The Swedish bassist Dan Berglund's Tonbruket's new ‘live’ album is recorded at Stuttgart's Bix Jazzclub and has a repertoire selected from three (out of the four) albums previously released on Munich's ACT label. As with previous CDs, the band have references that join up poppy synth-fired prog with more mainstream areas of rock and contemporary Euro-jazz fusion. Tonbruket means Sound Factory in Swedish and it highlights the four-piece's biggest asset, which is their polished, space-age-y sonic ambience. Even in live performance there tends to be little room for collective spontaneity and any stretching out, be it instrumentally or structurally, is limited. Of course, Berglund was the bassist for EST, the band ACT will forever be associated with and whose live shows were legendary. But Tonbruket strike me as primarily a studio-based band, far more interested in sonic than improvisational nuances. Four albums down the line though, the Tonbruket signature is perhaps losing its shine and in need of a shakeup, at least for anyone other than their biggest fans.