JAGA JAZZIST

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JAGA JAZZIST GOES TO CHURCH
Check out video of Jaga Jazzist performing a dogma version of the song "Toccata" in Tønsberg's grand church, Tønsberg Domkirke. See Even crawling on the floor doing the pedals on the church organ and Marcus playing guitar from the preachers chair

This video is made by the excellent music program, NRK Lydverket. Enjoy!



JAGA JAZZIST ONE-ARMED BANDIT T-SHIRTS..
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Jaga Jazzist is now also on Facebook and Twitter
You can read about the Japan Tour, see pictures and films on Facebook and Twitter




JAGA JAZZIST
Press Release for "One-Armed Bandit - Album"

The nine piece Norwegian jazz-rock-experimental behemoth that is Jaga Jazzist return to the fray with their stunning new album, “One Armed Bandit”. All galloping rhythms, and grandiloquent reach, main man Lars Horntveth describes the new sound, tongue-a-little-in-cheek, as “Wagner meets Fela Kuti!” Certainly we find it harder to imagine a better soundtrack being written for the first Nollywood Viking epic.

Jaga Jazzist have become something of a musical phenomenon in Norway since they started out fifteen years ago. Not only is this instrumental band regarded as one of the most exciting and innovative in Norway, the members are all involved in other musical projects and have in one way or another contributed to almost every significant recording to come out of that part of the world in the last few years. Their albums sell huge quantities in their own country and massive crowds come to their shows. Their international acclaim is signalled by the fact that the new album was mixed in Chicago by John McEntire of Tortoise.

Lars Horntveth began writing the music for “One-Armed Bandit” early in 2008. Looking for a way between and beyond the band’s previous albums, “What We Must” and “The Stix,” Hornveth decided that everything would be charted and written out, noth more focussed and layered than ever before. One night, while listening to Fela Kuti, he came up with title-track “One Armed Bandit” and everything fell into place – a kinf of ride of the polyrhythmic acid-addled valkyries that scarecely lets up across the 53 minutes of the final album.

Having taken on two new members, Øystein Moen and Stian Westerhus, the band rented a house in the Swedish forest to rehearse “this new Zappa-esque, more humorous prog-rock music.” On their return they rehearsed endlessly, a new tune each week, until in December 2008 the band went to Cabin Recorders to put down the album with Jørgen Træen, their producer since the early days of the group. Unfortunately, through no fault of the band’s, Træen got tinnitus after three weeks, so the mixing was completed in Chicago by the band and none other than John McEntire.

At heart this collective is a restless soul, going in many directions at the same time, but always going forward. Fast. The band always push their boundaries, both personal and musical. That is why they are impossible to categorize. And that's why they're special. Jaga is something natural and beautiful. A necessity. For both them and us.

1. The Thing Introduces...
2. One-Armed Bandit
3. Banafleur Overalt
4. 220 V / Spektral
5. Toccata
6. Prognissekongen
7. Book Of Glass
8. Music! Dance! Drama!
9. Touch Of Evil


..ROCKEFELLER 2010
Photos: Robin Ottersen and Thomas Rodahl Dedekam

..JAPAN TOUR 2009
Photos: Shinji Abe, Martin Horntveth, Mathias Eick & Line Horntveth

..ØYA FESTIVAL 2009
Photos: Steffen Rikenberg, Jan Erik Svendsen & Bård Sogge

..MIXING/PRODUCING THE ALBUM IN CHICAGO
Photos: Martin & lars Horntveth ...

..JAGA JAZZIST MAKING THE NEW ALBUM!!
Photos: Fotograf Træen, Audun Borrmann and Jaga Jazzist

In December 2008 we've recorded the new album in Cabin Recorders, Oslo.
Check out pictures from the studio sessions

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Member Since:

March 15, 2006

Members:

..BANANFLUER OVERALT EP OUT JULY 12TH ON NINJA TUNE
12" AND DOWNLOAD
Remixes by PRINS THOMAS, FINAL, SPRUTBASS & CUCKOO
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Press Release for "Bananfluer Overalt EP"

Norway’s most famous and acclaimed nine-piece jazz/alt.rock/prog/baroque/afro-beat masters return to the fray with a new EP drawing on their recent album, “One-Armed Bandit.” “Bananfluer Overalt” is a mixture of epic refrains, polyrhythmic mania and fiendish musicianship, sophistication and naivety being slammed together so hard that they fracture into something else altogether.

