The nine piece Norwegian jazz-rock-experimental behemoth that is Jaga Jazzist return to the fray with their stunning new album, “One Armed Bandit”. All galloping rhythms, and grandiloquent reach, main man Lars Horntveth describes the new sound, tongue-a-little-in-cheek, as “Wagner meets Fela Kuti!” Certainly we find it harder to imagine a better soundtrack being written for the first Nollywood Viking epic.

Jaga Jazzist have become something of a musical phenomenon in Norway since they started out fifteen years ago. Not only is this 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. Their albums sell huge quantities in their own country and massive crowds come to their shows. Their international acclaim is signalled by the fact that the new album was mixed in Chicago by John McEntire of Tortoise.

Lars Horntveth began writing the music for “One-Armed Bandit” early in 2008. Looking for a way between and beyond the band’s previous albums, “What We Must” and “The Stix,” Hornveth decided that everything would be charted and written out, noth more focussed and layered than ever before. One night, while listening to Fela Kuti, he came up with title-track “One Armed Bandit” and everything fell into place – a kinf of ride of the polyrhythmic acid-addled valkyries that scarecely lets up acorss the 53 minutes of the final album.

Having taken on two new members, Øystein Moen and Stian Westerhus, the band rented a house in the Swedish forest to rehearse “this new Zappa-esque, more humorous prog-rock music.” On their return they rehearsed endlessly, a new tune each week, until in December 2008 the band went to Cabin Recorders to put down the album with Jørgen Træen, their producer since the early days of the group. Unfortunately, through no fault of the band’s, Træen got tinnitus after three weeks, so the mixing was completed in Chicago by the band and none other than John McEntire.

At heart this collective is a restless soul, going in many directions at the same time, but always going forward. Fast. The band always push their boundaries, both personal and musical. That is why they are impossible to categorize. And that's why they're special. Jaga is something natural and beautiful. A necessity. For both them and us.


One-Armed Bandit

Toccata

Jaga Jazzist - Toccata (EDIT)

Remake of my favorite score from the soundtrack!

Original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmezUREFGp8

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Sugar Storm (Remake) [Gone Girl Soundtrack]

Snowfall

Manus Mo Rùin by Scottish Gaelic quartet Cruinn.  Taken from their second album Stòras (cruinncd002) released Oct 2014.  Available from www.cruinn.net.  

This track has been nominated Best Traditional Track for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015.  

Manus Mo Rùin

Faclan/Words: Trad.
Ceòl/Music: Brian Ó hEadhra & Fiona Mackenzie
Pub. Anam Communications
Arr. Cruinn
Prìomh Sheinneadair/Lead Vocal: Fiona

Saoil, a bheil stòras de bhàrdachd is beul-athris Ghàidhealach ann an clò nas luach-mhòr na 'n cruinneachadh 'Ortha nan Gàidheal' le Alasdair MacGilleMhìcheil?  Abair stòras airson Gàidheil is goill le chèile.  
In 1115 Earl Magnus (Manus) of Orkney was killed by his jealous half brother Earl Hakon.  St Manus has had devotional followers to this very day.  This poem is from the wonderful collection of folklore, Carmina Gadelica, by Alexander Carmichael.  

A Mhanuis mo rùin 
Is tu dhèanadh mo rùin 
A chuirp chùbhraidh nan dùl, 
Cuimhnich oirnn. 

Cuimhnich a naoimh nam buadh, 
A chomraig 's a chòmhn an sluagh, 
Cobhair oirnne nar truaigh, 
'S na trèig sinn. 

Tog ar seilbh mach ri leirg, 
Casg coin ghioirr is coin dheirg, 
Cum uainn fuath, fath, feirg, 
Agus fòirne. 

Cuartaich tàn agus buar, 
Cuartaich caor agus uan; 
Cùm uap an fhamh-bhual, 
'S an luch-fhèoir. 

Crath an drùchd on speur air crodh, 
Thoir fàs air feur, dèis, agus snodh, 
Dùbhrach, lus-fèidh, cèis, meacan-dògh, 
Agus neòinean. 

