Yesterday was released their third album “3” (Rune Grammofon) and one of the ten tracks could be listened @ myspace! The beautiful Someday, which shows the dramatic and cool style of the vocalist Susanna Wallumrød and keyboard player Morten Qvenild. They will be playing a special concert at the festival Punkt in Kristiansand on the 4th of September. The official release-concert will be at Parkteateret in Oslo 10th of September.day. And the album can be bought at Itunes. more about the band
Emerging from the fallout of Oslo’s Grunerlokka club-jazz scene, The Mungolian Jet Set have built a new empire from the debris of musical civilizations both recent and long considered lost. Led by Paul “Strangefruit” Nyhus and Knut Saevik with Reidar Skar lurking in the shades, the Jetset have created a Sonic Laboratory at the heart of their growing empire, and it is from there that strangely beautiful and funky audiomutants issue, their numbers growing day by day.
Although their first release suggested a band hell-bent on producing the spaciest jazz ever heard, it has become clear that the Mungolian Masterplan is much darker and insidious, evolving to produce increasingly distinctive yet completely mind-absorbing beats to underpin a whirling vortex of sonic chaos, psychoacoustic bass warping and lavish and unbridled costumery.
The Jetset itself features a variable personnel, but DJ Strangefruit and Knut Saevik reside at the central hub, keeping a firm rein on jazz musicians, over-enthusiastic panhandlers, technocratic beat peddlers, trance-inducing throbmongers, Fallen Space Nuns, Europop charlatans, Hardcore Boppers, Bardic Word-spitters, Disco Dancers and lethargic Goldclad Divas.
Legends of their remixing skills abound throughout the known world and, some might say, beyond. Defining a Mungolian Jet Set remix is close to impossible, yet the beat is what immediately lets you know that you’ve arrived in the state of Mung. They probe the track carefully, and locate the Mungolian zone within it, before shaking it into a trancelike psychedelic wormhole that snakes through the souls of disco and bucket brigade dub.
Their latest album, We gave it all away, Now we are taking it back, was just released on Smalltown Supersound.
Susanna And The Magical Orchestra in fact a duo with keyboardplayer Morten Qvenild and singer Susanna Karolina Wallumrød. (Morten is a former member of Jaga Jazzist and Shining, he quitted to concentrate on this duo and his own trio called In The Country. He is also a member of Solveig Slettahjell Slow Motion Orchestra and norwegian chart buster The National Bank, and has worked with Nils Petter Molvær and Norwegian pop diva Bertine Zetlitz. )
Susanna and Morten started out as a band in 2000, and played mainly on the norwegian live scene while making their debut album “List of lights and buoys”.
The album was released in Norway in February 2004, and some time later in Europe and in Japan, and received very good critics around the world. “List of lights and buoys” contains highly personal interpretations of Dolly Parton´s “Jolene” and Leonard Bernstein´s “Who Am I” as well as nine originals that show a suprising degree of maturity, especially considering the writers young age and the fact that they operate in a landscape that requires a good deal of songwriting skills to hold your attention. Susanna And The Magical Orchestra combines the availability of the traditional popmusic, the strictness of the electronica and the improvisation in the jazzmusic. Producers Andreas Mjøs (Jaga Jazzist) and Helge Sten (Deathprod, Supersilent) have in different ways and from different positions been crucial helpers in shaping the final result. Helge Sten has also mixed the album.
The duo have performed at festivals and concerts in many big cities, like Tokyo, Barcelona, Rome, London, Manchester, Cardiff, Dublin and Brüssels, always completely captivating the audience with their fragile soundscapes and Susanna´s intimate interpretations of originals and often surprising selection of cover songs. (from the band’s website)
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