Rocklab

Tue 08 Feb 2022 - 20:00

Blues/Jazz

JAGA JAZZIST

Practical Info

Venue: Rockhal Club
Promoter: Rockhal

Doors: 20:00

About

The show of JAGA JAZZIST initially postponed to the 17th of April 2021 has been rescheduled to the 8th of February 2022. All tickets bought remain valid for the new date. We thank you for your understanding and hope to see you back soon at the Rockhal! It’s impossible to describe the myriad musical influences and inspirations that inform the sound of Jaga Jazzist without tumbling down a rabbit hole of genre confusion such is the sonic magnitude and diversity of the Norwegian supergroup’s compositions. The band has consistently confounded categorisation from its inception. However, the direction of travel has been obstinately consistent: moving forward... always moving forward. Jaga Jazzist return with their new album “Pyramid” on 7 August 2020, where the legendary Norwegian eight-piece takes a deep dive into post-rock, jazz and psychedelia influences. It’s their first album since 2015’s “Starfire”, their ninth album in a career now spanning four decades, but it marks the group’s debut on Brainfeeder, the LA-based imprint curated by Flying Lotus. On “Pyramid”, Jaga Jazzist have crafted a suitably cosmic sound to match their new label home, all the while nodding to forebears spanning from 80s jazz band Out To Lunch and Norwegian synth guru Ståle Storløkken, to contemporaries Tame Impala, Todd Terje and Jon Hopkins. Each of the album’s four longform entries evolves over carefully plotted movements, the tracks’ technicolour threads dreamily unspooling.