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Each of the album’s four longform entries evolves over carefully plotted movements, the tracks’ technicolour threads dreamily unspooling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe band, led by Lars Horntveth and his compositions, took a direct approach to the creation of “Pyramid”. Whereas “Starfire” saw them take the idea of a traditional studio record to extremity, with different members dipping in and out of the booth to write, record and experiment over two years, the process behind “Pyramid” was almost the polar opposite: it took just two weeks. Both records were driven by the same curious, experimental spirit, but the processes were very different. Retreating to a secluded woodland studio in neighbouring Sweden, they bunkered into the studio for 12 hour days. “The most important thing is that we didn’t want to over-analyze every musical idea” says co-founder and drummer Martin Horntveth. “We wanted to follow the first and original idea and keep the freshness.” For a band which has never settled on any one sound or style, the continuity lies in their constant willingness to evolve, experiment and improvise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Pyramid” is Jaga Jazzist’s first self-produced album (most of their records being produced by close collaborator Jørgen Træen) and it meant a change in the way they operate. On the one hand, there were lots of different voices jostling to be heard. On the other, they didn’t have an independent figure to make a call on whether something was a good idea. “It was hard but felt natural to do ourselves, as five of us are producers and make records for a living,” Martin says. The result is an album that feels more collaborative than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhilst they wouldn’t describe “Pyramid” as a concept album, the band see the track titles as a conceptual starting point from which the listener can construct whatever story flows out of the songs. The album title refers to the building blocks which make up a pyramid, and how each of the four tracks – and their constituent parts – fit together. ‘Tomita’ is a nod to Japanese composer and synth player Isao Tomita, and ‘The Shrine’ alludes to Fela Kuti’s legendary Lagos venue. 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Stream ‘The Shrine (Petter Eldh Remix)’ now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cast of friends and extended family rework compositions from Jaga Jazzist’s ninth studio album “Pyramid” (2020), a record that saw the legendary Norwegian eight-piece take a deep dive into post-rock, jazz and psychedelia influences. Cosmic disco royalty Lindstrøm, Prins Thomas and OKIOK bring the club-ready heat. Meanwhile, André Bratten (Smalltown Supersound), OKR of Once And Future Band, Ian Chang (City Slang), Paul Bender (Hiatus Kaiyote) and Petter Eldh veer off to the left into more experimental territory with stunning results. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwedish-born and Berlin-based, Petter is an extraordinary bassist and producer who has played and collaborated with Jameszoo, Christian Lillinger, Beatrice Dillon, Kit Downes as well as his own Koma Saxo quintet. Most recently he released “Projekt Drums Vol.1” via Edition Records.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I first heard Jaga at the Roskilde Festival back in the early 2000s,” explains Petter Eldh. “The gig was an early afternoon slot so my mind hadn’t been chemically\/organically altered yet. I was knocked to the ground! Sensory overload! Their music had a mind-altering ability on its own. Exhilarating! Martin and Lars are a big inspiration in my own endeavours in mixing electronic soundscapes and acoustic instruments. To sit with all the stems from ‘Pyramid’ was like walking around in the most imaginative and fun theme park. Hopefully, someone will experience that good old sensory overload listening to my take on Jaga!”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, as bands and musicians are gearing up to get back on the road, Jaga Jazzist are planning to leave Earth altogether in a groundbreaking live stream on 7th December at 8pm CET. Directed by Haakon Mathisen (VIERLIVE), it promises to be an extraordinary cinematic live performance, live streamed from inside the heart of a throttling spaceship (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vier.live\/act\/jaga-jazzist-leaving-earth\" style=\"text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003ehttps:\/\/vier.live\/act\/jaga-jazzist-leaving-earth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Pyramid Remix” is released digitally on 5th November via Brainfeeder. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e \r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eJaga 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eLars 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHaving 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. 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A jazz band\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eb. A rock band\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ec. A progressive rock band\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ed. A hip-hop group\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ee. A rap group\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ef. A reggae group\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eg. A polka band\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eh. A comedy band\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ei. An electronica group\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ej. A classical ensemble\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ek. A choral ensemble\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003el. All of the above\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003em. None of the above\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe answer for any who have heard the group's entire discography is, indeed, both (l) and (m) because in its two decades of existence - across five studio albums, one live album, five EPs (CD and vinyl), one live DVD and now this box set - Jaga has, at one time or another, been all of these things and yet at the end of the day is really none of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIt's hard to believe that the Norwegian 8-piece band (founded on the Horntveth triumvirate - Lars, Martin and Line) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, in 2014. Not that there aren't other groups that have lasted as long, but look for a group whose primary composer was just 14 when the whole thing began, find a band where five out of its eight current