Results for "Mungolian Jet Set"

Mungolian Jet Set

50° Jazzaldia

by Luca Vitali
August 11, 2015

"Oltre 124.000 spettatori e più di cento spettacoli in programma a fronte di un eccellente livello artistico," sottolinea il comunicato stampa di chiusura di questa cinquantesima edizione di Jazzaldia -Heineken Jazz Festival. Come dargli torto. Uno dei grandi festival europei mantiene caratteristiche da festival “municipale," sempre attento al grande pubblico ma al tempo ...

Punkt Festival 2010

by John Kelman
September 14, 2010

The trials and tribulations of international travel—flight delays, missing or damaged baggage, and increasing limitations on said baggage—can be enough to frustrate even the most patient and seasoned world traveler. But despite an almost incredible confluence of problems flying to Kristiansand, Norway, for Punkt 2010, once there all such problems were forgotten. Punkt is simply too ...

We Gave It All Away...Now We Are Taking It Back

By Mungolian Jet Set

Label: Smalltown Supersound
Released: 2009
Track listing: CD1 (We Gave It All Away...): Y Lenotokone Mungo (Mungolian Jetset); Creepy (Mungolian Jetset); Could You Be Loved (Pizzy Yelliot vs. Mungolian Jetset); Madre Epics Part 2 (Mungolian Jetset); It Ain't Necessarily Evil (Mari Boine vs. Mungolian Jetset); Big Smack and Flies (Medievel Knievel Mix) (Ronny and Renzo vs. Mungolian Jetset); A Blast of Loser (9406 Version) (Lindstr

Mungolian Jet Set: We Gave It All Away...Now We Are Taking It Back

by John Kelman
August 22, 2009

Living in an alternate universe, where groove is paramount regardless of where it finds its inspiration, Mungolian Jet Set's debut, Beauty Came to Us in Stone (Jazzland, 2006), found its primary members--turntablist/sonic manipulator DJ Strangefruit, known in this dimension as Pål Nyhus, of Nu-Jazz progenitor/trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær's group until recently, and sound sculptor Reider Skar--creating ...

Beauty Came to Us in Stone

By Mungolian Jet Set

Label: Jazzland Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Close Encounters of the Mung Kind; Inexpired Pyro: What Took You So Long?; Slaptops; Navigator; The Ghost of Cauldron M/ I Cannot Live in Sin; Jet Setter; The Ancient and the Innocent; Technon Thai; When You're in Need (is a Constant Thing in Change).

Mungolian Jet Set: Beauty Came to Us in Stone

by John Kelman
April 24, 2008

It's only in performance, that Paal “Strangefruit" Nyhus's true value can truly be appreciated. Yes, he's a turntablist (purists can prefix that with “dreaded," though they'd be grossly mistaken), but he's also much more. He's a sound sculptor who, like Brian Eno and John Cage, finds music around every corner. He possesses an extensive record library, ...