Framework 2

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  • Add ‘Framework 2’ to your personal playlist through all global music services
    
    With their new album duo Åstrand/Berg present cross-over-songs from jazz standards to folk songs with an open form for vibraphone and marimba. Both Anders and Daniel are virtuoso classical musicians with a great passion for improvisation. Scan the QR-code, listen to the album, and get inspiration for  making your version of the songs.
    
    Framework, their first album, was released in 2014 and contains music published by Edition Svitzer like Mallet Dance, Blue Memories, Duo Arpeggio, and Moonlight.
    
    Have fun!
    Anders & Daniel
    
    
    

• Instrumentation +

  • Marimba and Vibraphone

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  • Performed by Anders Åstrand & Daniel Berg

• About the composer +

  • Anders Åstrand is a renowned Swedish mallet specialist, considered to be a unique voice of both the marimba and the vibraphone. He is a popular and sought after soloist, regularly performing and giving master classes and clinics throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.
    
    From 2017-2022 Åstrand was leading the contemporary music/improvisation class at Orford Music Summer Academy in Quebec, Canada. Since 2021 Åstrand teaches at the Evolution classical summer courses at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
    
    Anders Åstrand regularly collaborates internationally with various ensembles and groups. The Omnibus Ensemble (Uzbekistan) has premiered two of his pieces, Omnibus 17 and Next Move As a featured guest artist and mallet player Åstrand has toured both in Europe and South America with Pies En la Terra (Ecuador). He plays vibraphone in both Soundscape Orchestra and Firm roots. Soundscape Orchestra is based on electronic and acoustic instruments. Just released  their first Album in November 2018. Åstrand also plays the vibe in the big band Ann-Sofie Söderqvist Jazz Orchestra, and can be heard on the album Move.
    
    Anders Åstrand plays Yamaha instruments, Zildjian cymbals, Vic Firth mallets, and Evans drumheads.
    
    
    Daniel Berg is a Swedish composer, musician, and professor in classical percussion. He combines the role of writing music with being a versatile musician and teaches solopercussion and chamber music at the University College of Music in Gothenburg, Stockholm and Örebro in Sweden.
    
    In his passion to promote the marimba as a solo- and chamber music instrument, Daniel has worked intimately with a number of composers who have written original music for the instrument. This includes more than 300 world premieres for solo and chamber works. Daniel Berg is an artist of Bergerault Marimbas and Elite Mallets.
    
    As a composer Daniel has written a lot for percussion as Images for mallet duo, Kroumata for percussion ensemble, Mistral for solo marimba and Ups and Downs for solo marimba with tape – all published by Edition Svitzer.

• Reviews +

  • Review (Percussive Notes, October 2024)

    Framework 2 by Anders Åstrand and Daniel Berg is a collection of six works from their album of the same name. The works are “crossover songs from jazz standards to folk songs with an open form for vibraphone and marimba” and offer the players options for making their own version of the works as well as improvisation opportunities in each piece. It reminds me a lot of the works of Double Vision (Dave Samuels and David Friedman), though accessible to more players.
    
    This collection fills a need in classical percussion repertoire and bridges the gap between fully composed music and music one can improvise over. Åstrand and Berg have provided something that seasoned improvisers can utilize right away, and that allows performers new to soloing over a form to dip a toe into unfamiliar waters, so to speak. The score can be played as written, but players are encouraged to play with the form (suggestions are given), improvise a specific line, and generally be more free. The score has all applicable chord changes, and it comes with QR codes with which to access your audio streaming platform of choice to start listening to recordings right away.
    
    I highly recommend Framework 2 for any players looking to do more structured improvisation, as well as seasoned jazz players.
    
    —Joe Millea

• Credits +

  • Artwork and Cover: Nicola Lee
    Photo (Berg/Åstrand): Harry Friberg
    Printed in Copenhagen, Denmark
    Copyright © Edition SVITZER
    www.editionsvitzer.com

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