LINDSTRØM: THE NEW YORK TIMES LIVE REVIEW
January 31, 2009Comments Off
Lindstrom is on a short US tour these days and played in New York yesterday. You can read The New York Time`s verdict http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/31/arts/music/31lind.html?_r=1&ref=music here.
LARS HORNTVETH: 4 OUT OF 5 IN GUARDIAN
January 30, 2009Comments Off
“Reeds player Lars Horntveth was one of the brains behind Jaga Jazzist, the clubby, noisy mini-big band who gave an extra jolt to the already buzzing Norwegian scene several years ago. His new album, Kaleidoscopic, is more self-consciously grown-up, and, by its very nature, poses several interesting challenges. For a start, it is a continuous 37-minute piece for orchestra – a one-track CD that bucks the trend for shuffle-listening. Like a musical interpretation of Saul Steinberg’s single-line installations, it delineates a rambling, picaresque fantasy that moves steadily through different moods and timbres. There are moments best described as classy post-rock; others are minimalist or even “light classical”. There are portamento-heavy ambient strings, with echoes of Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Bernard Herrmann-like theme developments. It’s no magnum opus, but what Kaleidoscopic lacks in single-minded intensity is balanced by its generous evocation of an expansive, continuous panorama of textures and motifs, given human scale by Horntveth’s agreeably gruff bass clarinet.” (John L. Walters, The Guardian)
Mats and Thurston on US mini tour
January 27, 2009Comments Off
Thurston Moore and Mats Gustafsson has a mini-tour coming up in US this week. Check it out here:
Jan 29 Florence VFW 18 Meadow st Florence MA with Magik Markers + Nace/Pak/Noise Nomads 8pm
Jan 30 Club Rehab 25 Ave B NYC with Gene Moore + White Out with Samara Lubelski 8pm
Jan 31 Internatinoal House 3701 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, PA 8pm
Feb 1 Glasslands Brooklyn, NY with John Olson/Okkyung Lee/C. Spencer Yeh trio + Sunburned Hand of the Gene, Tovah D-day 9pm
Feb 2 Middle East Upstairs, Boston, MA with Sickness + Ashley Paul + Perespirit
LINDSTRØM: NORWEGIAN GRAMMY AWARD
January 27, 2009Comments Off
We congratulate Lindstrøm with the Norwegian Grammy Award for best electronic album of 2008 with his “Where You Go I Go Too”
LARS HORNTVETH: KALEIDOSCOPIC AVAILABLE FROM ITUNES AND SUPERSTORE
January 27, 2009Comments Off
Lars Horntveth`s great “Kaleidoscopic” is now available from Itunes and other downloadstores, as well as from our own Superstore.
Offonoff European tour
January 23, 2009Comments Off
Check them out, you won`t regret!
03/02 – Sala Monasterio, Arco Y Flecha, Barcelona, ES
04/02 – Grrrnd Zero, Lyon, France
05/02 – Instants Chavires, Paris, France
06/02 – Penn Ar Jazz, Brest, France
07/02 – Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
08/02 – Jazzkeller, Hofheim, Germany
09/02 – Recyclart, Brussels, Belgia
10/02 – Cave 12 at KAB, Geneve, Switzerland
11/02 – Muziekpodium Paradox, Tilburg, Holland
LINDSTRØM: COSMIC DISCO FEATURE IN GUARDIAN
January 23, 2009Comments Off
Check out the cosmic disco feature in todays The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jan/23/cosmic-disco-dj-internet here.
LARS HORNTVETH: 5 OUT OF 5 IN DMC UPDATE MAGAZINE
January 9, 2009Comments Off
Lars Horntveth is one half of Jaga Jazzist, and his second album ‘Kaleidoscopic’ was recorded with most of the Latvian National Orchestra. If you liked Johann Johannsson’s outstanding ‘Fordlandia’ album towards the end of last year you’ll definitely go for this, though on this occasion it’s one, through-composed track that clearly gains intensity through its 37 minute span, as Horntveth tightens the screw. Best listened to in a quiet room to appreciate the softer textures, it hardly has any beats – but when percussion is introduced there is a pretty strong sense of rhythm. Even more effective are the sweeping unison string themes that bring extra warmth to the cool exterior. When listening to this you could almost be watching the Northern Lights, as textures dance and shimmer – and for staying in music in the January chill, it’s a piece that takes some beating. 5/5 Ben Hogwood
The Thing: box set 4 stars review in Uncut
January 5, 2009Comments Off
Spirited free jazz, with obligatory indie covers. ****
Compromising saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, double-bass player Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, there is no doubting the Scandinavian-ness of The Thing. However, as this three album-plus-DVD box (which stretches back to their eponymous 2000 debut) attests, the band channel the spirit of free jazz as blown by the late Albert Ayler, John Coltrane and Don Cherry like no other combo. Moreover, on their version of To Bring You My Love in which they convert the PJ Harvey original into a confrontational procession of pocket trumpet and barritone sax, they show that while the original jazzmen are dead, their free spirit rages on in unlikely places (David Stubbs, UNCUT MAGAZINE)
LINDSTRØM: MOJO LP REVIEW
January 5, 2009Comments Off
“The Norwegian producer and remixer`s warmly received 2008 debut full-lengther, newly re-edited for vinyl. The Scando-Balearic title track appears in two segments, both pulsing, fertile electronic sweeps that seem to reveal the curvature of the Earth. The remaining tracks are similarly mountain-high, with the steely disco of Grand Ideas sustaining tension and The Long Way Home creating a lush Jam & Lewis-meets-Vangelis dance sound best enjoyed sitting down” (Mojo Magazine)
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