Project: Mungolian Jet Set album release - We Gave it all Away, Now we are Taking it Back
Publicist/s: Monique Rothstein
For: Released through Smalltown Supersound / Brumby Music
Release Date: release date 24 October 2009
Emerging from the fallout of Oslo's club-jazz scene, Mungolian Jet Set have built a new empire from the debris of musical civilisations both recent and long considered lost. The Norwegian oddball duo consits of Paul "Strangefruit" Nyhus and Knut Saevik producing dark and insidious beats to underpin a whirling vortex of sonic chaos, psycho-acoustic bass warping and unbridled attire.
Legends for their remixing skills, The Mungolian collective mixes all of their work, remixes, covers, collaborations and originals into not just one, but in true prog rock manner, two albums (each counting in at 59:15), as they are intended to be heard. The flavours cover everything from house and disco with soft rock/westcoast, balearic, dub and ambient, psychedelia and techno. Although their first release Beauty Came To Us In Stone (2006) suggested a band hell-bent on producing the spaciest jazz ever heard, We Gave It All Away and Now We’re Taking It Back features collaborations and remixes, once given away (some of the tracks featured have been previously released individually on rare and obscure vinyl 12-inches), and now taken back, to be presented in its full Mungolian context.
Here you will find Mungolian Jetset hanging out with Mari Boine and Ronny And Renzo, the bizarre Lindstrøm/Dominique Leone encounter aka 16th Rebels Of Mung, as well as journeys with Norwegian jazz-kraut legends Eivind Aarset and Nils Petter Molvaer. You will also experience psychedelic meetings at the mixing desk with The Shortwave Set and They Came From The Stars and last but not least, the cover of Could You Be Loved (under the moniker Pizzy Yelliot).
”Sublime. 4 1/2 stars” – Resident Advisor
“…they have the producer's ears and attention to detail of minimalists. 8.1/10” – Pitchfork
Website: www.myspace.com/mungolianjetset
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