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Lars Horntveth

Lars is a Norwegian composer, musician and producer based in both Oslo, Norway and Los Angeles.

Moldejazz 2019

by Martin Longley
July 30, 2019

Moldejazz Molde, Norway July 15-20, 2019 In the last few years, the Moldejazz festival's artists-in-residence have kept their appearances down to a manageable human count, with two or three concert manifestations apiece from Pat Metheny, Vijay Iyer and Maria Schneider. For the 2019 edition, that position was awarded to Norwegian ...

Take Five with Lars Horntveth of Jaga Jazzist

by Lars Horntveth
November 3, 2015

About Jaga Jazzist If Jaga has any rules, there's really just one: every album must sound like nothing that preceded it. With Starfire, the group that has confounded categorization from inception has delivered yet another album unlike any they've ever done before. Yet, at the end of the day--despite touchstones ranging from Gil Evans ...

'94 - '14

By Jaga Jazzist

Label: Ninja Tune
Released: 2014
Track listing: LP1 ( A Livingroom Hush): Side A: Animal Chin; Going Down; Press Play; Airborne; Real Racecards Have Doors; Low Battery. Side B: Midget; Made for Radio; Lithuania; Cinematic. LP2 (Reworks Pt. 1): Side C: Bananfluer Overalt ( Clark Remix); Music! Dance! Drama! (Big Black Delta Remix). Side D: Kitty Wu (Machinedrum Remix); Toccata (Teebs Remix). LP3 (Reworks Pt. 2): Side E: Rose Heiress (Miguel Atwood-Ferguson); Oslo Skyline (Moiré Remix). Side F: Toccata (Illum Sphere Remix); Toccata (Invader Ace Remix).

Ljubljana Jazz Festival 2014

by Henning Bolte
July 24, 2014

2014 Ljubljana Jazz Festival 2014 Ljubljana, Slovenia July 2-5, 2014 Ljubljana--capital of the Republic of Slovenia, member of EU, neighbored by Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Italy--hosts the oldest jazz festival in Europe, which held its 55th edition this year. The event is usually organized by Cankarjev House--Cankarjev Dom, in Slovenian--a prestigious, state-run ...

Jaga Jazzist: Live with Britten Sinfonia

by John Kelman
May 10, 2013

Norway's Jaga Jazzist has always been difficult to pigeonhole. Despite the word “jazz" in the nonet's moniker, its principle writer, multi-instrumentalist Lars Horntveth, has cited everyone from Steve Reich, Rick Wakeman, Dungen and Spirit to Fela Kuti, King Crimson, MGMT and Air as influences on the group's last studio record, One-Armed Bandit (Ninja Tune, 2010). Horntveth ...

Thomas Stronen: The Tin Drum

by Adriana Carcu
July 4, 2012

One of Norway's most prolific drummers, sampling percussionists and composers, Thomas Strønen is the co-founder of Food, along with British saxophonist Iain Ballamy. The group--which, since 2005, has whittled down from an original quartet that also featured Norwegians Arve Henriksen on trumpet and Mats Eilertsen on bass--released its most recent record, Quiet Inlet, in 2010 (its ...

Montreal Jazz Festival 2011

by John Kelman
July 4, 2011

Days 1-3 | Days 4- 6 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Montreal, Canada June 25- July 4, 2011After a hiatus in 2010, in order to take a three-week Norwegian road trip, it's great to get back to the festival that the Guinness Book of Records calls “The biggest ...

Jaga Jazzist: Maximalistic

by Angela Shawn-Chi Lu
June 24, 2011

A Norwegian nonet that rocks 35 instruments onstage and smashes Afrobeat, prog, film music, cheesy fanfares and Steve Reich arpeggios together against a backdrop of gigantic slot machine fruit? The odds of that happening are “No friggin way!" But as it turns out, one such nonet does exist. What's even more shocking is that Jaga Jazzist ...

Kaleidoscopic

By Lars Horntveth

Label: Smalltown Supersound
Released: 2009
Track listing: Kaleidoscopic.