torsdag 15. oktober 2009
onsdag 14. oktober 2009
Jazkamer 2010 Monthly Series
In 2010 Jazkamer will release one CD every month on Pica Disk. A subscription service will be available. Complete info on this series with prices will be posted in a few days. Send an email to mail (at) lassemarhaug (dot) no if you wish to be emailed the information.
lørdag 15. august 2009
LOS BASTARDOS out on DVD
LOS BASTARDOS in now out on DVD in the US. Available from Amazon or DVDPacific.
A multiple award winner and 2008 Cannes Film Festival selection, Amat Escalante's Los Bastardos "looks and sounds very impressive" (Variety), and makes an indelibly disturbing impact.
Like the rest of the day-laboring migrant workers who gather together each morning on a southwestern American strip mall sidewalk, Jesus (Jesus Moises Rodriguez) and Fausto (Rubén Sosa) struggle to get ahead in El Norte. But when a callous gringo boss strands them in the middle of a community that exploits them one minute and insults them the next, the two young men cock their sawed off shotgun and calmly take a troubled housewife hostage in her own home. "Why are you doing this?," asks Karen (Nina Zavarin), a strung- out and paranoid divorcee with little left to lose. "Por la dinero," replies Jesus. Before Los Bastardos reaches its shockingly violent climax, Jesus, Fausto, and Karen will have mapped out a contemporary North American wasteland of affectless, benumbed amorality far surpassing mere greed.
Co-produced by Carlos Reygadas (Silent Light, Battle in Heaven), Los Bastardos plumbs the depths of human brutality with the same cool cinematic certitude as the work of Michael Haneke and Bruno Dumont.
A multiple award winner and 2008 Cannes Film Festival selection, Amat Escalante's Los Bastardos "looks and sounds very impressive" (Variety), and makes an indelibly disturbing impact.
Like the rest of the day-laboring migrant workers who gather together each morning on a southwestern American strip mall sidewalk, Jesus (Jesus Moises Rodriguez) and Fausto (Rubén Sosa) struggle to get ahead in El Norte. But when a callous gringo boss strands them in the middle of a community that exploits them one minute and insults them the next, the two young men cock their sawed off shotgun and calmly take a troubled housewife hostage in her own home. "Why are you doing this?," asks Karen (Nina Zavarin), a strung- out and paranoid divorcee with little left to lose. "Por la dinero," replies Jesus. Before Los Bastardos reaches its shockingly violent climax, Jesus, Fausto, and Karen will have mapped out a contemporary North American wasteland of affectless, benumbed amorality far surpassing mere greed.
Co-produced by Carlos Reygadas (Silent Light, Battle in Heaven), Los Bastardos plumbs the depths of human brutality with the same cool cinematic certitude as the work of Michael Haneke and Bruno Dumont.
fredag 17. juli 2009
tirsdag 14. juli 2009
New York 2006
The final duo by Jazkamer (Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre) produced a set lacking in any focus or direction, an aimless, energy fuelled heap of wildly twisted dials and runaway power electronics. It was loud enough to clear half of the exhausted room to the lobby, but the volume was not the problem. I have no idea how much control Marhaug and Hegre had over the resulting music – they barely looked at their equipment as they wrenched it about – but it suffered from a complete lack of depth and substance, consisting of little more than a scrambled screeching mess of sound. As it came to an end my escape from the hall was rapid.
lørdag 11. juli 2009
torsdag 18. juni 2009
Merzbow/Jazzkammer: Live At Molde International Jazz Festival
Jazz classic for download:
http://staticcollaborative.blogspot.com/search/label/Jazkamer
What the press said back in 2001:
I can't imagine this being in heavy rotation in your CD player. There are a lot better discs of electronic noise improv out there, including by the artists' themselves. (Nate Smith, brainwashed.com)
Really irritatingly good. (Johnson Cummins, Montreal Mirror)
Platen fremstår mer som en bulldoser som sakte, men sikkert bygger seg opp mot et iskaldt klimaks. Men du bør legge tradisjonelle forestillinger om rytme og melodi bak deg før du våger deg ut på dette. (Øyvind Holen, Aftenposten)
En blanding av field recordings, frijazzbeats, piano, death metal gitar og elektronisk genererte støystrukturer presentert via laptops, gjør dette til en spesielt spennende lydopplevelse som bør inspirere til et dypere dykk i både Merzbows og Jazzkammers katalog.
(Carl Kristian Johansen, Groove.no)
http://staticcollaborative.blogspot.com/search/label/Jazkamer
What the press said back in 2001:
I can't imagine this being in heavy rotation in your CD player. There are a lot better discs of electronic noise improv out there, including by the artists' themselves. (Nate Smith, brainwashed.com)
Really irritatingly good. (Johnson Cummins, Montreal Mirror)
Platen fremstår mer som en bulldoser som sakte, men sikkert bygger seg opp mot et iskaldt klimaks. Men du bør legge tradisjonelle forestillinger om rytme og melodi bak deg før du våger deg ut på dette. (Øyvind Holen, Aftenposten)
En blanding av field recordings, frijazzbeats, piano, death metal gitar og elektronisk genererte støystrukturer presentert via laptops, gjør dette til en spesielt spennende lydopplevelse som bør inspirere til et dypere dykk i både Merzbows og Jazzkammers katalog.
(Carl Kristian Johansen, Groove.no)
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