FIRE! Work Song For a Scattered Past

Appearing on Friday this past week, a video by Samot Nosslin/Underhypnos was released for the song "Work Song For a Scattered Past" by FIRE! Watch as the trio of Mats Gustafsson (sax), Johan Berthling (bass) and Andreas Werlin (drums) apply their lugubrious magic to devastating effect.

FIRE! and it's bigger sibling FIRE! Orchestra and their influences have graced the pages of the Free Jazz Blog quite a few times over the years:

• Free Jazz Collective's Top Albums of 2024
• Arashi with Takeo Moriyama - Tokuzo (Trost, 2024)
• Jazz em Agosto 2024 (Part 3/3)
• A L`armé! XII Finale (Day 2)
• Ballister - Smash and Grab (Aerophonic, 2024)
• Signe Emmeluth - A Bonanza of Creativity
• Fire! - Testament (Rune Grammofon, 2024)
• Gush - Afro Blue (Trost Records, 2024)
• Dror Feiler - Maavak (Music & Noise 1980-2023 Volume 1 & 2) (The Celestial Fire / iDEAL Recordings, 2023)
• Album of the Year 2023
• Free Jazz Blog's 2023 Top 10 Lists
• Bushman’s Revenge - All the Better For Seeing You (Is It Jazz?, 2023)
• Mats Gustafsson's Instant Conduction Works
• Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra - Family (We Jazz, 2023)
• Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra - Family (We Jazz, 2023)
• Festival Causa Efeito - Lisbon, Portugal, June 28 - July 1, 2023 (Part 2)
• The End - Why Do You Mourn (Trost Records, 2023)
• Elsa Bergaman - Playon Crayon (Bergman Inspelningar, 2023)
• Fire! Orchestra - Echoes (Rune Grammofon, 2023)
• Susana Santos Silva - All The Birds And A Telephone Ringing (Thanatosis, 2022)
• Free Jazz Blog's Top 10s of 2022
• Mats Gustafsson & NU Ensemble - Hidros 8 - Heal (Trost, 2022)
• Cologne Jazzweek (Day 3)
• Fire! - Requiēs (Rune Grammofon, 2022)
• Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin - Ghosted (Drag City , 2022)
• Ballister - Chrysopoeia (Not Two, 2022) ****½
• Art Should Try to Hover Above Our Humanity a Bit and Not Wallow in It - An Interview with Damon Smith (part 3)
• Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman, Anna Lund - Space (Relative Pitch, 2022) ****½
• Jazz em Agosto 2021 - Day 3
• Two different (very different) bands that include Susana Santos Silva
• Susana Santos Silva & Torbjörn Zetterberg — Tomorrow (Porta Jazz, 2021) *****
• Fay Victor’s SoundNoiseFunk – We’ve Had Enough! (ESP Disk, 2020) ****
• Fire! - Defeat (Rune Grammofon, 2021) ****
• Viennese Electronic Dreams
• The Underflow - Instant Opaque Evening (Blue Chopsticks, 2021) ****½
• The End - Allt Ar Intet (RareNoise Records) ****½
• Luís Lopes Humanization 4tet – Believe, Believe (Clean Feed, 2020) ****
• Angles 9 10 – Today is Better than Tomorrow (Underflow, 2019) ****
• Fire! Orchestra - Actions (Rune Grammofon, 2020) ****
• David Grubbs, Mats Gustafsson, Rob Mazurek - The Underflow (Corbet vs Dempsey, 2020) ****½
• Gorilla Mask - Brain Drain (Clean Feed, 2019) ****
• Latest Releases from Paal Nilssen-Love
• Reflecting upon last decade's musical influencers
• Free Jazz Blog's 2019 Top 10s
• Mette Rasmussen and Julien Desprez – The Hatch (Dark Tree, 2019) ****
• A Conversation with Mette Rasmussen
• A L'ARME! VII Day 1
• Fire! Orchestra - Arrival (Rune Grammofon, 2019) *****
• Two more from PNL!
• Fire! And Madalyn Merkey @ Clemente Soto Velez on March 28, 2019
• Catching Up with Luís Lopes
• Latest from Norway
• Free Jazz Blog's 2018 Top 10 Lists
• Unlimited 32 Festival, Wels, Austria, Nov. 9-11, 2018
• Martin Küchen & Anders Lindsjö - The Stork and the Chimp (Konvoj, 2018) ****
• Latest Releases from Vocalist Sofia Jernberg
• Kongsberg Jazz Festival, July 2018
