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Katzen Kapell

Si Tu Veux

=C2=A9 2007 Ragadang Records (7320470085622)

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A colorful world of an old vaudeville show, the = craziness of=20 tango and the incompatible mix of rock and jazz.

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: 1 Bukarest
: 2 Dorleac
: 3 Si Tu = Veux
: 4 Familjen
: 5 R=C3=A4vspel<= /DD>
: 6 N=C3=A4r du=20 ins=C3=A5g
: 7 Taxin

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Jazz: Contemporary Jazz
World: South American
Type: = Lyrical

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San Francisco Chronicle
NIGHTLIFE
Katzen Kapell Squeeze box is = front=20 and center in diverse Swedish band
whose experimental sound is = inspired by=20 Piazzolla, Zappa and Stravinsky

Derk Richardson
Thursday, = October 11,=20 2007

Catharina Backman has a great excuse for playing the = accordion.=20 "They
forced me to," says the founder and leader of the eclectic = Swedish=20 band
Katzen Kapell. "I played the piano but was touring with a small=20 circus,
and they said, 'You won't have this job unless you learn the=20 accordion.' "

In 1986, after a couple of seasons with = Variet=C3=A9 Vauduvill,=20 Backman got
together in Stockholm with a few former fellow music = students and=20 formed
Katzen Kapell. (The name was inspired by the Katzenjammer Kids = comics=20 but
also derives from the Swedish words for cat and = ensemble.)

By=20 then, Backman had changed her tune about the squeeze box. "I = didn't
even like=20 the instrument," she said in a recent midnight telephone
conversation = from=20 Sweden, "until I heard the bandoneon player from
Argentina, Astor = Piazzolla."=20 Upon listening to the master of tango nuevo
in 1984, Backman = recalled, "I=20 just thought, 'I'm in heaven.' The music was
so beautiful, so tender, = so=20 aggressive, so humoristic, so rhythmic. It
really appealed to me. I = couldn't=20 copy it, but I'm really inspired by it."

In Katzen Kapell, = Backman's=20 passion for Piazzolla plays against
keyboardist-composer Magnus = Andersson=20 Lagerqvist's fascination with Frank
Zappa and Igor Stravinsky. Add a=20 classical violinist (Eva Lindal),
acoustic double bassist (Gustaf = Hielm),=20 rock-influenced drummer (Erik
Hammarstr=C3=B6m), and jazz-inspired = vibraphonist=20 and percussionist (Kjell
Nordeson) and you have a band that Backman = says=20 appeals to "mixed
audiences, from teenagers to very old = people."

In an=20 e-mail exchange, vibist Nordeson, who divides his time = between
Stockholm and=20 San Francisco, noted that Katzen Kapell plays "all kinds of
venues - = jazz=20 clubs, art venues, contemporary music series, concert halls,
rock = clubs. I=20 have the impression that audiences can easily relate to our
music in = many=20 ways." Nordeson joined the group in 1991. He has his own
ambivalence = about=20 the instrument he plays. "I have some kind of love-hate
relationship = with the=20 vibraphone," he said. "I love its potential for
creating melody and = harmony,=20 but am often frustrated by its unchangeable
pitch. That feeds a need = to=20 override the instrument and avoid its
idiomatic = cliches."

Katzen=20 Kapell has proved a perfect vehicle for such experimentation. = "The
band=20 manages to stay away from too academic an approach, and nourishes = a
closeness=20 to an alternative prog-punk tradition," Nordeson said, "despite
the = fact that=20 Catharina has gone through seven years of university studies
in = classical=20 composition."

With three CDs to its credit, including the new "Si = Tu=20 Veux," Katzen
Kapell is only now making its U.S. debut - four shows = in the=20 Bay Area
pivoting around an invitation from Other Words, the fifth = annual=20 San
Francisco International Poetry Festival. At the Swedish American=20 Hall
Sunday - and Wednesday at Stanford University's Wallenberg Hall = - the=20 band
will accompany actress Sara Lindh reciting lyrics by Swedish = poet=20 Bodil
Malmsten.

Katzen Kapell's compositions and = improvisations now=20 draw on dance hybrids
from North Africa, the Middle East and the = Asian=20 subcontinent, as well as
European folk music and modern film scores. = The=20 sound should play well in
San Francisco, birthplace of groups like = Tin Hat=20 and Tango No. 9, because,
as Backman said, "the music fits in = everywhere and=20 nowhere."

- Derk Richardson, 96Hours@sfchronicle.com

This = article=20 appeared on page G - 4 of the San Francisco Chronicle

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Katzen Kapell - Si tu veux

author: FRANCISCO JAVIER GASTON

Parec=C3=ADa que no iban a publicar m=C3=A1s trabajos los suecos = Katzen Kapell pero=20 la espera ha merecido la pena. Una nueva joya de fusi=C3=B3n de = estilos. Para mi=20 gusto, de lo mejor de 2007

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