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 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)

30.05.2006 : SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND AT MYSPACE STS finally got a Myspace site up and running. Here you can hear a brand new track by Mental Overdrive, a brand new track from Tussle`s upcoming Telescope Mind album as well as Bjorn Torske`s great Ny Lugg track from the 12" of the same name. You can check out the site HERE

13.05.2006 : MÅNEFESTIVALEN JJ will perform one more exclusive concert this summer at the great Maanefestivalen in Fredrikstad, Norway. Check website for more info We also have to recommend the legendary Royer's One Man Band. He plays banjo, dobro on stand at lap, and the foot controlled Guitar Machine with his feet. He designed and built the machine himself. Check it out HERE We've seen him perform "Duelin' Banjo's" alone!

14.04.2006 : SIV & KNUT - EN KJÆRLIGHETSHISTORIE Høsten 2003 fortalte Dagbladet Magasinet historien om kjæresteparet Knut og Siv, begge to narkomane og hjemløse. Deres eneste mål var å skaffe nok penger til heroin og morfin, og paret levde sitt liv på gata i Oslo. Likevel ønsket Knut og Siv å gifte seg. I en periode på fire måneder tigget Knut 14.000 kroner for å gi Siv drømmebryllupet hennes. Magasinets reportasje fra bryllupet ble opptakten til en unik dokumentarserie. Regissør Are Faaberg har i etterkant fulgt Siv og Knut i over to år. Det hardt prøvede ekteparet byr på seg selv på godt og vondt, og vi får et innblikk i deres fortvilte hverdag, men også grenseløse kjærlighet overfor hverandre. Musikken er skrevet av Martin Horntveth. Dette er Martin's første oppdrag for TV og han har gapt høyt over alle slags musikkstiler. Musikken spenner fra "Neil Youngsk" asfalt-rock via pianojazz og metal til romantisk strykemusikk. SE SIV & KNUT PÅ NETT HER: Følg med fra 17. april og alt i alt seks mandager fremover på NRK 22.15

02.03.2006 : EXCLUSIVE JAGA JAZZIST GIG JJ will perform a exclusive gig at the Les Nuits Botaniques Festival in Brussels, Belgium on the 30th of April. This will be one of the few chances to see Jaga Jazzist perform in 2006. Don't miss it!

23.02.2006 : KILLL CONFIRMED TO ROSKILDE FESTIVAL KILLL will perform at this years Roskilde Festival in Denmark on the 2nd of Juli. The band is very happy to perform at Scandinavia's coolest and biggest festival. Expect loud sounds and epileptic lightshow. Check out Roskilde Website for more info

02.02.2006 : EXCLUSIVE LARS HORNTVETH NEW YORK SHOW Lars Horntveth and his Pooka String Septet is finally doing a show in US. It will only be one show and it will take place in NYC the 9th of February at Tonic. This is Lars` first US show and he will perform music from the critically acclaimed Pooka album. His friend Morten Qvenild and his band In The Country (Shining, Ex-Jaga Jazzist, The National Bank, Rune Grammofon) featuring Marc Ribot (Tom Waitz) will also play the same night. Listen to one of the tracks from the Lars Horntveth debut album, "Pooka" HERE

08.01.2006 : KILLL VIDEOS AND PIX! Check out the crazy sounds and epeleptic light show from the September05 Tour HERE "The best noise act in Oslo, and possibly the best live show I've ever seen, is called Kill" Nick Sylvester, Pitchforkmedia

03.01.2006 : ..AND THE NOMINEES ARE The Norwegian equivalent to the Grammy - have now been unveiled. The committee of the Norwegian music industry’s annual Spellemannspris award has finally unveiled its nominations. What We Must has been nominated in the "Open Class" category Here are the nominees: ARILD ANDERSEN GROUP - ELECTRA (ECM/GRAPPA) BEADY BELLE - CLOSER (JAZZLAND) JAGA JAZZIST - WHAT WE MUST (SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND) NILS PETTER MOLVÆR - ER (UNIVERSAL) SHINING - IN THE KINGDOM OF KITSCH YOU WILL BE A MONSTER (RUNE GRAMMOFON) The winners of the prestigious Spellemannsprisen will be announced for the 34th time at a major televised show on 28 January. You can read more about all the nominees HERE!

05.12.2005 : WHAT WE MUST NOMINATED FOR THE ALARM PRICE Now in its sixth year, the Alarm prize has established itself as one of the Norwegian music scene’s most central events. The nominations for the sought-after award are finally ready JJ's last album "What We Must" is nominated for the Norwegian alternative "Grammy" in the "Free Music/Electronica album of the year" category. YOU CAN VOTE HERE!

05.12.2005 : CREAM OF THE CROP TURNÉ En av 2003s største overaskelser på festivalfronten var Cream of the Crop med medlemmer fra Home Groan, Jaga Jazzist, Motorpsycho, Hellbillies, Thom Hell Band og Askil Holm Band på Øya Festivalen. De spilte til terningkast seks i Dagbladet. Siden den tid har de blant annet i det siste headlinet på Månefestivalen, Kongsberg Jazz Festival, Varangerfestivalen og Nordland Musikkfestuke. Og skal vi tro hva vi hører har bandet bare blitt bedre. Cream Of The Crop er et band tuftet på respekten for en mann: Martin Hagfors. Hans arbeid opp gjennom årene har knyttet seg nært opp til en kjærlighet til musikken fremfor blikk til profitten. Denne respekten har kommet til gjennom arbeid i en rekke band (Home Groan, Groan Alone og HGH), samt som produsent eller låtskriver for andre musikere. Dermed er Cream Of The Crop blitt et reellt stjernelag fra norsk musikkliv. Det er aldri noen tvil om hvem som styrer skuta. Hovedpersonen utstråler styrke og selvtillit på en fabelaktig tilbakelent måte. I all sin jordnærhet er han fantastisk til stede med blikk, replikker og sin gudegave; stemmen.