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Sweet Shanghai Devil
''Sweet Shanghai Devil'' is the second album by the Norwegian band Shining. It was released in 2003 by Jazzland Records. Track listing #"Firewalker" #"Where Do You Go Christmas Eve?" #"Jonathan Livingston Seagull" #"Sink" #"Shanghai Devil" #"Misery's Child" #"Cellofan Eyes" #"Herbert West-Reanimator/After the Rain" Personnel *Jørgen Munkeby - saxophone, flute, clarinet, guitar * Aslak Hartberg - acoustic bass * Torstein Lofthus - drums *Morten Qvenild Morten Qvenild (born 31 August 1978) is a Norwegian jazz pianist, band leader, and producer. Career Qvenild started his jazz career in the big band Ung Musikk in 1995, followed by studies on the Jazz program at the Norges Musikkhøgskole. He ... - piano External links Last.fm album page {{Authority control Shining (Norwegian band) albums 2003 albums Jazzland Recordings albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl long-playing (LP) records played at rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the popularity of the cassette reached its peak during the late 1980s, sharply declined during the 1990s and had largely disappeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shining (Norwegian Band)
Shining (stylized as SHINING) is a Norwegian band from Oslo. Thirteen musicians have been a part of the band's lineup in its history, with singer, guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter Jørgen Munkeby as its leading force and only constant member. The band is also called SHINING (NOR) to avoid confusion with the eponymous Swedish black metal band. Shining was created in 1999 as an acoustic instrumental jazz quartet consisting of Munkeby, drummer Torstein Lofthus, pianist Morten Qvenild, and double bassist Aslak Hartberg. They released their first albums '' Where the Ragged People Go'' and '' Sweet Shanghai Devil'' in 2001 and 2003 respectively. Their 2005 album '' In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster'' led the band into a more avant-garde, electric, and rock-oriented sound, with Qvenild playing synthesizers and other electronic keyboards and Hartberg mostly using bass guitar instead of double bass. Qvenild and Hartberg both left the band before or following the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant-garde Jazz
Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz and experimental jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. It originated in the early 1950s and developed through to the late 1960s. Originally synonymous with free jazz, much avant-garde jazz was distinct from that style. History 1950s Avant-garde jazz originated in the mid- to late 1950s among a group of improvisors who rejected the conventions of bebop and post bop in an effort to blur the division between the written and the spontaneous. Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor led the way, soon to be joined by John Coltrane. Some would come to apply it differently from free jazz, emphasizing structure and organization by the use of composed melodies, shifting but nevertheless predetermined meters and tonalities, and distinctions between soloists and accompaniment. 1960s In Chicago, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians began pursuing their own variety o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazzland Records (Norwegian Record Label)
Jazzland Recordings is a Norwegian jazz and improvised music label based in Oslo, Norway, often associated with nu jazz. It was founded in 1996 by pianist Bugge Wesseltoft to release his "New Conception of Jazz" and operate as a standalone label. There were three divisions of the Jazzland: "Jazzland", "Grüner", and "Acoustic", but these were dropped. Roster * Greta Aagre and Erik Honoré * Eivind Aarset * Atomic * Jon Balke * Jan Bang * Beady Belle * Mari Kvien Brunvoll * Come Shine * The Core * Jon Eberson * Sidsel Endresen * Endresen/ Wesseltoft Duo * Torun Eriksen * Ingebrigt Håker Flaten * Frøydis Grorud * Humvee * Patrick Shaw Iversen & Raymond Pellicer * Maria Kannegaard * Audun Kleive * Håkon Kornstad * Ola Kvernberg * Lord Kelvin * Merriwinkle * Mopti * Motif * Mungolian Jet Set * Punkt * Javid Afsari Rad * Live Maria Roggen * Samsa'Ra * Shining * Stein Urheim and Mari Kvien Brunvoll * Rob Van De Wouw * Paolo Vinaccia * Bugge Wesseltoft * Bugge Wesseltoft a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Where The Ragged People Go
''Where the Ragged People Go'' is the first album by the Norwegian band Shining. It was released in 2001 on BP Productions. The album title, "Where the Ragged People Go", is a line from the song The Boxer by Simon & Garfunkel. Track listing All tracks are composed by Jørgen Munkeby. Personnel *Jørgen Munkeby - saxophone, flute, clarinet * Aslak Hartberg - acoustic bass *Torstein Lofthus - drums *Morten Qvenild Morten Qvenild (born 31 August 1978) is a Norwegian jazz pianist, band leader, and producer. Career Qvenild started his jazz career in the big band Ung Musikk in 1995, followed by studies on the Jazz program at the Norges Musikkhøgskole. He u ... - piano References External links Last.fm album page* Shining (Norwegian band) albums 2001 albums {{2000s-jazz-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster
''In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster'' is an album by the Norwegian band Shining. It was released in 2005 by Rune Grammofon. The title is taken from a line in Milan Kundera's novel ''The Unbearable Lightness of Being''. It is the last album with the band's original lineup, as keyboardist Morten Qvenild would leave before the release, and bassist Aslak Hartberg shortly after. Production There are many cultural references in the track titles as well. "Goretex Weather Report" probably refers to the band Weather Report, "REDRUM" is a repeated line in '' The Shining'', a part in "Romani" is very inspired by a part in Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, "Perdurabo" was Aleister Crowley's magical pseudonym in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, "Aleister Explains Everything" refers Crowley as well, the numbers in the title of track six (31=300=20) is a Gematria reference (Shin), "It is by Will Alone I Set My Mind in Motion" is a line (more exactly a Mentat Mantra) from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jørgen Munkeby
