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At
ayler records, we love art. Not just music,
but all art forms.
You might have noticed that we've always tried to be consistent
with the design of our cover art, based on the paintings of
Åke Bjurhamn.
But photography is also part of the picture (so to speak…),
and when it comes to documenting the sessions or live shows
we record, photographers like Heiko Purnhagen
are our invaluable allies.
Some of the people we've dealt with over the years, like Jean-Luc
Guionnet and Steve Dalachinsky, are also
involved in art forms other than music.
We're pleased to take the opportunity to present some of their
work on this section of our website.
Choose from the list below, and enjoy!
 Åke
Bjurhamn – painter
Steve
Dalachinsky – poet
Heiko
Purnhagen – photographer
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Åke
Bjurhamn
Ayler Records cover designer extraordinaire!
Born in Linköping, Sweden, 1945
Education
Forum Art School, Malmö, Sweden
Represented in:
Museum Vostel, Spain,
Salong de Tokyo, Japan,
The Swedish Art Council,
The museum of Art in Linköping,
The museum of Art in Norrköping,
Linköpings kommun, Norrköpings kommun, Mjölby
kommun, Malmö kommun, Varberg kommun,
and many other collections for Swedish official officies.
Åke Bjurhamn's paintings from 1981 (which were
the result of his trip to NYC in 1980 and have been
at the origin of so much Ayler Records cover art), have
been exhibited at Kraftstationen in Norrköping,
Sweden, during summer 2006.
See
pictures Read
article Watch
video
Check out the pictures from Åke's recent exhibition
at Jakobsbergs
Konsthall in Stockholm.
Read Åke's
interview on Jazznet.
Other collections by Åke Bjurhamn are shown at:
www.fanzinet.nu
The 'Albert Ayler Suite' paintings displayed on the
right were created in spring 2006 and are made in acrylic
on canvas.
All are unique and for sale for $500 each excluding shipping.
For enquiries about these paintings, please contact
Åke directly.
 bjurhamn@fanzinet.nu
www.fanzinet.nu
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MINI GALLERY
NEWS
Åke has just finished a series of paintings
inspired by the great free jazz pianist Marilyn
Crispell, who he met during the Perspective 2007
festival
in Västerås, Sweden.
For more information and pictures, click
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Heiko
Purnhagen
Towards concert photography...
My interest in photography started for real at the age
of 17, when I took a borrowed single-lens reflex (SLR)
camera with me on a one week school trip on board of a
traditional sailing vessel. A bit later I got my own SLR
camera, which followed me on countless trips and journeys
and taught me some of the fundamentals of photography.
When moving from Germany to Sweden in 2002, I switched
to a digital compact camera, basically because it makes
sharing pictures so much easier in the age of the Internet.
And I soon learned to appreciate the immediate feedback
on a monitor, since it now became much easier to experiment
and try something odd or new.
Moving to Stockholm enabled me also to explore the innovative
Jazz scene in the north of Europe. Soon, I became a regular
at the Glenn Miller Café, a unique jazz club here
in Stockholm, and started traveling to various Jazz festivals
in Norway. However, trying to take pictures at such concerts
with a compact camera is a frustrating exercise, especially
if you want to capture the atmosphere with available light,
and don't want to disturb the situation with a flash.
Being tired of these limitations, and longing for looking
through a "real" viewfinder again, I switched
back to an SLR camera again, a digital one now, once they
became affordable.
With this camera and some nice lenses, I got really hooked
on concert photography. Finally, there is a chance to
capture the atmosphere of live performances and get portraits
of musicians that really mean something to me.
And sometimes I even get a picture that I'm willing to
show...
mail@heikopurnhagen.net
www.heikopurnhagen.net
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Steve
Dalachinsky
Steve Dalachinsky was born in 1946, Brooklyn, New York.
His work has appeared extensively in journals on &
off line including; Big Bridge, Milk, Unlikely Stories,
Xpressed, Ratapallax, Evergreen Review, Long Shot, Alpha
Beat Soup, Xtant, Blue Beat Jacket, N.Y. Arts Magazine,
88 and Lost and Found Times.
He is included in such anthologies as Beat Indeed, The
Haiku Moment and the esteemed Outlaw Bible of American
Poetry.
Dalachinsky has written liner notes for the CDs of many
artists including Anthony Braxton, Charles Gayle, James
"Blood" Ulmer, Rashied Ali, Roy Campbell, Matthew
Shipp and Roscoe Mitchell.
His 1999 CD, Incomplete Direction (Knitting Factory Records),
a collection of his poetry read in collaboration with
various musicians, such as William Parker, Matthew Shipp,
Daniel Carter, Sabir Mateen, Thurston Moore (SonicYouth),
Vernon Reid (Living Colour) has garnered much praise.
His most recent chapbooks include Musicology (Editions
Pioche, Paris 2005), Trial and Error in Paris (Loudmouth
Collective 2003), Lautreamont's Laments (Furniture Press
2005), In Glorious Black and White (Ugly Duckling Presse
2005), St. Lucie (King of Mice Press 2005), Are We Not
MEN & Fake Book (2 books of collage - 8 Page Press
2005). Dream Book (Avantcular Press 2005).
His books include A Superintendent's Eyes (Hozomeen Press
2000) and The Final Nite (complete notes from a Charles
Gayle Notebook, Ugly Duckling Presse 2006).
His latest CD is Phenomena of Interference, a collaboration
with pianist Matthew Shipp (Hopscotch Records 2005).
He has read his poems throughout the N.Y. area, the U.S.,
Japan and Europe, including France and Germany.
skyplums@juno.com
Steve's
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Steve Dalachinsky at Vision Festival,
NYC - June 15, 2005 - Play
video (wmv)
NEWS
Steve Dalachinsky's The Final Nite
& Other Poems, based on the artistry
of Charles Gayle and co-published by Silkheart Records
& Ugly Duckling Presse, is distributed and marketed
by Ayler Records.
It was chosen by PEN Oakland as its poetry winner for the 17th Annual National Literary Awards that took place in December 2007.
Check out the catalogue
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