Enhet För Fri Musik

Dokument 1: Improvisationer Och Bandmusik För Vilt Dansande Själa by Enhet För Fri Musik on Aguirre.

"With spiritual roots in the candour of the 1960s free jazz and the raw aethestics of early 2000s free folk, Enhet started delving into different forms of (semi) improvised musical expression around 2015. ‘Fri Musik’ is a very apt generalisation of previous liberating endeavours in music history, since the Enhet does not approach the freedom trope from a genre bound perspective, they are as much folk as they are ambient or lo-fi cassette experiment. At times they sound like an indigenous tribe from some undefined part of the world, then again like hazy mutterings from a long forgotten utopian hippy commune.

Dokument 1: Improvisationer Och Bandmusik För Vilt Dansande Själar celebrates spontaneity over orchestration, imagination over production. The story goes that it was the group’s aim to record a progressive jazz record, only brilliantly failing in doing so. They would sit together drinking, only to see someone picking up an instrument every now and then and having a go at it. The record, then, is labelled as a ‘document’ for a reason. What is offered here are stimuli of what could possibly become ballads, but obstinately refuse to do so. It is a registration of their hiss drenched freedom culture, not ‘an album’ as such. The drafts and sketches are molded into miniature song deconstructions that synthesize diy sound culture of the last seven decades in a way that is both local and universal.

The wild dancing souls that are mentioned in the record’s title are haunting through these documents as the summoned predecessors, but they are also the souls of the listeners. Witnesses who are evoked to be alienated and disoriented into the Enhet’s cult of intuition, soaked into an ambiguous organism that is nightmarishly intimate, and soothingly discomforting."