Results for "Jaga Jazzist"

Puma: Half Nelson Courtship

by John Kelman
June 19, 2010

It's becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with all the cross-pollination going on in Norway. Take the members of noise improv rockers Puma. Keyboardist Øystein Moen is a current member of Jaga Jazzist, a group on the comeback trail with its first release in five years, One-Armed Bandit (Ninja Tune, 2010). Guitarist Stian Westerhus--who was recruited ...

Norwegian Jazz 101b: JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2010

by John Kelman
June 8, 2010

2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 Norway may be a country that, more than most, aims to expose people from around the world to its culture through annual events like JazzNorway in a Nutshell, but as rich an experience as attending that junket is, returning to it on a regular basis is an ...

Rune Grammofon: Mutation and Reevaluation

by David McLean
April 15, 2010

Since its inception in 1998, Rune Grammofon has been at the forefront of ground breaking new music, heralding a new unprecedented interest in Scandinavian music. Whereas ECM's focus on the region has largely been based around the folk/traditional music explorations of its most prolific artists, including Jan Garbarek, Arild Andersen, Terje Rypdal and Jon Christensen, and ...

Motorpsycho: Heavy Metal Fruit

by John Kelman
March 10, 2010

Together for two decades, indie/prog rock trio Motorpsycho has gradually built an audience outside its native Norway, though the group remains a better draw in Europe than in North America. That's a situation that, by all rights, should change with Heavy Metal Fruit, a combination of metal-tinged prog, space-rock jams, and passages of reckless abandon, all ...

Flux: Peninsulator

by Ian Patterson
February 27, 2010

Any band setting out to make a debut recording these days has a potentially inexhaustible number of influences from which to draw upon. Consequently, it is increasingly difficult to sound unlike anybody else. Flux, whose members attend Copenhagen's Rhythmic Music Conservatory, has produced a recording with echoes of progressive rock, classical chamber music and post-modern jazz ...

Jaga Jazzist Featured at AAJ!

February 23, 2010

Back after a five-year hiatus, Jaga Jazzist's One-Armed Bandit (Ninja Tune, 2010) is released today in North America. To celebrate the release of One-Armed Bandit, AAJ is providing extensive coverage: Read AAJ Managing Editor John Kelman's insightful review of One-Armed Bandit; Download the title track to One-Armed Bandit, today's Daily Download; Watch Jaga Jazzist perform “One-Armed ...

Jaga Jazzist: One-Armed Bandit

by John Kelman
February 23, 2010

After a five-year break from recording, Jaga Jazzist is back. The Norwegian group's Molde Jazz 2009 performance—its first in four years, barring a single 2007 date in Singapore—provided clear evidence that the touchstones defining this sibling-run group remain intact (multi-instrumentalist Lars Horntveth writes all the music; percussionist Martin Horntveth is the onstage spokesperson for the band; ...

One-Armed Bandit

Featuring the music of Jaga Jazzist
Duration: 5:01
February 23, 2010

One-Armed Bandit (Radio Edit)

By Jaga Jazzist

Label: WEA International Inc.
Released: 2009

The Stix

By Jaga Jazzist

Label: Ninja Tune
Released: 2003
Track listing: Kitty Wu; Day; Another Day; Suomi Finland; Aerial Bright Dark Round; Reminders; Toxic Dart; I Could Have Killed Him in the Sauna; Doppleganger; The Stix.