27.05.2009 : STIAN WESTERHUS GOES SOLO ON RUNE GRAMMOFON/TLRC Solo guitar recording from one of Norway´s hardest working young improvisors, currently a member of Jaga Jazzist, Puma, Monolithic and more. During the last few years he has put more energy into challenging the electric guitar alone on stage. Blessed with little or no respect for the instrument his performances balance raw expressiveness, virtuousity and melodic instinct with his Norwegian heritage and growing up listening to Slayer. Mastered by Helge Sten, aka Deathprod. STIAN WESTERHUS GALORE Album out now! Vinyl only, Gatefold cover with 16 page art booklet

05.05.2009 : MIXING THE ALBUM We're just back from Chicago were we've mixed the new JJ album with John McEntire (Tortoise, Stereolab, Teenage Fanclub.) We've been mixing at the great Soma Studios and we are very satisfied with the result. You can see a lot of photos from the trip in the PICTURES section

03.04.2009 : ALBUM + ØYA + MOLDE Hi all, We just wanted to give everyone a little insight into what has been happening in the Jaga camp over the last few months. As you all know, Jaga has been barely sighted in the last few years, this has seen all of our members releasing records with other projects here and abroad and everyone touring with a variety of musical identities in too many countries to mention. Late last year however, we all got together armed with a plethora of different ideas in a studio in Sweden to begin the recording of the next, as yet untitled Jaga Jazzist full length release. However, a couple of months ago, just as things were going perfectly according to plan, and the recording was almost finished, our producer fell ill, which through our plans into a minor crisis. Although this was a setback for us, it was not the end. As recently as the last few weeks, we have been lucky enough to find a way of finishing the end product and we'll be back in the studio in the next couple of weeks to do the mixing and putting the finishing touches to this record. As you may or may not be aware, we have announced two major Norwegian Concerts to showcase this new album. These will take place this summer at two of our favourite festivals, Moldejazz and Øya Festival. We expect the album to be released early this autumn. Extensive touring next year of Norway and Europe is planned to support this album release and this is something we are all very excited about, and we look forward to seeing you all out there this summer and beyond! Best, JJ

21.02.2009 : THE WINNER IS MATHIAS EICK!!!!! Mathias just won the StatoilHydro grant! 800000 NOK (a lot!!!) This is the prize that helped the Norwegian artist, Ida Maria with international success. Congratulations! Read more HERE!

20.01.2009 : MARTIN HAGFORS ALBUM OUT NOW! Martin Hagfors' debut album "Men And Flies" is also Lars Horntveth's debut as a producer. In Martin's own words: "Men And Flies The idea behind the album, the man behind the fly so to speak, was for me to change horses, try riding side-saddle or maybe just shaking my fear of horses.... actually this music has nothing to do with horses but it has a lot to do with Lars Horntveth. Lars is making his debut as a producer besides dissecting and arranging the music. In the process we wanted to cross paths with a waist high pile of vinyl records that included Colin Blunstone, Bergen White, Dr John, Curtis Mayfield, Alice Coltrane, and Allan Toussaint all found floating around my living room floor the color of red wine on one of our first brain-storming cell assassination sessions." Read more and listen to the music at www.martinhagfors.com

06.01.2009 : AND THE NOMINEES ARE... Jaga Jazzist musicians are involved in seven of the albums nominated for the Norwegian Grammy, Spellemannprisen 2009. Mathias Eick - The Door (Jazz) Lars Horntveth - Kaleidoscopic (Open Class) Thom Hell - God If I Saw Her Now (Male Artist, Pop composer & Music Video) Ingrid Olava - Juliet's Wishes (Female Artist, Best New Artist & Pop Composer) Marit Larsen - The Chase (Female Artist & Hit Of The Year) Maria Mena - Cause And Effect (Female Artist & Music Video) Lester - This Village (Pop)

12.09.2008 : MESSAGE FROM LARS "Hi. My new record, Kaleidoscopic, is for sale in Norway now. It will be released in the rest of the world in January. But for those who wish to listen to it now, it is possible to download it on itunes. The album consists of one song (37 min), recorded in Riga, Latvia, with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. The album is produced by Jørgen Træen and myself. I played the music live with the Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra at the Øya Festival in Oslo in August. I hope to do more conserts next year in Norway and abroad. For those interested in Jaga Jazzist, I'm glad to tell you that we are now rehearsing like mad men every week. We will record the new album in December and hopefully release it next fall. Best wishes, Lars" LISTEN TO A COUPLE OF EXCERPTS HERE!

