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Polar Jazz: Longyearbyen, Svalbard, February 3-7, 2011

by John Kelman
February 21, 2011

Polar Jazz / Arctic MoodLongyearbyen,Svalbard, Norway February 3-7, 2011 Flying into Longyearbyen is a surreal experience. It's a two-day trip from North America--one day to get to Oslo, Norway, and the second to make the final trek above the Arctic Circle to the islands of Svalbard, about halfway between the ...

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Live Extracts

By Eivind Aarset

Label: Jazzland Recordings
Released: 2010
Track listing: Electromoers; Electromagnetic; Still Changing; Drøbek Saray; Murky Seven; Sign of Seven; Blå Meis.

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Nik Bartsch: Rhythmically Dancing Around Fugato Fires

by Ian Patterson
December 6, 2010

Hungarian composer and pianist Béla Bartók once said, “In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution." Pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch would be the first to recognize that he is no revolutionary, as his aesthetic vision draws inspiration from multiple sources, ranging from 20th century classical ...

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Take Five With Barry Cleveland

by AAJ Staff
December 6, 2010

Meet Barry Cleveland: Barry Cleveland's guitar playing is rooted in progressive and psychedelic rock, branching into ambient, experimental, funk, and various ethnic styles--enhanced by cutting-edge electronics and unorthodox playing techniques. He's also a deft engineer and producer with an iconoclastic approach to recording and mixing. Cleveland released his first commercial album--Mythos--on Larry Fast's ...

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Eivind Aarset & The Sonic Codex Orchestra: Live Extracts

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by AAJ Italy Staff
November 24, 2010

Recentemente, Eivind Aarset ha partecipato al nostro questionario di Proust. Tra il serio e il faceto, il chitarrista ci ha confessato che la sua paura più grande è “che il pubblico alla fine capisca quanto sono incompetente" e che il suo motto è “potrebbe funzionare". Queste risposte non dimostrano solo un senso dell'understatement, e dell'umorismo, tipicamente ...

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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 ...

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Unni Wilhelmsen: 7

by John Kelman
September 4, 2010

She may be less known on an international level, but Unni Wilhelmsen is something of a star in her own country, with her 1997 debut going gold and winning two Norwegian Grammy Awards ("Best Female Artist of the Year," “Best Album of the Year"). Not bad for a singer/songwriter who began playing guitar at the age ...

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Eclectic electric jazz comes of age

by Mark Corroto
August 26, 2010

Back in the 1980s, the marriage of jazz and electronics produced the unfortunate, creativity destroying “jazz fusion" genre. That was because drum machines, synthesizer produced horn lines and computer generated hand claps were often too perfect. A sort of “sanitized for your protection" version of motel drinking glasses. Think about the then innovative trumpeter Miles Davis' ...

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Take Five with Kjetil Husebø

by AAJ Staff
August 26, 2010

Meet Kjetil Husebø:35 years-old, from Bergen, Norway, currently living in Oslo. Pianist, synth, electronics, live-sampling, programming. Main project: Optical Substance. Instrument(s):Piano, synth, laptop, samplers, electronics.Teachers and/or influences?Jan Garbarek, Bendik Hofseth, Nils Petter Molvaer, Biosphere, Jan Bang, Bugge Wesseltoft, Eivind Aarset.I knew I wanted to ...

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