Jaga Jazzist - Bananfleur Overalt Minimix

It's been 27 days since I've checked my inbox and surely enough there is a goodie from Ninja Tune Records...



Norway's most famous and acclaimed nine-piece jazz/alt.rock/prog/baroque/afro-beat masters return to the fray with a new EP drawing on their recent album, "One-Armed Bandit"."Bananfluer Overalt" is a mixture of epic refrains, polyrhythmic mania and fiendish musicianship, sophistication and naivety being slammed together so hard that they fracture into something else altogether.

After that brief reminder of the wonders of Jaga, though, Lars Horntveth and co call in the remixers. Sprutbass comes straight out of the Scandinavian Skweee scene centred around the dødpop label. In keeping with the central tenets of the sound, Sprutbass reimagines “One-Armed Bandit” as three million synths riding to Valhalla on the back of a giant mechanical bird built on the offcuts of Chic’s leather jackets. FINAL (known to his mum as Magnus August Hoiberg) takes "220v / Spektral" and makes it into sunny disco/electro. Animator and producer Andreas Paleologos aka Cuckoo, on the other hand, turns "Touch of Evil" into the soundtrack for the heartbreaking sibling rivalry of Mario and Luigi, before Prins Thomas rounds things out with a slow-building and utterly epic 11 minute "Diskomiks" of the title track, held together by a low-slung baggy groove.

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"Bananfleur Overalt Minimix"

Bananfleur Overalt - out 12/07/10 on Ninja Tune

Album "One-Armed Bandit" out now on Ninja Tune

- buy here -"One Armed Bandit"

Tour Dates

13 Jun 2010 20:00
KULTURISTEN Nesodden, Akershus
22 Jun 2010 20:00
FESTSPILLENE I NORD-NORGE Harstad, Norway, NO
10 Jul 2010 20:00
KONGSBERG JAZZ FESTIVAL Kongsberg, Norway, NO
11 Jul 2010 20:00
NORTH SEA JAZZ FESTIVAL Rotterdam, The Netherlands, NL
15 Jul 2010 20:00
SLOTTSFJELL FESTIVAL Tønsberg, Norway, NO
17 Jul 2010 20:00
COLOURS OF OSTRAVA Ostrava, Czech Republic, CZ
24 Jul 2010 20:00
MALAKOFF ROCK FESTIVAL Nordfjordeid, Norway, NO
28 Jul 2010 20:00
CANAL STREET Arendal, Norway, Agder, NORWAY
30 Jul 2010 20:00
FUJI ROCK Naeba Ski Resort, Japan, JP
5 Aug 2010 20:00
JAZZCAMP BEIARN Beiarn, Norway, NO
21 Aug 2010 20:00
PUKKELPOP Hasselt, Limburg, BELGIUM
27 Aug 2010 20:00
TAURON NOWA MUZYKA Katowice, Silesia, POLAND