Full 10-Piece Band Out of Norway - It's... JAGA JAZZIST Live in Ireland this June

"This exhilarating ensemble pull off the great trick of keeping the crowds feet moving while playing music that happily goes all over the shop"
**** THE GUARDIAN

Jaga Jazzist won more than a few new fans when they played their Heineken Green Energy Festival show at The Village in 2003 and went on to do the same as festivals like Sonar in Barcelona that summer.

The 10-strong collective celebrated their tenth anniversary last year and now’s your chance to catch them when they return to Ireland this June, complete with brand new album, “What We Must”.

- Full 10-Piece Band Out of Norway
JAGA JAZZIST
Live in Ireland This June...
Friday, June 10th at Spring & Airbrake, BELFAST.
Saturday, June 11th at The Village, DUBLIN.

Tickets for all dates are on-sale now from Ticketmaster and usual outlets.
Tickets for The Village are also available from The WaV Tickbox at Whelans.
www.jagajazzist.com

The new Jaga Jazzist album, "What We Must" is released on Ninja Tune on Friday, April 29th.

- The band:
Mathias Eick – Trumpet, upright bass, keyboards + vibraphone
Harald Frøland – Guitars + effects
Even Ormestad – Bass + keyboards
Andreas Mjøs – Vibraphone, guitars, drums + electronics
Line Horntveth – Tuba + percussion
Lars Horntveth – Tenor sax, bass-clarinet, guitars + keyboards
Andreas Schei – Keyboards
Ketil Einarsen – Flutes, Wind Controler, percussion + keyboards
Lars Wabø - Trombone + percussion
Annnnd... Martin Horntveth – Drums + drum-machines

Produced by Kåre Chr. Vestrheim and Marcus Schmickler, “What We Must” will be released through SmalltownSupersound/ Sonet/Universal Music in Norway and by Smalltown Supersound/Ninja Tune in the rest of the world.

It’s already been described as a mastodon of an album. A masterpiece. And by far the best Jaga Jazzist have ever done.

The sound is closer to their live sound than ever before, and you can hear influences from as different musical styles as British shoegazer pop and 70`s prog rock.

It’s released in Ireland on Friday, April 29th (distribution by Vital). There will also be a beautiful LP version available.
All versions are packaged by Kim Hiorthøy's wonderful drawings and design.

- Jaga Jazzist has become something of a musical phenomenon in Norway since they started over 10 years ago. Not only is this 10 piece 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.

Jaga make the vast majority of live acts seem creatively stagnant and lethargic in comparison.
Ever since their beginnings, Jaga have been a band who search for something sonically different, a quest that’s been going on for over a decade now.

Jaga’s live show was voted as the sixth best gig of the year in the Observer Music Monthly in 2003, behind Radiohead’s legendary Glastonbury performance but before Bob Dylan at the Shepherds Bush Empire. This extensive tour is to promote ‘What We Must’, which really is a breakthrough moment for the group.

After heavily touring, the time came for the next chapter in the Jaga Jazzist history. Having months spent on writing new material, the band ripped it all up, went into an isolated studio out in the Norwegian woods and recorded the demo now known as the Spydeberg Session. Put down in one take in one day, creating music that was closer to their live sound than ever before. The band began to whisper about their rock album.

After testing the new material on the road, they returned to the studio and used the Spydeberg Session as the basis of the record which became ‘What We Must’, perhaps the most radical development so far in their career.

- HISTORY:
Jaga Jazzist started out in Tonsberg (a small town outside Oslo) in 1994 at which time Lars Horntveth (the main songwriter in Jaga) was only 14 years old! In 2001 they released their debut album “A Livingroom Hush” on Warner in Scandinavia to massive critical acclaim and great sales (the album sold over 20,000 copies in Norway alone).

The band then signed a deal for the rest of the world through Oslo`s Smalltown Supersound. Throughout 2002 the band shocked fans and critics alike with their blistering live shows and the buzz resulted in sold out dates all over Europe and the band soon came to the attention of Ninja Tune who did a license/collaboration deal with Smalltown Supersound.

At the same time as their debut album gained more and more international success, Jaga recorded the follow-up titled “The Stix”.

As with their first album this was produced by Norwegian superproducer Jørgen Træen the man behind Duper Studios in Bergen (home of Røyksopp, Kings of Convenience, Sondre Lerche et.al.) but this time Jaga wanted to push their musical limits even further and really create a sound they could genuinely call “Jaga Jazzist “.

The proof of their efforts produced the acclaimed 2003 album “The Stix”, the perfect balance between (hu)man and machine it never looses the organic nature of a live 10 piece. Genuinely original music.


- TICKETS:
Tickets for their show at Spring & Airbrake, Belfast are 13.50 Stg (inc. booking fee) from Ticketmaster and usual outlets nationwide.
Doors: 9.00pm. Over 18s, ID Essential.

Tickets for The Village are 16 euro (inc. booking fee) and are on sale now from Road, Soundcellar, Ticketmaster, The WaV Ticketbox at Whelans and usual outlets nationwide.

Book online at www.ticketmaster.ie. For telephone bookings, please call the 24 Hour Ticketmaster credit card line on 0818 719 300 (R.O.I.) and 0870 2434455 (N. Ireland).

Tickets purchased by telephone and online are subject to a Ticketmaster service charge of 12.5% to max 5.95 euro per ticket. Agents 2 euro