boy Ghost
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204485969902
Nov 24 @ 7 Philadelphia
Germ Books (germbooks.com)
2005 Frankford Ave germbooks.com (215) 423-5002
Nov 25 @ 7 NYC (lower east side)
Recoup Lounge
210 Rivington between Pitt and Ridge Sts, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Nov 28 @ 7 Lowell, Massachusetts
Accidental Festival @ Gallery 119 (w/ Quilt, Ladderlegs, etc)
119 Chelmsford, Lowell Massachusetts
Nov 29 @ 8 Boston (Jamaica Plains)
The New Points North House (w/ Coyote Kolb)
14 Sunny Side, Jamaica Plains, Boston, Massachusetts
Nov 30 @ 10 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Middle East (ZuZu) (w/ Coyote Kolb)
474 Mass Ave, Central Square, Cambridge
Dec 1 @ TBA Northhampton, Massachussets
Dec 2 @ 8 Brooklyn, NY
Death by Audio w/ Invisible Circle and Toothache
49 South 2nd St between Wythe and Kent, Brooklyn NYC
free released for your look+listening as DVD+CD / .iso files / mov+mp3. DOWNLOAD -> www.myspace.com/ryutakwbt
DVD/mov is including two "table-top guitar" solo, two duo performance,
some studies and some more. 104.min Stereo. duo with Celebrante in Una Casa Buenos Aires,
Ryusaku "Rutang" Ikezawa in YahiroHIGHTI, Tokyo.
CD/mp3 is including a recording of acoustic resophonic guitar solo. It is a contemporary local blues that has sewwt tone. 21.min Monoral.
Catch the auditory hallucinations and modulations caused by chain of movement and interference without no computer in this works. it is magical and beautiful. hope to enjoy, sincerely.