O Mhanuis nan glonn, 
Air bharca nan sonn, 
Air bharra nan tonn, 
Air sala na fonn, 
Còmhn agus glèidh sinn. 

O Magnus of my love, 
Thou it is who would'st guide, 
Thou fragrant body of grace, 
Remember us. 

Remember us, thou Saint of power, 
Who didst encompass and protect the people, 
Succour thou us in our distress, 
Nor forsake us. 

Lift our flocks to the hills, 
Quell the wolf and the fox, 
Ward from us spectre, giant, fury, 
An oppression. 

Surround cows and herds, 
Surround sheep and lambs; 
Keep from them the water-vole, 
And the field-vole. 

Sprinkle dew from the sky upon kine, 
Give growth to grass, and corn, and sap to plants, 
Water-cress, deer’s-grass, fern, burdock, 
And daisy. 

O Magnus of fame, 
On the barque of the heroes, 
On the crests of the waves, 
On the sea, on the land, 
Aid and preserve us.

Manus Mo Rùin by Cruinn

Isolate

From "Big Red Nebula Band" LP 2004. 

Co-Produced by James Ford.

Cluster Buster

Nice And Easy

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Back with reckoner27cello, and this time with even more instrumental parts to make this cover even more epic and full of feels. We perform "Adagio for Tron" with 5 cellos and a piano. It is one of my favourite tracks from the score of TRON: LEGACY.

And of course special thanks to reckoner27cello for helping to make this happen. Make sure to check out her other awesome cello covers at her channel!
https://www.youtube.com/user/reckoner27cello

Cello sheets by reckoner27cello:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/yki1em803klzj/Tron

Original Composition by: Daft Punk

Hope you all enjoy this collab cover!
Mike

P.S. We decided to play it in C minor instead of the original C# minor.....just because.

TRON: LEGACY (DAFT PUNK) - Adagio for Tron (Cello & Piano duet ft. reckoner27cello)

Cat: HS007
CD/Digital Released: April 2012 (AU/NZ), May 2012 (Worldwide)
Gatefold LP Released: May 2012 (Worldwide)
Format: 12" Vinyl, CD, Digital
Label: HopeStreet Recordings
Web: www.hopestreetrecordings.com

The Bombay Royale are dedicated to bringing music and mayhem of vintage Indian cinema back to the future, where it belongs. Their debut album You Me Bullets Love is a blend of haunting Hindi and Bengali vocals, pulsing deep funk and disco breaks and shimmering surf-a-delica. Expect huge horn riffs, wild spaghetti guitar, bustling tabla, screaming organs and all the synthesizers, sitars and strings that made the music of 1960s and 1970s Bollywood so electrifying. Starring vocalists Parvyn Kaur Singh as "The Mysterious Lady" and Shourov Bhattacharya as "The Tiger," You Me Bullets Love is the soundtrack to a story of espionage, excitement, extended dance sequences and the eternal power of true love. 

The golden age of Bollywood was a riot of saturated color and dramatic excess and the music that accompanied it was unmatched in bizarre experimentation, deep sophistication and outright funky badness: a treasure trove for sample hungry hiphop heads and secretive, vinyl-obsessed funk collectors.  Musical director Andy Williamson ("The Skipper") formed The Bombay Royale to bring the hidden musical gems of that lost era out into the light.  The originators, people like R.D Burman, Asha Bhosle and Mohammed Rafi are still household names in India, but largely unknown in the outside world. The Bombay Royale is here to rectify that situation. You Me Bullets Love is for the neophytes and enthusiasts alike, a combination of vibrant original material and vintage Hindi superhits. Available on Gatefold LP, CD and digital worldwide, You Me Bullets Love sounds like no other record you will buy this year. 

Download the title track for free from www.hopestreetrecordings.com/ymbl

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The Bombay Royale - Bobbywood

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross-"In Motion" (Omniflux Remix)

Watch the videos! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bHYQ1DufHE&list=PLEEC4DAB4F56F5C99