After that brief reminder of the wonders of Jaga, though, Lars Horntveth and co call in the remixers. Sprutbass comes straight out of the Scandinavian Skweee scene centred around the dødpop label. In keeping with the central tenets of the sound, Sprutbass reimagines “One-Armed Bandit” as three million synths riding to Valhalla on the back of a giant mechanical bird built on the offcuts of Chic’s leather jackets. FINAL (known to his mum as Magnus August Hoiberg) takes “220v / Spektral” and makes it into sunny disco/electro. Animator and producer Andreas Paleologos aka Cuckoo, on the other hand, turns “Touch of Evil” into the soundtrack for the heartbreaking sibling rivalry of Mario and Luigi, before Prins Thomas rounds things out with a slow-building and utterly epic 11 minute “Diskomiks” of the title track, held together by a low-slung baggy groove.

In an age of identikit, carefully-constructed and self-conscious acts, Jaga Jazzist are pure Nordic fresh air – pedal-to-the-metal, maverick, funny and serious, great musicians not too hung up on “taste” or appearing cool. And after all, what’s cooler than that?

..LIVE AT COSMOPOLITE DVD OUT NOW!!

A SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND RELEASE:
"Jaga Jazzist is 15 years! To celebrate this anniversary we have together with the band put together a DVD to celebrate this. We're happy to announce the first ever live documentation of Jaga Jazzist in the band's career. And as Jaga Jazzist is known as a fantastic liveband, we all thought it was about time. The concert was filmed at Cosmopolite in Oslo the 4th of April 2005. The concert was directed by Marius Revold with a big film crew making this a spectacular concert film. Also included on the DVD is exclusive interviews with the band member as well as all the videos the band has ever made. And as if this was not enough, there is a special bonus track here that has never been released, but strangely enough there was made a video for this track (!). So you get a new video and a new track all in one, the beautiful “Synchronize Yr Watches”.

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..JAPAN TOUR 2009 FILM


..THE THING PERFORMS "ONE-ARMED BANDIT" RIFF


CHECK OUT VIDEO CLIP FROM PSTEREO FESTIVAL



..MOLDE JAZZ FESTIVAL 2009
Photos: Kenneth Staurset Fåne, Gaburu & Madli

JAGA JAZZIST 2010
Mathias Eick – Trumpet, upright bass, keyboards + vibraphone
Marcus Forsgren – Guitars + effects
Even Ormestad – Bass + keyboards
Andreas Mjøs – Vibraphone, guitars, drums + electronics
Line Horntveth – Tuba + percussion
Martin Horntveth – Drums + drum-machines
Lars Horntveth – Tenor sax, bass-clarinet, guitars + keyboards
Øystein Moen – Keyboards
Erik Johannessen - Trombone + percussion

Influences:

Jean-Claude Vannier, Cornelius, Jon Balke & The Magnetic North, The Flaming Lips, Wilco, Robert Wyatt, Jim O' Rourke, John Fahey, Radiohead, Charles Mingus, MGMT, Elephant 9, Colin Blunstone, Dr. John, Steve Reich, Sonic Youth, Supersilent, Eleni Karandrui, Woody Allen, Michel Gondry, John Szwed, Sun RA, Oslo 13, Jøkleba, Van Dyke Parks, David Lynch, Yma Zumac, Dungen, Can, Tortoise, Fleet Foxes, Bjørk, Motorpsycho, Magnet, Miles Davis & Gil Evans, Bruce Springsteen, Beck, The Mars Volta, Sigúr Ros, The Notwist, My Bloody Valentine, Bernard Herrmann, Angelo Badalamenti, Air, Jonny Greenwood, Kronos Quartet, Sir Dupermann, Jr Ewing, Rufus Wainwright, Antony & The Johnsons, Huntsville, The Beatles, Björn Isfält, Benny Anderson, Billy Cobham, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Mike Oldfield, Destiny's Child, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, Jamie Lidell, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Todd Rundgren, NWA, De La Soul, Dum Dum Boys, Dire Straits, Missy Elliott, Keith Jarrett, Elton John, Susanna & the Magical Orchestra, Dolly Parton, Thomas Dybdahl, Beyoncé, Bigbang, Kim Hiorthøy, Aimee Mann, Ennio Morricone, Pluramon, Martin Hagfors, The Carpenters, The Allman Brothers Band, David Bowie, Phil Collins, A-ha, America, The Bangles, Beach Boys, Busta Rhymes, Dead Kennedys, Emmylou Harris, Mercury Rev, Gabriel Fauré, Shining, In The Country, Brad Mehldau, Astor Piazzolla, The Band, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Michael Jackson, Thom Hell, Bo Hansson, The Neptunes, Nick Drake, Sly & The Family Stone, Arthur Russel, Spiritulized, M83, Outkast, Deathprod, Phoenix, Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello, KILLL, Adjágas, Alison Krauss & Union Station, The Arcade Fire, John Adams, Bauer, The Lionheart Brothers, 120 Days, Carter Burwell, Curtis Mayfield, Justice, Feist, Happy Mondays, Ride, Money Mark, The Stone Roses, Joni Mitchell, Kaada, Kate Bush, Mark Mothersbaugh, Midlake…