05.09.2008 : HIMMELBLÅ MUSIKK AV MARTIN HORNTVETH Martin Horntveth har laget musikk til den nye NRK storsatsningen "Himmelblå" som starter søndag 07. september klokka 20.05 på NRK1. SE EPISODENE HER Du kan høre mer Himmelblå musikk her: www.myspace.com/martinhorntvethcomposer HIMMELBLÅ HJEMMESIDE

13.06.2008 : WE'RE BACK!! Hi everyone! for the last two years we've all been busy playing shows around the world with other bands, but finally we've gathered to work together again. This week we've been rehearsing in a beautiful place in Sweden called Fredros. This is the first step towards a new album! Check out PICTURES from the Fredros Session 2008.

23.05.2008 : LARS HORNTVETH: SPECIAL APPEARANCE AT THE ØYA FESTIVAL Lars Horntveth’s new album Kaleidoscopic has been ready since last October. Now it has been decided that it will be released during this year’s Øya festival in August, at which Horntveth will perform Kaleidoscopic with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra (KORK) Read more HERE

06.05.2008 : MATHIAS EICK SOLO DEBUT ON ECM Mathias Eick - The Door (ECM) 'The Door' is his first leader album and a fine showcase for his writing and his musicianship - his exceptional trumpet playing, but also his multi-instrumentalism: he's heard here also on guitar and vibraphone. As a trumpeter Eick has absorbed many influences - he cites Miles, Clifford Brown, Kenny Wheeler, Tomasz Stanko, Arve Henriksen and Nils Petter Molvær as inspirations - and shaped his own language, which incorporates the history of the modern trumpet. Eick has assembled a top flight band for 'The Door'. Pianist Jon Balke is in tremendous form, always finding something fresh to intonate, consistently surprising and imaginative both on acoustic piano and Fender Rhodes. Balke's ECM history goes back 30 years, and recent CDs with the Magnetic North Orchestra and his solo 'Book of Velocities' have been acclaimed. Drummer Audun Kleive also has deep ECM roots - with Terje Rypdal's 'Chasers', Charles Lloyd's touring quartet and with Marilyn Mazur. He works well with bassist Audun Erlien, known to ECM aficionados for Molvaer's 'Solid Ether'. Guest Stian Carstensen, previously on ECM playing accordion on Trygve Seim's 'Different Rivers', is one of very few jazz artists to explore the potential of the pedal steel guitar, and also has his own fan base, largely from his popular band Farmers Market. Read more HERE

06.05.2008 : TNB VIDEO WITH MICHAEL JACKSON'S NORWEGIAN FRIEND Check out the brand new The National Bank video HOME video starring Michael Jackson's Norwegian friend Omer Bhatti aka O-Bee. A FANTASTIC DANCER AND PERFORMER! The video is directed by Kaveh Tehrani

25.03.2008 : THE NATIONAL BANK LIVE ON FABCHANNEL.COM Check out The National Bank live from Paradiso, Amsterdam 26th of March 20.00 (Amsterdam Time) PRESS HERE

06.02.2008 : COME ON OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE OUT NOW! The new album from The National Bank is out now in Norway. Du kan nå forhåndsbestille det nye TNB albumet, Come On Over To The Other Side HER! Check out Universal Music in France + Germany for more info. Also check out www.alarmmusic.dk in Denmark

