Artist: Jaga Jazzist
Title: One-Armed Bandit
Label: Universal
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 198kbit av.
Time: 00:53:32
Size: 81.94 mb
Rip Date: 2010-01-25
Str Date: 2010-01-25
01. The Thing Introduces... 0:23
02. One-Armed Bandit 7:07
03. Bananfluer Overalt 6:16
04. V,Spektral 7:03
05. Toccata 9:10
06. Prognissekongen 4:33
07. Book Of Glass 6:49
08. Music! Dance! Drama! 5:31
09. Touch Of Evil 6:40
Release Notes:
According to Jaga Jazzist mainman Lars Horntveth, the ten members of
his Wu-Tang-like jazz clan have left their mark on some 300 different
records, producing, arranging and playing on albums by Adjßgas, Susanna
and the Magical Orchestra and assorted Scandinavian acts. ItÆs further
proof, if any were needed, that these are musicians whose ambidextrous
talent lets them change direction at the drop of a hat, something
theyÆve done once again on their latest thriller, One-Armed Bandit.
Led by Lars, Martin and Line Horntveth, this Norwegian ensemble are
what all modern forward-thinking bands should aspire to û a group who
donÆt so much cut-and-shut man and machine (a la most indie-dance
bands) as they do reconcile the two as a seamless, super-evolved,
silver-plated being. Jaga Jazzist have been cutting through this fjord
for 15 years now, moving from avant-jazz and lush post-club music to
dazzling, horn-blasted future rock, and they show no signs of standing
still.
Those worlds theyÆve already visited û free-jazz, drumÆnÆbass, rock,
electro û all pop up on One-Armed Bandit, but so do some mightily
unexpected ones. Paying as much mind to jazz intellects as they do our
collective booty, Jaga Jazzist have kicked out the jams on this fifth
album, hitting a groovily propulsive, freaky, fun-loving patch of form
by flying the ômothership,ö as Lars once called the band, to the
farthest reaches of electronic jazz-rock.
Tweaked with a heavy dose of prog, especially the becloaked OTT style
of Zappa and Yes, this is properly cosmic stuff, bringing to the table
FX-laden jams, afrobeat, Wagner-inspired bombast, baroque-inflected
deep-funk and the knowing, horn-y sound of 1960s spy films, all of this
intermingled with JagaÆs terrific fusion of breaks, synths, killer horn
lines and taut, muscular rhythms. Few records in 2010 will contain
songs quite so mind-bogglingly broad, playful, beguilingly pretty and
intense as these slowly unfurling ensemble pieces.
Among the gems are the mathematical, angular post-rock of
Prognissekongen and Music! Dance! Drama!, the latter doing what it says
on the tin as it shifts between celestial electronics, sweeping horns
and old-school car chase music rendered for an apocalyptic future.
Tocatta is a fantastical, pulsing piece with glassy, repetitive
melodies that acknowledges Steve Reich, while album closer Touch of
Evil gallops along madly like a kind of ornate version of rave with
touches of metal and Middle Eastern music. ItÆs difficult to imagine
where on Earth they could go after this.
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