Sounds Like:

WHAT WE MUST EPK 2005 - Directed by Andreas J. Riiser


ALL I KNOW IS TONIGHT 2005 - Directed by Lasse Gretland

DAY 2003 - Directed by AKFF!

ANIMAL CHIN 2002 - Directed by AKFF!

AIRBORNE 2001 - Directed by Lasse Gretland




DISCOGRAPHY

Check www.jagajazzist.com for cover artwork

What We Must CD + Vinyl
2005 (Ninja Tune/Smalltown Supersound/Sonet)

What We Must Special Edition - Including "Spydeberg Sessions"
2005 (Ninja Tune/Smalltown Supersound)

Magazine - Reissue, International Edition / New Kim Hiorthøy cover art
2004 (Smalltown Supersound)

Day 12” + CD EP - Including remixes by Matthew Herbert and Dat Politics + 4 Live
2004 (Ninja Tune / Smalltown Supersound)

Motorpsycho + Jaga Jazzist Horns
In the fishtank - CD + Vinyl
2003 (Konkurrent)

The Stix CD + 2xVinyl - International Edition / New Kim Hiorthøy cover art
2003 (Ninja Tune / Smalltown Supersound)

Animal Chin EP 12” + CD
2003 (Golden Standard Labs)

A Livingroom Hush – CD + Vinyl, International Edition / New Kim Hiorthøy cover art
2002 (Ninja Tune / Smalltown Supersound)

Days 12”
2002 (Smalltown Supersound)

The Stix
2002 (Smalltown Supersound / Warner Music Norway)

A Livingroom Hush - Japanese Edition (3 bonus tracks)
2002 (Beat Ink)

Going Down 12"
2001 (Smalltown Supersound)

Airborne/Going down EP
2001 (Warner Music Norway)

A Livingroom Hush
2001 (Warner Music Norway)

Jaga Jazzist Magazine EP
1998 (Dbut Records)

Jævla Jazzist Grete Stitz
1996 (Thug Records)
SOLD OUT!


TRACKS ON COMPILATIONS:

"Swedenborgske Rom"
You Don't Know - Ninja Cuts
2008 (Ninja Tunes)

"Plym"
Where we're at (STS Sampler2)
2004 (Smalltown Supersound)

"Digital Carrot" (Toxic Dart)
The smalltown Supersampler
2002 (Smalltown Supersound)

"Kitty Wu"
Jazz cd.no/ jazz from Norway - compilation
2002 (NJF)

"Airborne"
Acid jazz magazine - compilation
2002 (Acid jazz magazine)

"Kitty Wu"
A Fjord Focus, The Wire compilation 2002

"Stort+Svart"
Solide Saker - En hyllest til dumdum boys
1999 (Oh No!)

"Under minas"
Blå i molde - compilation
1999 (bp)

"Serafin i jungelen"
Det norske hus - compilation
1997 (Dbut Records)


ALBUMS FEATURING JAGA FAMILY CONTRIBUTION:

Susanne Sundfør - The Brothel
2010 (EMI Norway)

Thom Hell - All Good Things
2010 (Voices Of Wonder/VME)

Martin Hagfors - Men And Flies
2009 (Me)

Puma // Lasse Marhaug - Fist full of knuckles
2009 (Knuckleman Records)

Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Kobert
2009 (MNJ Records)

Lord Kelvin - Dances In The Smoke
2009 (Jazzland Recordings)

Side Brok - Ekte Menn
2009 (pinaDgreit Records)

The Opium Cartel - Night Blooms
2009 (Termo Records)