07.11.2007 : KILLL TOUR 2007 For the first time KILLL will do a tour in Europe. Check out LIVE section for dates and website HERE The band: Espen Hangård - guitar & vocals, Martin Horntveth - electronic drums, effects & vocals, Are Mokkelbost - synth, bass, sampler, effects & vocals, Erlend Mokkelbost - guitar, Kyrre Heldal Karlsen - lights. «(...) The best noise act in Oslo, and possibly the best live show I’ve ever seen, is called Kill. The quartet haven’t released any records because the act is a four-part side project, featuring members of Jaga Jazzist, Single Unit, JR Ewing, and No Place to Hide, all of them pedigreed at some point in hardcore and trash metal type acts. (Pitchfork Media - Nick Sylvester)

12.09.2007 : REMEMBER THIS??? AIRBORNE VIDEO 2001

01.09.2007 : FIRST TNB LIVE SHOWS OUTSIDE NORWAY The National Bank will perform a few exclusice shows in Europe this October. They are recording the new album this September so you might get the chance to hear some new material as well. Check out the new TNB single and video HERE! 10.10.07 France, Paris, La Maroquinerie 11.10.07 Germany, Berlin, Lido 12.10.07 Denmark, Århus, VoxHall w/Magnet 13.10.07 Denmark, Copenhagen, Vega w/Magnet

22.08.2007 : NEW SINGLE FROM THE NATIONAL BANK The first single from The National Bank’s second album will be released on Friday 17 August on the Norwegian radio stations. The single is called ”Let go” and the music is written by Lars Horntveth with lyrics by Martin Hagfors. The song will appear in the upcoming Varg Veum movie ”Bitre blomster” (Release date 28 September in Norway) and which is the first in a series of six films. LISTEN HERE!  Buy it on iTunes HERE! The video to the song is directed by Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen who also directed the film and the well-known action flick ”Izzat” a few years back. The National Bank’s second album will be released in the spring of 2008.   ”Let go” will be available from all Norwegian digital stores (iTunes, Prefuled og Djuice m.fl.) within next week, but it's already available on: Telenor.no/musikk/WAP: musikk til 2244

09.05.2007 : JAZZISTS ON MYSPACE We're all on myspace as well with our solo material and new projects: Check it out!! LARS HORNTVETH = Lars Horntveth LINE HORNTVETH = Sepultuba MATHIAS EICK = Mathias Eick ERIK JOHANNESSEN = Erik Johannessen ANDREAS MJØS = Andreas Mjøs HARALD FRØLAND = Black Feather KETIL EINARSEN = Okasa MARTIN HORNTVETH = Martin Horntveth + Wolf Whistle + MH Composer JAGA JAZZIST = Jaga Jazzist THE NATIONAL BANK = The National Bank KILLL = Killl MOTIF = Motif

12.04.2007 : LINE HORNTVETH ON TOUR WITH HANNE HUKKELBERG Jagagirl Line is touring all over Europe these days with Norwegian singer Hanne Hukkelberg whos's 2005 debut album Little Things was a charming impression of life in Oslo, notable for its imaginative use of found sounds and eclectic array of instrumentation. Her elfin but idiosyncratic persona coupled with a lazily seductive voice drew comparisons to everyone from Joanna Newsom and Björk, to Stina Nordenstam and Billie Holliday. Her sophomore album Rykestrasse 68, her first since signing to Canadian label Nettwerk, is a tribute to the six months she recently spent living in Berlin and is far less whimsical, with a moodier, more widescreen production. Like her debut, it was produced by Kåre Vestrheim at Propeller Studios in Oslo and features contributions from the cream of the Norwegian music scene, including members of Jaga Jazzist, Dinosau and Shining. Check out live section for Tour dates and myspace link

