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Article: Album Review

Motorpsycho: Heavy Metal Fruit

Read "Heavy Metal Fruit" reviewed by John Kelman

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 ...

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News: Interview

Korean Jazz Singer Youn Sun Nah Interviewed at AAJ

March 2, 2010

Since she moved to Paris in 1995, Korean jazz singer Youn Sun Nah has won over French and Korean audiences alike with her rather special voice; dramatic, sensuous and bluesy, it is a tantalizing cross between Bjork and Melody Gardot. Hers is a jazz soul. For years, she led the Youn Sun Nah 5Tet and has ...

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Article: Interview

Youn Sun Nah: Seoul to Soul

by Ian Patterson
March 2, 2010

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Article: Album Review

Jaga Jazzist: One-Armed Bandit

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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; ...

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Article: Album Review

Froy Aagre: Cycle of Silence

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by John Kelman
February 22, 2010

For her first album on the internationally distributed ACT label, saxophonist Frøy Aagre continues along the path begun with her earlier releases on the Norwegian AIM label--Katalyze (2004) and Countryside (2006)--mining her own combination of melancholic Nordicism, Baroque classicism and American jazz tradition. As on Countryside, she expands her core piano/bass/drums quartet on six tracks, enhancing ...

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Article: Album Review

Jan Gunnar Hoff: Magma

by John Kelman
February 19, 2010

Keyboardist Jan Gunnar Hoff may not have the international visibility of fellow keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft, but with a growing discography dating back to the mid-1990s and including, most recently, the powerfully fusion-esque Jungle City (Alessa, 2009), with fellow countryman/bassist Per Mathisen and ex-Weather Report percussionist/drummer Alex Acuna, that deserves to change. At the core of the ...

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Three Wise Men - Tre Vise Menn

By Mathias Eick

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2009

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Article: Album Review

Youn Sun Nah: Voyage

by Ian Patterson
December 28, 2009

Although her UK debut at London's Vortex was in May 2009, South Korean singer Youn Sun Nah has been a figure on the French jazz scene since the mid '90s when she moved there to study jazz and French chanson.Voyage, her sixth release sees her deftly accompanied by some of the top names in European jazz. ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Stunt Records: Re/Defining Mainstream

by Jakob Baekgaard
December 23, 2009

In Denmark, Stunt Records is the jazz label which appeals to the widest audience. The music it releases could be characterised as mainstream jazz, but it doesn't have the negative connotations that sometimes go with the term. It simply means that the label knows how to combine adventurousness and accessibility. When it comes to genre, the ...

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Article: Live Review

Punkt Festival 2009: Day 1, Kristiansand, Norway, September 2, 2009

by John Kelman
September 4, 2009

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 ---> Every festival has its raison d'être, but the Kristiansand festival, in Norway, has many. It's primary definer is its “Live Remix" concept--where performances in Agder Theatre's main hall are immediately followed by live remixes of the performance just passed, with additional musicians interacting, ...