J o e l G r i p

 

Bassist and producer originally from Stockholm, Sweden. Graduate studies at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore under the master tutelage of bassist and composer Michael Formanek. Performances as a soloist and as a part of various groups in the USA, Costa Rica, Japan, China, India, and Europe. Besides work in a musical context, collaborations often include contemporary and Butoh dancers, as well as artists, poets, and filmmakers. Frequent touring groups of note: The Jolly-Boat Pirates, Protectograph, and Shelly Blake Music. Musical director in early 2007 of Shelly Blake-Plock and Matthew H. Welch’s production of “The Violencestring”, a musical narrative entirely comprised of performances of free improvisation merged with scripted voices and folk-song. Co-organizer of the annual improvised and creative music/art-flow festival “Hagenfesten” in Dala-Floda, Sweden. Running “SPISA STHLM” – a concert series of creative music in Stockholm – with trumpet player Niklas Barnö. Manager of the organization “Public Health Music” which, through the arts and music, produces collaborative projects for the holistic development of homeless children in Odessa and Kiev, Ukraine and in Bangalore, India. Manager and main producer of the record label Umlaut Records.

PERFORMED WITH
Niklas Barnö, Eve Risser, Shelly Blake-Plock, Seiko Fukushima, Sofia Jernberg, Yoshida Tatsuya, Göran Greider, Michael Zerang, Yan Yun, David Coulter, Roland Keijser, Per-Henrik Wallin, Tim Murphy, Ingrid Jensen, Christer Bothén, Per-Åke Holmlander, Tetuzi Akiyama, Mattias Stål, Gary Thomas, Michael Formanek, Joe McPhee, Andrea Parkins, Audrey Chen, John Berndt, Shenggy, Sam Rivers, Tatsuya Nakatani, Leah Stein, Leopold Kozlowski, Fredrik Ljungkvist, Mats Gustafsson, Sören Kjaergaard, Sten Sandell, Raymond Strid, Susan Alcorn, Jack Wright, David Stackenäs, SU-EN and many others…

 

E-mail: joel@umlautrecords.com Telephone: +46703355685 Address: Ringvägen 35, 118 63 Stockholm, Sweden.