Jazkamer @ Blå
3rd March 2010 Oslo, Norway
Behold; Jazkamer — formerly known with an extra Z and M, also known to shed members and albums. Their trio format, consisting of founders John Hegre and Lasse Marhaug, with drummer Nils Are Drønen, visited Blå on Wednesday to celebrate one of their twelve new albums, The Monroe Doctrine.
Their 2008 album Art Breaker gave us 58 songs in 17 minutes. This year they give us 12 albums in 12 months. And this week they practically blew the blood through our veins, making neck hairs vibrate and eardrums pulsate. This is physical music that benifits from attention to detail. While Drønen might have started out with all that ‘I’ll just hit the drums like I can’t hear the band’-jazz going on, it turned out he was the real monster. The intensity, the stamina… There’s no reason why you wouldn’t want to catch one of the remaining nine release gigs this year.
Marhaug promised Dagsavisen every album this year will be a newly recorded studio effort, not a bunch of old live recordings and explained, “If the CD is a dying format we’re at least going to bid it a worthy farewell”.
Let’s just say if the live gig was a dying format, that too would go out with a bang this year.
Out now: Solitary Nail, Musica Non Grata and The Monroe Doctrine
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