Browse by Label: SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)

Artist:	RAZIKA
Title:	Program 91
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STS 210CD

'Few bands can make you instantly recall your favorite summer, your first kiss, or the first time you snuck out of the house. In Bergen, Norway, Razika, 4 precocious 19 year old girls, have discovered how to conjure these emotions, channeling a mix of innocence & rebellion, romance & heartbreak, & gift giving & gun slinging into their debut, Program 91. The album is a glorious contradiction; an exhilarating mix of ska, Riot Grrl, 60s girl groups, post-punk & upbeat, C86 pop that would make Phil Spector, The Specials & The Raincoats proud.'
'A sunnier, poppier take on post- punk like Kleenex/LiLiPUT or Swell Maps. Not that they sound redundant - we need great pop rock like this. It's infinitely listenable' -- The Fader

Artist:	TWO BANDS AND A LEGEND
Title:	Two Bands and a Legend
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STSJ 104CD

"The meeting between The Thing & Cato Salsa Experience started at the Kongsberg Jazz festival in Norway in 2004, when The Thing was offered the chance to invite their favorite rock band Cato Salsa Experience for a special collaboration. The show was a success & this also led to the critically acclaimed EP 'Sounds Like A Sandwich.' It was immediately decided that the Two Bands & A Legend should go into studio to record a full length album. On the album the bands do their own versions of tracks like 'Who The Fuck' by PJ Harvey, 'Baby Talk' by James Blood Ulmer among others. The CD is the perfect pairing of the dirty 60s influenced free-jazz that of The Thing and the raw & minimalistic garage rock of Cato Salsa Experience. Most tracks on this album was recorded in one take only with no overdubs." Liner notes by Thurston Moore.

Artist:	DISKAHOLICS ANONYMOUS TRIO
Title:	Diskaholics Anonymous Trio
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STSJ 107CD

"The debut by Diskaholics Anonymous Trio - Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke, and Mats Gustafsson - was released 10 years ago on the now defunct Crazy Wisdom/Universal label, having been unavailable since. Now Smalltown Superjazzz brings it back into the fray. The trio creates a pulsing, massive & monumental sound. Free-jazz, noise, electronic ambience, drone music & punk all mixed. The result of these 3 titans clashing together is an intense blow-out. Raw, grandiose & brutally beautiful. Cover art by Thurtson Moore & Kim Gordon's daughter Coco Hayley Gordon Moore."

Artist:	GUSTAFSSON/YOSHIMI, MATS
Title:	Words on the Floor
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STSJ 114CD

"Gustafsson (Thing, Gush, Diskaholics Anonymous Trio), a long-time fan of Yoshimi's work (Boredoms, OOIOO), teamed up with her for a duo show at Malmö Konserthus in Sweden in April 2005. The show was recorded & here is the result. A mighty piece of music. A monumental zen-like psychedelic drone piece for saxes & voice. The sound on the CD was created by slide saxophone (Mats' being of the few in the world today to play this instrument), tenor sax, baritone sax, alto fluteophone & electronics, all by Mats, as well as Yoshimi's voice plus electronics." 2006 release.

Artist:	GUSTAFSSON/NILSSEN-LOVE
Title:	Splatter
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	STSJ 115CD

"The duo is back with a mini album, 4 tracks and 20 minutes of music recorded live when Smalltown celebrated its 10 year anniversary in Oslo in February 2004. As with their debut album Gustafsson & Nilssen-Love's punk rock roots are highly visible & the musical expression is an explosion of energy created by breath & muscles. Splatter is raw power that brings to mind the the wild & beautiful days of Albert Ayler and Peter Brotzmann's Machine Gun session."

