Member Since: 10/30/2006
Band Website: this one + soundclick.com/christianmunthe
Band Members: RELEASES:
UPCOMING:
+solo: the BACKSIDE suite: cd on tyyfus
+duo w. Christine Sehnaoui: Yardangs: cd on Mandorla
+Duo w. Anders Dahl: Several Kinds of Ground: cd on tyyfus
+Various artists: Of Iff (cd compilation, Blue Tower Records )
+GUTTER (Mats Gustafsson, Christian Munthe, Raymond Strid & Roger Turner): Hidden among the Leaves (label pending)
2008
+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-Ã…ke 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?)
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Influences: First of all:
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And besides all you people: My daughter Saga and our late cat Simba, My father's whimsical rendering of various popular and traditional songs with his own mixed up/altered lyrics during my childhood, my sister Berenike who taught me the rudiments of music theory and demonstrated its irrelevance to artistic creativity, 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.
Record Label: multiple, see discography
Type of Label: Indie