Joe Williamson / House of Lords

Kanadensaren Joe Williamson, sedan många år bosatt i Sverige, är en mångsidig musiker. Redan på 1990-talet samarbetade han med musiker som Tristan Honsinger och Tony Buck. Han fanns med i utkanten av det som kom att kallas Echtzeitmusiken i Berlin. Han hade en grupp – Hudson Riv – med Sven-Åke Johansson och Rüdiger Carl, var med i gruppen Trapist med österrikarna Martin Brandlmayr och Martin Siewert och släppte en soloskiva på Creative Sources. På den svenska scenen har han spelat med Fire! Orchestra, Mats Äleklint, The Electrics, Lina Nyberg, Motståndsorkestern med flera. Dessutom har han det egna bandet The Inconvenience där han har utvecklat en naken, punkig och vinglande rock.

In his solo project Anton Toorell explores the possibilities of the acoustic guitar. Using different techniques with two guitars a cascade of notes emerges and the result is rich in metamusical phenomena. Never static, and always carried forward by subtle shifts and nuances in accent, pitch and rhythm.

Born in 2002 in the town of Mjölby, Max started playing saxophone at an early age. After studying music at high school, he spent two years at Bollnäs Folkhögskola where his interest in free and improvised music grew. At Bollnäs, the trio Tisdag På Torsdag was formed, which is still an active group in the classic free jazz spirit. Max has lived and worked in Stockholm since 2025.

Other groups are Max Oskarsson Cromwell Sextet, where they instead have a more contemporary and improvisational language with a mixture of graphic notes, spontaneous conducting and completely free improvisation. Max is also a member of the Stockholm Improvisers Orchestra, where he has written original music for the group twice. In addition to regular groups, common collaborators include Sigge Andersson, Gustaf Berg, Dennis Egberth, Vilhelm Bromander, Isak Hedtjärn and Andreas Pettersson, to name a few. Common elements in Max's music are spontaneity and trust in his fellow musicians. It can also be loud and noisy, even if the soft notes also have an important role as well.