Eva & The Heartmaker - Let's Keep This Up Forever
2009 (Columbia/Sony Music)

Haakon Ellingsen - The Plum Album
2008 (Termo Records)

Trondheim Jazz Orchestra - Wood and Water
2008 (MNJ Records)

Loud Jazz Band - Living Windows
2008 (LJB Music Recording)

Lars Horntveth-Kaleidoscopic
2008 (Smalltown Supersound)

Mathias Eick - The Door
2008 (ECM)

Ingrid Olava - Juliet's Wishes
2008 (Emi Norway)

The National Bank - Come On Over To The Other Side
2008 (Universal Music, A:Larm Music)

Thom Hell - God If I Saw Her Now
2008 (Voices Of Wonder/VME)

Marit Larsen - The Chase
2008 (EMI Norway)

Puma -Discoteque Bitpunching
2008 (Bolage Records)

Lester - This Village
2008 (Deaf Ear/Musikkoperatørene)

Maria Mena - Cause And Effect
2008 (Columbia)

Bob Haley- Let it last
2008 (Pilàr)

Puma - Isolationism
2007 (Bolage Records)

Frost - Love! Revolution!
2007 (FrostWorld Recordings/VME)

Deadends - Deadends
2007 (HoneyMilk)

Salvatore - Days of Rage
2007 (Racing Junior)

HGH - All The Men In Dresses
2007 (NorskAmerikaner)

Saralunden.Bjørkaas.Mjøs - Dubious
2007 (Nexsound)

Levi Henriksen & Thomas Mårud - Bang Bang Rett Ned
2007 (Norskamerikaner)

Slagr - Solaris
2007 (Norcd)

Dinosau - A Little Crime
2007 (Propeller Recordings)

Trondheim Jazz Orchestra - Live In Oslo
2007 (MNJ Records)

Nordgarden - The Path Of Love
2008 (Giardino del Nord)

The Cheaters - The Cheaters
2007 (Big Dipper Records)

Loud Jazz Band - Passing
2007 (LJB Music Records)

Hanne Hukkelberg - Rykestrasse 68
2007 (Propeller recordings/Sonet/Nettwerk)

Lionheart Brothers - Dizzy Kiss
2007 (Racing Junior)

Rockettothesky - To Sing You Apple Trees
2006 (Trust Me Records)

DumDum Boys - Gravitasjon
2006 (Oh Yeah!)

Thomas Dybdahl - Science
2006 (Universal Music Norway)

Odd Nordstoga - Heim Te Mor
2006 (Universal Music Norway)

Susanna & The Magical Orchestra – Melody Mountain
2006 (Rune Grammofon)

Marit Larsen - Under The Surface
2006 (EMI Norsk)

Four Tet-Remixes
2006 (Domino Recording)

Noxagt - Noxagt
2006 (Load Records)

Christer Knutsen - Grand Hotel
2006 (Frode Records)

MOHA! - Raus Aus Stavanger
2006 (Rune Grammofon)

White Willow - Signal To Noise
2006 (The Laser's Edge)

Serena Maneesh – Serena Maneesh
2005 (Honeymilk)

Adjágas - Adjágas
2005 (Trust Me)

Noplacetohide - Zukunft
2005 (Entartete Musik)

Noplacetohide - Vegangenheit - 10th Anniversary Edition
2005 (Entartete Musik)

Turbonegro - Party People
2005 (Burning Heart)

Gebhardt/Mjøs - Alt For Norge/To Much Norway Soundtrack
2005 (Apache)

Christer Knutsen - Would You Please Welcome
2005 (Frode Records/Universal)

Loud Jazz Band - The Way to Salina
2005 (Allegro)

Martin Horntveth - Fast Motion/Skull EP 12"
2005 (Smalltown Supersound)

Tahiti 80 - Changes 12"
2005 (Atmoshperiques)

In The Country - This was the pace of my heartbeat
2005 (Rune Grammofon)

Shining - In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster
2005 (Rune Grammofon)

Haakon Ellingsen - Bounty
2005 (Perfect Pop)

Wobbler - Hinterland
2005 (The Laser's Edge)

The National Bank - The National Bank
2004 (Universal Music, A:Larm Music))

Ost & Kjex - Eaten Back To Life EP
2004 (Planet Noise Norway)

Motif - Motif
2004 (Aim Records)

Petter Wettre- Hallmark Sessions
2004 (Household Records)

