Goran Kajfes - X/Y (2010)

Now he spreads out properly, Sweden's best trumpeter. In addition to any mission he undertakes, and in addition to his own label Headspin does he let the two albums just in time for Christmas. X is an ensemble album with the best of the best, including Per Ruskträsk Johansson, Jonas Kullhammar and Andreas ASS Söderström and with a musical, geographical and influence varied width ranging from post-bebop through modern jazz funk to African, from Harlem through Central Africa to India , Sun Ra via Miles Davis and Don Cherry The Budo Band.

Y is in many ways its antithesis, as they should, and is composed by Goran Caiaphas? experimentation on their own. It does not at all difficult access, as one might be led to believe, but leads instead of ambient pieces with a crispy electronica base serves as the foundation for a nearly sacred brass melodies.
As if that were not enough, the first 500 copies packaged in a beautiful little book with the visual arts to illustrate the boards all the pieces, so tasty that it just that the music had escaped completely on their own feet.