So, it's been quiet here, I know. I've been at 15+ konserts last week in a little Norwegian town called Kongsberg. The National Guard was called in to try to limit damage from flooding. It was the biggest flood in 50 years. It did not ruin the festival though. I got what's called a "særings pass" loosly translated a weirdo pass. This gets you in to all the avantgarde shows. First up was Gjerstad & Nilssen-Love 4tet. Frode Gjerstad started Ultralyd, a great Stavanger band. (Some of the people in Ultralyd play in Noxagt)
Paal Nilssen-Love is one of the best drummers I've ever seen.
(Han Bennink beeing my other favorite.)
Anyway, lots of free jazz and a good start to the festival. Saw a Kurt Weil cover band also that day.
Ornette Coleman kept asking people to come join him on stage. Pretty cool stuff; they even played a Vivaldi cover/interpretation. This was followed by Norwegian band
Huntsville, part jazz, part country, part techno, part noise. Joining them onstage was couple of guys from
Wilco for a one time colaberation...pretty cool. More avantgarde jazz by Big Satan, some great stuff by the drummer from Shining (Lofthus/Eilertsen/Storløkken), Bull of the year, Triacria (metalheads enslaved+Fe-mail) and
Erika Stucky Trio who rocked the house tuba and jodeling style. I don't listen to free jazz on cd, but live it is a pretty amazing experience.
Wilco played a fantastic 2 hour+ set with a ton of extra numbers. You can get the show
here or on
http://www.dimeadozen.org/ (or so I read).
Here is the Wilco setlist:
01. Side With The seeds 02. You Are My Face 03. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart 04. Kamera 05. Muzzle Of Bees 06. Handshake Drugs 07. A Shot In The Arm 08. Impossible Germany 09. Sky Blue Sky 10. Shake It Off 11. Hummingbird 12. War On War 13. Jesus, Etc. 14. Walken 15. I’m The Man Who Loves You
Encore 1:
16. The Late Greats 17. Via Chicago > 18. Spiders (
Kidsmoke)
Encore 2:
19. Heavy Metal Drummer 20. Hoodoo Voodoo 21.
Outasite (Outta Mind) 22. I’m A Wheel
Not bad eh?
Jeff Tweedy seemed to enjoy himself
immensely, wearing a king Olav T-shirt and
proclaiming himself the king of
Norway...which people seemed to be
OK with.
The festival highlight for me was
OFFONOFF.
Offonoff is
Paal-
Nilssen Love (The Thing, Atomic), Massimo
Pupillo from the Italian band
ZU and Terrie Ex from
Amsterdam's The Ex. Hard to describe this stuff, but its great. Part jazz, part punk, part noise, all good. Seen them a couple of times before,
plus I'm a huge fan of their other projects
as well.
According to
Paal, the record will be out in November. I didn't ask what label, but my guess is on
Smalltown Superjazz. (They released Original Silence with Love,
Thursten Moore, Terrie Ex, Massimo
Zu, Jim O'Rourke and Mats
Gustafsson..check it out.)
If you ever find yourself walking around Norway in
July, I highly recommend this festival.
A lot of variety of excellent quality.
Here are some photos and videos from
Kongsberg:)
Huntsville and
Wilco
Paal Nilssen-Love w/
Offonoff
Terrie Ex
Massimo
Pupillo
Terrie/Massimo
Offonoff
Offonoff
OK, so I've been asleep at the wheel. NO post for over a week? I'm sure you're crying yourself to sleep. So I've decided to post about the Silver Daggers, or as I like to call them, the silver dags. "Joy" is the new "single" from the new record on Load Records. I saw this band a few years ago in Seattle, and they rule. Spazz Jazzcore from LA or something....I'm too drunk to write any more info, they are just great.
