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The Jist: The Jist

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 2, 2014

The Norwegian duo The Jist--vocal artists and electronics player Natalie Sandtorv, and guitarist Torgeir Hovden Standal--take the experimental concept of improvised meetings between innovative vocal artists and guitarists to its noisy extremes. This concept was pioneered by the master vocal artist Sidsel Endresen and highly inventive guitarist Stian Westrhus (Didyomi Dreams, Rune Grammofon, 2012) and later was presented in a much gentler, still highly poetic version, by vocalist Hanna Gjermundrød and genre-blind guitarist Petter Vågan (Renedition Of A Whisper, Gigafon, ...