Iro Haarla- Northbound
2004 (ECM)

Trondheim Jazz Orchestra With Chick Corea
2004 (MNJ Records/Musikklosen)

Lars Horntveth – Pooka
2004 (Smalltown Supersound)

Susanna & The Magical Orchestra – List of lights and bouys
2004 (Rune Grammofon)

Hanne Hukkelberg – Little things
2004 (Propeller Recordings)

Hilde Marie Kjersem TUB Quartet – Red Shoes Diary
2004 (Curling Legs)

Jacob Young – Evening Falls
2004 (ECM)

Don't stop the train
2004 (Allegro)

Sir Haakon and the Popular Musicians - What Is To Come...?
2004 (Perfect Pop)

White Willow - Storm Season
2004 (The Laser's Edge)

Tellusalie - Tell Us A Lie EP
2003 (Forward Records)

Cato Salsa Experience – New Album
2003 (Emperor Norton)

Askil Holm – Daydream Receiver
2003 (Universal)

Turbonegro – Scandinavian Leather
2003 (Burning Heart)

Friko – Burglar Ballads
2003 (C+C Records)

Ulver – 1st Decade In The Machines
2003 (Jester)

Martin Horntveth - Skull EP
2003 (Smalltown Supersound)

Serena Maneesh – Fixxations
2002 (Honey Milk)

Realones – Bratislava EP
2002 (New Records)

Martin Horntveth – Parc Evil 001 7”
2002 (Parc Evil)

Martin Horntveth - Fast Motion EP
2002 (Smalltown Supersound)

The Margarets – What kept you?
2002 (Universal)

Motorpsycho – It’s a love cult
2002 (Sony Music Norway)

Funkstörung – Viceversa
2001 (!K7 Records)

Shining - Where the ragged people go
2001 (Bp)

Rotoscope - Great Curves
2001 (Jester Records)

Motorpsycho - Phanerothyme
2001 (Sony Music Norway)

Euroboys - Getting out of nowhere
2001 (Virgin Records Norway)

Spunk - Filtered through friends
2001 (Rune Grammofon)

Whipping Post - Live at Norwegian Wood 2000
2001 (Glitterhouse Records)

Cloroform - Scrawl
2001 (Kaaaa)

Home Groan - Addicted
2001 (Me)

Petter Wettre Trio - The mystery unfold
2001 (Bp)

Solveig Slettahjel - Slow Motion Orchestra
2001 (Curling Legs)

Anne Grete Preus - Alfabet
2001 (Warner Music Norway)

Asgeir - Sjefen over alle sjefer
2001 (Sony Music Norway)

D'Sound - Talkin' talk
2001 (Virgin Records Norway)

Klovner i kamp - Tykt og tynt ep
2001 (city connection)

Østenfor Sol - Troillspell
2001 (Major Studio)

Haakon Ellingsen - Minstrel
2001 (Perfect Pop)

Briskeby - Jeans for onassis
2000 (Universal Music Norway)

White Willow - Sacrament
2000 (Lasers’s Edge)

Perleporten - Perleporten
2000 Emi Norsk A/S

Cato Salsa Experience - A good tip for a good time
2000 (Garralda Records)

Sternklang - Neolounge
2000 (Beatservice)

Stella Polaris - Tristan og isolde
2000 (Stella Polaris)

Joner&Joner&Joner&Joner - Bongofeber
2000 (Broiler Farm)

Ricochets - Slo-Mo Suicide
2000 (Music Network)

Home Groan - Fish
2000 (Me)

Ra - Live at blå
2000 (Ra)

Cloroform - Do the crawl
2000 (Bp)

Nansy - I can't sleep ep 2000 (So happy inc.)

Big Bang - Girl in Oslo ep
2000 (Warner Music Norway)

Big Bang - Clouds rolling by
2000 (Warner Music Norway)

Anneli Drecker - Tundra
2000 (Emi Norsk A/S)

Malignant Eternal - Alarm
1999 (Napalm Records)

Home Groan - Astrodome
1999 (Me)

Big Bang - Electric Psalmbook
1999 (Warner Music Norway)

Beatroute - Anonymous
1999 (Dbut Records)

The Beatbandits - I got rhythm
1999 (HugRec)

King Midas - Scandinavia
1999 (..)

Østenfor Sol - Syng dovre
1998 (Major Studio)

Record Label:

Ninja Tune/Universal Music