members were there when everything started in 1994, and scope out one that has managed to remain as stylistically enigmatic and impossible to categorise as... well, you get the idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAnd so we thought it fitting to mark the band's 20th year with a unique, limited edition vinyl box set featuring a special reissue of the landmark album 'A Livingroom Hush' (2004) with 4 previously unreleased demo cuts from those recording sessions as bonus digital downloads. Also in the box: 2 crisp 12\"s featuring exclusive reworks based on elements from the album \u003cem\u003eJaga Jazzist Live with Britten Sinfonia\u003c\/em\u003e from a stellar cast of remixers… Warp Records stalwart Clark; breakbeat scientist Machinedrum; Brainfeeder's sonic dreamweaver Teebs; Mellowdrone founder Jonathan Bates aka Big Black Delta; LA-based composer, orchestrator, conductor, multi-instrumentalist and producer Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (\u003cem\u003eCosmogramma\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eYou're Dead\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSuite For Ma Dukes\u003c\/em\u003e, Build An Ark); Werkdiscs' rising star Moiré; Hoya:Hoya co-founder Illum Sphere; and Stockholm's Invader Ace.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eExtended sleeve notes by John Kelman (All About Jazz) come in a beautiful 24 page booklet with archive photography documenting the rise and rise of this iconic collective.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eJaga Jazzist are on tour across Europe in November and December:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e26\/11 @ \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.doornroosje.nl\/nieuws#220\"\u003eDoornroosje\u003c\/a\u003e, Nijmegen - 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It's a live album, and when are those ever very exciting? But just remember that they really can be, and trust us when we say that this one really, truly is. Like a modern day \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLive at Leeds\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, like the benevolent, neon twin of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLive Evil\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatune.net\/artist\/jaga-jazzist\"\u003eJaga Jazzist\u003c\/a\u003e's wondrous new record is just that; a brilliant album on its own terms. It's a psychedelic \u003cstrong\u003eBond\u003c\/strong\u003e soundtrack twisting and turning from the stage, propelling the listener forward on an epic emotional voyage. At times it seems to explode from the speakers in pure, exuberant colour, making you wonder if you've recently developed synesthesia. It moves with unrestrained ease from quiet reflection to cinematic, widescreen thunder, from \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSound of Music\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e pastoral joy to pulsing jazz chase sequences… and it makes you wonder why more of the music you hear isn't quite so completely affecting.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatune.net\/artist\/jaga-jazzist\"\u003eJaga Jazzist\u003c\/a\u003e had long wanted to work with an orchestra, and when the British radio DJ \u003cstrong\u003eFiona Talkington\u003c\/strong\u003e introduced them to the \u003cstrong\u003eBritten Sinfonia\u003c\/strong\u003e, they leapt at the chance to collaborate. The \u003cstrong\u003eBarbican's Chris Sharp\u003c\/strong\u003e promised to stage the results, and the team set about writing the work from scratch. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatune.net\/artist\/jaga-jazzist\"\u003eJaga\u003c\/a\u003e wanted to make each musician feel like a central part of the performance, and this philosophy paid off in full. The music is full of exuberance and passion, each player becoming an equal part of a startlingly purposeful hive-mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatune.net\/artist\/jaga-jazzist\"\u003eJaga\u003c\/a\u003e have always taken a rigorous approach to their art, and they wanted to use the opportunity afforded by the album to push their own creativity forward. As such, they broke new ground personally. \u003cem\u003e\"Mathias' trumpet solo on 'Bananfluer Overalt' is probably my favourite moment on the album,\"\u003c\/em\u003e says the group's writer and creative driving force \u003cstrong\u003eLars Horntveth\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cem\u003e\"He really shines here and has the space and time to improvise in a way he hasn't been able to do before with \u003cstrong\u003eJaga\u003c\/strong\u003e alone.\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThat says a lot about this brilliant, unique record. It's not often that an album comes along that offers so much. Its quieter moments could equal \u003cstrong\u003eShostakovich\u003c\/strong\u003e's explorations of mortality, its full throttle thrusts match the visceral thrill of any young guitar band. 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With an increase in the use of electronics and the guitar work of Marcus Forsgren given new prominence, it’s probably the least straightforwardly “jazz” of their records. Instead, all the elements which have made them such an important band—the way their technical chops combine with the kind of mutual sympathy which comes from growing up together—are here melded into an utterly unique sound on what could turn out to be the group’s crowning achievement.\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCentering around the Horntveth siblings (Lars, Martin and Line) the eight piece band \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/ninjatune.net\/artist\/jaga-jazzist#.VRVGMjusUrM\"\u003eJaga\u003c\/a\u003e formed in 1994, when Lars was still only fourteen. In their two decades of existence they've released five studio albums, one live album, five EPs (CD and vinyl), one live DVD and now a box set. Five of those eight original members are still in the group and all this has contributed to the group’s deep mutual understanding. Add in a guest like Leon Dewan, who plays his own Swarmatron on \"Shinkansen\" and Lars’ increasing use of a Pocket Piano synth as a tool for composition and you get the basis of a more hard-edged, electronic sound, perfectly melded with live musicianship.  \r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStarfire\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautiful, visceral, utterly exhilarating piece of work that keeps spiralling up and away, structurally complex, musically rigorous, but without ever losing touch with a certain earthy sensuality and human sympathy. 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