Artist:	ORIGINAL SILENCE
Title:	First Original Silence
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STSJ 124CD

"A monster is born, a clash of the the titans! The new band of Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Terrie Ex (The Ex), Jim O'Rourke, Mats Gustafsson (Thing), Pall Nilssen-Love (Thing), & Massimo Pupillo (ZU). Recorded live on the OS Italian tour, September 2005 in Teatro Arisoto, Reggio Emilia, Italy, to be more specific. This is the first in a series of recordings from OS. Musically one can hear the obvious influences from early Sonic Youth & The Ex mixed with the Scandinavian free-jazz. But you can hear their many influences from Black Flag to drone rock to Albert Ayler to Boredoms to noise, punk, Dead C, Merzbow & '60s minimalism. This is 100% improvised rock. A monumental, raw and harsh beautiful out-rock masterpiece. Artwork by Kim Hiorthøy."

Artist:	TWO BANDS AND A LEGEND
Title:	I See You Baby Shakin' That Ass
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	STSJ 130CD

"The Thing & Cato Salsa Experience recorded this EP during the same session that resulted in the self titled album. These tracks didn't fit the album & it was immediately decided to make this into an EP to be released after the album. The EP contains 3 tracks and 30 minutes of music. It starts of with a cover version by Groove Armada's (!) I See You Baby with Joe McPhee on vocals which is worth the price alone! The EP also features a new version of Joe McPhee's seminal Black Panther anthem 'Nation Time' from 1970 as well as Donald Ayler's beautiful epic 'Our Prayer.'"

Artist:	MARHAUG, LASSE
Title:	Alive: Live Recordings 1998-2006
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STSJ 131CD

"Working within the fields of noise music for over 15 years, Marhaug has toured most parts of the world, both as a solo artist & as a member of the project Jazzkamer. Lasse keeps on paying homage to his metal roots (this time Kiss' classic 'Alive'). A selection of live recordings done all over the world in the period of 1998 to 2006. This live album features recordings done among others in Toronto, Bergen, Chicago, New York, Oslo, & Baltimore. In many ways this is a travel letter from Lasse Marhaug to you! A travel letter in noise. Its starts out with a special piece that Lasse made for the Alarm Award (Norwegian Grammy award). He was told by the label to 'make ears bleed.' Lasse succeeded, he made shockwaves through the audience that was dressed for party & easy listening, and he probably did one of his hardest & most violent tracks ever. This CD documents almost 10 years with noise, and it shows the development in today's noise scene as well as it documents the development of an artist that is today regarded as one of the most respected noise musicians & huge influence of today's noise scene."

Artist:	FREE FALL
Title:	The Point In A Line
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STSJ 142CD

"Smalltown Superjazz is proud to present the brand new studio album from the Free Fall trio consisting of Havard Wiik, Ken Vandermark & Ingebrigt Haker Flaten. With clarinets, piano & bass Free Fall creates magical moods and brings the heritage of Jimmy Giuffres' legendary '60s trio with Paul Bley & Steve Swallow into the new millennium. The Point In A Line is the perfect meeting between the innovative jazz scenes in Oslo & Chicago. It's melancholic, dark, moody but also melodic. The album was recorded in Chicago by Jason Ward & the post production was done by Ward, Vandermark & Bob Weston (Shellac)."

Artist:	MARHAUG, LASSE
Title:	All Music At Once
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STSJ 162CD

Featuring Jon Wesseltoft, Stian Westerhus, Hild Sofie Tafjord, Kevin Drumm and Maja S.K. Ratkje. "For 20 years running, Lasse Marhaug (Jazkamer) has been one of the leading names in noise. All Music At Once is unmistakably Marhaug; with dense blocks of sound slowly building towards cathartic climaxes. And as often characteristic with Marhaug's music; in spite of the sonic violence there is strong sense of composition going on. Marhaug makes Noise Music, not just noise."

