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Sweden has been a European base for avant-garde jazz legends such as Albert Ayler since the 1960s and some of the most intense and challenging sounds in international improvisation and jazz has been staged in the country. More recently, coming from another context of experimentation, electronic music spread and developed into an impressive work of "drone" music and what is sometimes tagged "sound art". For the past decade, the experimental musical niche has been booming all around Scandinavia...
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