jazz

double vinyl release, cut at 45rpm.

new album from norwegian jazz trio of håkon kornstad, frode haltli and mats eilertsen.

tortusa takes the listener on an emotional journey.

double vinyl in gatefold sleeve.

the fourth album fom maria kannegaard trio on double vinyl, housed in a gatefold sleeve.

second solo album from norwegian saxophonist harald lassen.

perhaps megalodon collective’s description of themselves is the most straightforward ... “sixty feet of prehistoric terror”.
yet that doesn’t quite capture what this norwegian grammy-nominated septet unleashes upon the world. their compositions and improvisations build with slow majesty and release a fiery rain of sonic chaos. contrapuntal insanity creates illusions of order, while high urgency solos and lizard rhythms create illusions of disorder. they seamlessly leap from sounding like the mingus dynasty band trapped on a star cruiser with controls set for the heart of the sun to the pit orchestra from hell performing the soundtrack to a keystone cops movie directed by quentin tarantino.

eivind aarset’s first solo album. one of the most iconic albums of the 90’s jazz boom! he performs all guitars: straight, treated, e-bowed, looped, ugly and pretty. aarset is also responsible for all compositions, arrangements, recording, programming, sampling and bass.

with a wall-to-wall 21st century freshness, light years past any concept of vogue, or any linear genre lines, norwegian quartet rohey deliver music that bristles with energy and honesty, that grooves with the best funk, that has deep soul roots while keeping an eye on the broad expanse of a golden future. lead vocalist rohey taalah brings all the emotional complexity you would expect of a classic jazz or soul singer (and can withstand comparison with any with ease). ivan blomqvist s keys play a dual role of laying down old school sonics, while bringing a retrofuturistic hyper-urban tone (akin to british idm), while kristian b. jacobsen (bass) and henrik lødøen (drums) create a jazz-soul-funk hybrid rhythm section that ducks and weaves with supreme artfulness.
rohey have toured extensively throughout scandinavia, taking in just about every major jazz festival along the way. with the release of “a million things” on jazzland recordings in early 2017, their path can be expected to take them ever further: music this good can t be kept secret for long. “a million things” performs a balancing act that most pop artists have forgotten in these days of studio micro-editing: how to write and play a song with full and sincere conviction, while enjoying an artful expressiveness without making things unnecessarily difficult for the audience. this has been borne out by their nomination for best single at the scandinavian soul awards in 2015.

20th anniversary reissue of bugge wesseltoft’s first album and jazzland’s first release. “new conceptions of jazz” has already become a classic! this album also won bugge wesseltoft a norwegian grammy.
double 12 inch vinyl cut at 45rpm, housed in a gatefold sleeve.

after a string of excellent records on planet noise, dialect recordings, crosstown rebels and punkt, ost & kjex (cheese & biscuit) are back in the land of cheese for another mighty slice of vinylicious musical delights! we felt >milano model< (original mix on dial009) was so special it deserved the remix treatment, so we had a little chat with our norwegian friends and we agreed upon two names: rob mello & mungolian jet set. rob s superb career has seen him record quite a few dancefloor burners on such labels as classic, crosstown rebels, azuli, 20:20, city rocker, rekids and now on his own disco 45 imprint. composed of paul >strangefruit< nyhus, knut saevik, reidar skar and sometimes featuring the knights of jumbumla and many other colourful musicians of great talent, mungolian jet set have already cause quite a stir with their amazing remixes of kreeps, lindstrom, lsb, bebel gilberto and their own productions on jazzland records