Artist:	THING WITH OTOMO YOSHIHIDE, THE
Title:	Shinjuku Crawl
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STSJ 169CD

"This time, The Thing return with guitars (gasp!) from none other than Otomo Yoshihide. Recorded by Jim O'Rourke live at Pit Inn in Tokyo, Shinjuku Crawl documents the different aspects of The Thing & how they are shaping & melting together with the wonderful guitar magic of Yoshihide. Otomo Yoshihide first came to international prominence in the 1990s as the leader of the noise rock group Ground Zero, & has since worked in a variety of contexts, ranging from free improvisation to noise, jazz, avant-garde & contemporary classical."

Artist:	VANDERMARK/PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE, KEN
Title:	Chicago Volume
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STSJ 179CD

"Recorded the 10th and 11th of June 2007 in Milwaukee and Chicago, these two albums show you the true genius of improvisation and the pure art of spontaneous music. Instead of making a double album, two separate albums with Vandermark's beautiful photos from the cities the albums were recorded in are presented as postcards from the cities. A beautiful, epic, warm and groovy free jazz soundtrack to Chicago and Milwaukee." Recorded June 11, 2007 at The Hideout, Chicago.

Artist:	LEAN LEFT
Title:	Volume 2
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STSJ 186CD

Subtitled: The Ex Guitars meet Nilssen-Love/Vandermark Duo. "Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love have played together since 2000 in various settings & as duo since 2002. The duo work within free expression while including a strong element of heavy rhythmic groove, melody, sound & noise. Together, they join Andy Moor & Terrie Ex of Dutch legends THE EX, who are known for mixing elements of rock, free improvisation, traditional folk & abstract noise to create their own very unique soundworld. Both duos converge, crashing along sometimes, creating a cacophonous racket but always musical & always ready to change direction or turn a new corner. The music is extroverted, energetic, powerful & inclusive but also confrontational & provocative, where rhythm, noise, melody & harmony melt together in perfect union. Recorded live in Amsterdam in 2008."

Artist:	BROTZMANN CHICAGO TENTET, PETER
Title:	3 Nights In Oslo
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	5CD BOX
Price:	$48.00
Catalog #:	STSJ 197CD

"Smalltown Superjazz is very proud to present Peter Brötzmann`s Chicago Tentet box set. The boxset features 5 discs, all recorded over 3 nights in Oslo 19-21st of February 2009 at Victoria, Nasjonal Jazzscene. This is a free-jazz smorgasboard." Featuring Peter Brötzmann, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Jeb Bishop, Joe McPhee, Johannes Bauer, Per Åke Holmlander, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Kent Kessler, Michael Zerang and Paal Nilssen-Love.

Artist:	HEBDEN/STEVE REID/MATS GUSTAFSSON, KIERAN
Title:	Live At The South Bank
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	STSJ 211CD

"The late Steve Reid, veteran jazz drummer and percussionist and Kieran Hebden (Four Tet), the British electronic musician/producer young enough to be his grandson, present the fifth and final installment of their momentous synergy. The music on this double CD was recorded in concert on June, 20 2009 in the foyer of the Queen Elizabeth Hall at London's Southbank Centre, as part of the Meltdown Festival curated by free jazz legend Ornette Coleman. For this marathon workout, Reid & Hebden were joined by Swedish power saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, whose fiery blowing style had inspired Kieran to seek out a drummer like Steve to work with in the first place. Live at the South Bank stands as a memorial to a thrilling and productive partnership sadly cut off in its prime."

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Artist:	YOUNG GALAXY
Title:	Shapeshifting
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	STS 205LP

Artist:	THING WITH KEN VANDERMARK, THE
Title:	Immediate Sound
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STSJ 105CD

Artist:	BROTZMANN/GUSTAFSSON/NILSSEN-LOVE
Title:	The Fat Is Gone
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STSJ 138CD

Artist:	OFFONOFF
Title:	Clash
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STSJ 147CD

Artist:	PARKER/INGEBRIGT HAKER FLATEN, EVAN
Title:	The Brewery Tap
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STSJ 160CD

Artist:	THING WITH JIM O'ROURKE, THE
Title:	Shinjuku Growl
Label:	SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STSJ 201CD