Karl Brothers – Air Change

In 1970, the two musicians Jörgen Adolfsson and Tommy Adolfsson met in a jazz-rock group. At the time, Jörgen played free improvised music in the group ISKRA, a group that Tommy would also join later on. They also played together in the bands Archimedes Badkar, Bröderna Brothers, and Bitter Funeral Beer Band.

Karl Brothers, 1994. Foto: Thomas Gidén

In the late 1970’s, they started the band Karl Brothers, first named Adolfosso Duo. The setting was acoustic, and the main instruments was trumpet and soprano saxophone. The music, completely improvised. In the 1980’s, they started to collaborate with choreographers, dancers and mime artists, expanding their instrument range to all kinds of wind instruments, like contrabass clarinet, conch (sea shells), cornet, and overtone flutes, as well as more and more electric gear such as synths, samplers and amplified trumpets.

On the 5th October 2020, Jörgen Adolfsson and Tommy Adolfsson also celebrated their 50 years side by side in music with a live-streamed concert from Musik- och Teaterbiblioteket in Stockholm, available for viewing on Caprice Records’ Youtube channel:

The album contains 13 tracks, and is available on all major streaming and download platforms.

Recorded and mixed at Rub-A-Dub Studio, summer of 1994.
Technician: Tom Hofwander & Wilfredo Stephenson
Mastering: Peter Dahl
Graphics: Logomotion