• Mats Gustafsson / Jason Adasiewicz - Timeless (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2018) ****
• The Thing - Again (Trost Records, 2018) ****½
• Large Unit - Fluku (PNL, 2017) ****
• Anna Högberg: The Reviews II
• Anna Högberg: The Reviews I
• Anna Högberg: Interview
• Fire! - The Hands (Rune Grammofon, 2018) *****
• Fire! - The Hands (Rune Grammofon, 2018) ****
• Aalberg, Kullhammar, Zetterberg, Santos Silva – Basement Sessions Vol. 4 (The Bali Tapes), (Clean Feed, 2017) ****½
• Ribbons of Euphoria, Music Unlimited 31 Festival, Wels, Austria, Nov. 10-12, 2017 (Part 2 of 2)
• James Blood Ulmer & The Thing – Baby Talk (Trost Records) ****½
• Jari Haapalainen Trio – Fusion Nation (Moserobie, 2017) ****
• The Swedes Are Coming #3
• Peeter Uuskyla / Tellef Øgrim / Anders Berg - Ullr (Simlas, 2017) ****
• Eve Risser / Benjamin Duboc / Edward Perraud - En Corps: Generation (Dark Tree, 2017) *****
• Latest Duos of Mats Gustafsson
• The Latest Trio Albums of Swedish Reeds Player Martin Küchen
• Free Jazz Blog on Air - Listen Now!
• 10 YEARS!
• Happy New Ears!
• The year in review
• The 2016 Free Jazz Blog Reviewer's Top 10s
• Happy New Ears 2016: VOTE
• Happy New Ears 2016: Your Nominations
• Oren Ambarchi Week Introduction
• The Swedes Are Coming
• Three Day A L'arme!
• Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids - We Be All Africans (Strut, 2016) ***½
• Free Jazz Blog on Air Available Now
• Free Jazz Blog on Air - Friday July 15th
• Mats Gustafsson and Friends - MG50: Peace & Fire (Trost, 2016) *****
• Fire! Orchestra - Rote Fabrik, Zürich, 6/8/2016
• Fire! Orchestra - Porgy & Bess, Vienna, Austria, 6/7/2016
• Mats Gustafsson - This Is From the Mouth & Det Flygande Barnet
• Fire! Orchestra – Ritual (Rune Grammofon, 2016) *****
• Fire! – She Sleeps, She Sleeps (Rune Grammofon, 2016) *****
• Julien Desprez / Benjamin Duboc / Julien Loutelier - Tournesol (Dark Tree, 2016) ****½
• Arashi - Semikujira (Trost, 2016) ****1/2
• Alberto Pinton Noi Siamo- Resiliency (Moserobie, 2016) ****
• Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra – self-titled (Discrepant, 2015) ****
• Lisa Ullén Quartet - Borderlands (Disorder, 2016) ****
• Paal Nilssen-Love: Large Unit
• Anna Högberg Attack (Omlott, 2016) ****½
• The Swedes Are Coming
• Unlimited 29 Festival: Charhizmatic Music
• Albums of the Year 2015
• Mette Rasmussen Chris Corsano Duo - All The Ghosts At Once (Relative Pitch Records, 2015) ****½
• Je Suis - Ça Va? & Ça va pas du tout! (Umlaut, 2014)
• Nuiversum - Ballads of Now & When (Repeat Until Death, 2015) *****
• Dog Life - s/t (Omlott, 2014) ****½
• Mats Gustafsson at 50
• Akira Sakata: Artist Deep Dive (Day 1)
• Fire! Orchestra - Enter (Rune Grammofon, 2014) ****½
• Fire!Orchestra: Second Exit (Rune Grammofon, 2014)
• The Thing: Boot! (The Thing Records / Trost, 2013) *****
• 2013's Top Ten Lists
• Mats Gustafsson Round Up
• Fire! - Without Noticing (Rune Grammofon, 2013) *****
• Correction with Mats Gustafsson: Shift (NoBusiness, 2013) **** ½
• Two sides of Mats Gustafsson
• Musician of the Year 2012 (an addendum)
• End-of-year Lists Galore
• HAPPY NEW EARS AWARD 2012
• Gustafsson/Russell/Strid: Birds (dEN, 2012) ****
• Fire! feat. Oren Ambarchi: In the Mouth a Hand (Rune Grammofon, 2012) *****
• Fire! with Jim O´Rourke: Released! -- Looking from a different perspective?
• The phenomenal Mats Gustafsson
• Albums Of The Year 2011
• HAPPY NEW EARS AWARD 2011
• Fire! with Jim O'Rourke - Unreleased (Rune Grammofon, 2011) *****
• Musicians of the year ... 2009
• Free Jazz Top 10 - 2009
• Fire! - You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago (Rune Grammofon, 2009) ****½

- Paul Acquaro