19.03.2007 : RAVE REVIEW IN SINGAPORE'S BIGGEST NATIONAL PAPER The Straits Times Effortless cool By Yeow Kai Chai WORLD VISION: Norwegian jazz-rocktronica collective Jaga Jazzist was a joyous riot of hipster style and genre-fusing ingenuity. JAGA Jazzist gives globalisation a good name. While growing world interconnectivity may have sparked off angry street protests elsewhere, the only sparks emitted by some ferocious Vikings at the Esplanade were of love, joy and endless fun. They conquered hearts and minds and set people free. You'd be gobsmacked by their genre-fusing vision where impossible is nothing (to steal from a shoe company's smart inversion of a familiar saying). Call them the best little big secret this year's Mosaic has to offer. The 10-member Norwegian jazz-rocktronica collective wooed a largely unsuspecting 800-strong turnout who were intrigued by press comparisons to hipsters such as Talk Talk, Stereolab and Aphex Twin. Nothing could have prepared one for Jaga's heady 14-track, 100-minute set. Here was a phantasmagoria of instruments that came alive in the hands (and mouths) of these affable preppie youths who looked as if they had just sauntered in from a university campus. Yes, these folks are cool without having to scrawl on kohl eyeliner or pierce any part of their anatomy. The same goes for their opening act, Singapore's very own experimenters The Observatory. They gave a hint of where they are going with a four-track teaser (the shape-shifter When I See A Fire is a standout) from their forthcoming album, A Far Cry From Here. Their Norwegian counterparts could well be excellent career mentors. Jaga Jazzist - 'jaga' apparently means 'to bend' in Old Norse - excel in sidestepping conventions. They go heavy-metal loud, pastoral soft, shoegazing intimate, prog-rock epic - sometimes all in the same song. Take the incredible All I Know Is Tonight, taken off their latest album What We Must, which sounds even bolder when performed live. The spy-thriller atmospherics and thunderous rock precision were orchestrated to shards of blinding white light - one second, Martin Horntveth attacked the drums as if there was no tomorrow; the next Andreas Mjos skittered away on the marimba in an interlude of music-box prettiness. There were other highlights: Sigur Ros-like beauty, as in Swedenborgske Rom, which was buoyed by wordless choral purring; and mysterious horns and keys conspiring in I Have A Ghost, Now What?. A breathtaking feat this was, considering how the whole ambition just seemed to insinuate itself without any arty self-importance and eventually compelled the famously sedentary Singapore crowd to stand up in awe. Caught up perhaps in this round of worldly camaraderie, the very funny Horntveth re-named one song, Oslo Skyline, as Singapore Skyline, to great whoops from the crowd. If this is one perk of globalisation, can we have more, please?

08.01.2007 : RAVE UK REVIEWS FOR ADJAGAS One of the foremost exponents of the new wave of Sami acts, Adjagas are finally releasing their debut album internationally this January produced by Jaga Jazzist multi-instrumentalist, Andreas Mjøs.The first UK reviews are now in and make for some very positive reading. Adjagas has garnered rave reviews in the domestic press for their self-titled debut album released in Norway last year through Trust Me Records. Now the release has been licensed to !K7 subsidiary Ever Records which launches the album on the European market in January 2007. The first reviews from the UK music press are now in and it’s safe to say that they are indeed positive. Both Time Out and The Wire magazine praise the album’s many qualities: Time Out’s Chris Parkin writes: Such is the intensity on this record you wouldn’t believe Adjagas has only two members. Norwegian from Sámi families – the indigenous people of northern Scandinavia – they feed their folk tradition into a mesmeric mix that sounds like Sigur Rós reared on alt-americana. Part of this tradition is yoik singing – making sounds rather than words - and this debut is an enchanting snapshot of another world that will keep you going back for more. (5/6) Read more HERE

08.11.2006 : MATHIAS EICK IS "JAZZ TALENT OF THE YEAR!" The IJFO International Jazz Award for New Talent will be presented to Norwegian trumpeter and band leader Mathias Eick from Jaga Jazzist. Presented by the International Jazz Festivals Organization in partnership with IAJE, the award is intended to provide a catalyst for the recipient’s career and includes a fully funded international tour. The member festivals of IJFO are: JazzFest Wein (Austria), Pori Jazz Festival (Finland), Jazz Á Vienne (France), North Sea Jazz Festival (Holland), Umbria Jazz Festival (Italy), Molde International Jazz Festival (Norway), Festival de Jazz de Vitoria-Gastiez (Spain), Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), International Istanbul Jazz Festival (Turkey), Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (Canada), Vancouver International Jazz Festival (Canada), Monterey Jazz Festival (USA), Ravinia Festival (USA), and the London Jazz Festival (UK). Mathias Eick is for the moment touring with Thomas Dybdahl. Check out live section for dates.