Jørgen Munkeby (born 3 September 1980 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz and heavy metal musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, known as the frontman in the band Shining and former member of Jaga Jazzist. Career Munkeby formed Shining as a jazz quartet in 1999, together with fellow students from the Norwegian Academy of Music, Morten Qvenild, Torstein Lofthus and Aslak Hartberg. He played flute, alto flute, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet and keyboards in jazz band Jaga Jazzist (1994–2002), where he was one of the main composers on the album A Livingroom Hush, which was named the best jazz album of 2002 by the BBC. He also plays in the bands "Damp" and "Chrome Hill", and worked with Motorpsycho, Enslaved, Ihsahn, In Lingua Mortua, Bertine Zetlitz, Big Bang, Superfamily, Grand Island, Jim Stärk, Casualties of Cool, and Emperor among others. Discography (in selection) ;Within Jaga Jazzist *1996: ''Jævla Jazzist Grete Stitz'' (Thug Records) *1998: ''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aslak Hartberg
Aslak Rakli Hartberg alias Alis (born 1 May 1975 in Oslo, Norway), is a Norwegian rapper and bass player, and was the leading figure in the Norwegian hip hop band Klovner i Kamp. He is the brother of cartoonist Flu Hartberg. Education Hartberg attended Foss Upper Secondary School (1991–94), on the Music program together with the artists Bertine Zetlitz, Jannike Kruse, Kate Havnevik and the author Markus Midrè. He studied music at Norwegian Academy of Music 1995-99. Career Hartberg was noticed as early as 15–16 years old as a bass player on the jazz scene connected to «Oslo jazzhus» in ''Toftesgate''. Here he played in several bands, including «For Sure» with Sjur Miljeteig, and «Gest» with Tord Gustavsen. He established «Klovner i Kamp» in 1994 together with Sveinung Eide. The same year he was part of establishing the band «Oslo Fluid». In sum, these bands let out seven albums, in addition to a plethora of singles and EP's. In 1995, he was also involved in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torstein Lofthus
Torstein Lofthus (born 10 March 1977) is a Norwegian drummer and composer who has been a member of the bands Shining, Elephant9, the Mathias Eick Band, D'Sound, and Ebersson/Zanussi/Lofthus. He is married to Hege Lofthus. Career Lofthus has had a major influence on Norwegian music through studio work, live concerts and teaching at Norwegian Academy of Music and at University of Agder (the Faculty of Fine Arts). Based in Oslo, he now tours Norway and Europe with different bands and artists after finishing his master at the Norwegian Academy of Music spring 2006. He plays several genres, well known with both jazz and pop music. He has been the most sought drummer in Norway recent years, if not on tour with Vamp, Jarle Bernhoft, Oslo Gospel Choir, Mathias Eick or Marit Larsen, he collaborates with Maria Mena, Kurt Nilsen, Torun Eriksen, Bertine Zetlitz, Silje Nergaard, Eivind Aarset, D'Sound, Noora Noor, The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Jon Eberson and Per Zanussi, to mention a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morten Qvenild
Morten Qvenild (born 31 August 1978) is a Norwegian jazz pianist, band leader, and producer. Career Qvenild started his jazz career in the big band Ung Musikk in 1995, followed by studies on the Jazz program at the Norges Musikkhøgskole. He used to play in ''Østenfor Sol'' with Ole Jørn Myklebust, with Myklebust's OJ Trio, Shining (1999–2003), and Jaga Jazzist (2000–2002). Since 2000 Qvenild is the "orchestra" of Susanna & the Magical Orchestra and an original member of Solveig Slettahjell's Slow Motion Quintet as well a duo partner. Beyond these enduring collaborations Qvenild is also involved in the Jon Klette Quartet, The National Bank and he toured with Nils Petter Molvær's Khmer and with Bertine Zetlitz Band (2003 and 2004). In 2003 Morten Qvenild founded the trio In the Country with co-students Roger Arntzen (bass) and Pål Hausken (drums). They recorded five albums for Rune Grammofon. On the latter two –''Whiteout'' (2009) and the live recorded ''Sounds a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shining (Norwegian Band) Albums
Shining, The Shining or Shinin may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''The Shining'' (novel), a 1977 novel by Stephen King ** ''The Shining'' (film), a 1980 film by Stanley Kubrick starring Jack Nicholson ** ''The Shining'' (TV miniseries), a 1997 television miniseries ** ''The Shining'' (opera), a 2016 opera by Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell * ''Shining'' (series), a series of fantasy video games made by Sega Music Bands *Shining (Norwegian band), a Norwegian experimental jazz band *Shining (Swedish band), a Swedish black metal band *The Shining (band), a band formed by former members of the Verve Albums * ''Shining'' (Marcia Hines album) * ''Shining'' (EP), an EP by Crystal Kay * ''The Shining'' (J Dilla album) * ''The Shining'' (RBX album) *''Dah Shinin''', a 1995 album by Smif-N-Wessun * ''The Shining'' (Violent J album) *''The Shining'', an album by IneartheD Songs * "Shining" (song), by DJ Khaled featuring Beyoncé and Jay Z * "Shining", by Amorphis from ''Tuonela'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