03.11.2006 : SINGAPORE, HERE WE COME!!! We can hardly believe it, but we're finally going to visit Asia! We've been dreaming of this for 12 years and it's with pride we can announce that JJ is visiting next years Mosaic Music Festival in Singapore. Hurray!!

24.10.2006 : JJ KONSERT PÅ NRK Fredag den 27. oktober sender NRK2 Jaga Jazzist's releasekonsert for "What We Must" kl. 21.35. Konserten ble filmet med 18 kameraer og har nylig blitt klippet ned til 50 minutter som vi får se førstkommende fredag. Regien er av Marius Revold. Du kan også se konserten i reprise på NRK1 tirsdag 31. oktober kl. 00.15 LES MER HER!

27.08.2006 : NEW PICTURES FROM THIS YEARS CONCERTS PLUS MORE We've uploaded a lot of new pictures taken by our fantastic fans. Go to pictures section to see pix from Slovakia, Brussels, Fredrikstad, Prague and more..

22.08.2006 : LARS HORNTVETH LIVE PÅ SORIA MORIA Kulturslottet Soria Moria 10 år, jubileumskonsert: Dette kommer til å bli en stor opplevelse. Med referanser til Charles Mingus, Robert Wyatt, Radiohead, Gil Evans, Bjørk, Cornelius og Kronos Quartet besøker unge Horntveth Soria Moria. Han har med seg Mathias Eick på kontrabass og ytterliger seks strykere. Pooka er Lars Horntveth´s svennestykke, spennende og detaljert musikk, vakker og opplevelsesrik. Til strålende kritikker slapp Jaga Jazzist frontmann og National Bank låtskriver Lars Horntveth plata Pooka sent i 2004. Mange av kritikerene nevner filmmusikk og drømmende landskaper, og dette blir jo perfekt i kinosalen på Soria Moria! Vi vil få servert musikk fra plata Pooka i tillegg til ny musikk fra lydsporet til den svenske filmen ”Inga tårar” som kommer i oktober. Horntveth jobber i disse dager med ny soloplate. Vi gleder oss! 28. august Billetter: 150,- i døra

15.08.2006 : LAST JJ CONCERT IN 2006 JJ will perform our last concert this year at the Hodokvas Festival in Piestany, Slovakia. Check out their SITE for more info. Some other great acts on the festival: Iggy & The Stooges (US), Living Colour (US)The Presidents Of The U.S.A (US), The Exploited (Sco)..

07.08.2006 : LARS HORNTVETH ON FOUR TET REMIX ALBUM Domino Records are releasing a double remix album with Four Tet remixes. Four Tet`s great remix of Lars`s Tics track (taken from The Joker EP) is the opening track on the album, an album that also features mixes by Radiohead, Block Party, Beth Orton, Madvillain and Aphex Twin among others. For more info check out the Pitchfork newspiece HERE! Tracklist: Disc One (Remixes) 01 Lars Horntveth - Tics 02 Radiohead - Skttrbrain 03 Madvillain - Money Folder 04 His Name Is Alive - One Year 05 Sia - Breathe Me 06 Aphex Twin - Untitled 07 Madvillain - Great Day 08 Bonobo - Pick Up 09 Rothko - Roads Become Rivers 10 Beth Orton - Carmella 11 Bloc Party - So Here We Are 12 Pole - Heim

19.06.2006 : JJ CONFIRMED TO ØYAFESTIVALEN We're extremely glad to announce that JJ will perform at this years Øya Festival. Check out their SITE for more info. You will also get a seldom chance to see KILLL perform at the same fantastic festival in the middle of Oslo. Some other great acts on the festival: !!! (US), Beck (US), dEUS (BE), Enslaved, High On Fire (US), Hot Chip (UK), Morrissey (UK), Motorpsycho (NO), Noxagt (NO), Serena Maneesh (NO), Spank Rock (US), Susanna & The Magical Orchestra (NO), The Cramps (US), The Knife (S), Yoko Ono !!!! (US)