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Denne ekspolosive gruppa er av typen som spiller fletta av deg. Med felles interesse for 70-tallets fusion og syrerock, skaper disse allsidige musikere noe ekstremt groovy, kraftfullt og svingende.

Å gjøre en ny greie ut av den eldgamle fusjonen mellom jazz og rock har vært en disiplin der nordiske artister har hevdet seg særlig godt i det siste, særlig artister som Motorpsycho og Dungen, men man burde ha nevnt mange fler.

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Ståle Storløkken: Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes, Minimoog, grand piano

Nikolai Hængsle Eilertsen: Electric bass, acoustic guitar

Torstein Lofthus: Drums

Reine Fiske: Electric and acoustic guitars

On their fourth album, counting the limited vinyl only ”Live At The BBC”, Elephant9 join forces with Reine Fiske, the quite excellent Swedish guitarist from Dungen, The Amazing and Träd, Gräs och Stenar, for yet another heavy slice of mindblowing modern rock´n´jazz psychedelia. Writers have called upon names like Tony Williams´ Lifetime, Deep Purple, Brian Auger, Emerson Lake & Palmer and early seventees Miles Davis to describe the music, pointing to the fact that Elephant9 are comfortable in both rock and jazz.

Reine Fiske makes his entrance on the title track, the long intro section almost sounding like it could have come off an early Terje Rypdal album. No coincident considering Fiske is a big Rypdal fan and Storløkken being Rypdal´s keyboard player for well over a decade. His guest spot ends with the final thirteen minute tour de force and its heavy funk intro reminiscent of another guitar great and his Band of Gypsys.

”Atlantis” is all originals, four from Storløkken and three from Eilertsen, recorded at Stockholm´s legendary Atlantis studio under the masterful supervision of Janne Hansson and the band´s regular engineer Christian Engfelt.

Ståle Storløkken is widely considered to be the most inventive keyboard player from the fertile Norwegian jazz scene, his playing with bands like Supersilent, Humcrush, Motorpsycho, Terje Rypdal and countless others being firm testament to this.

Nikolai Eilertsen was first known to the Norwegian public through his playing with popular rock group Big Bang and later chart topping pop group The National Bank.

Torstein Lofthus is a most versatile drummer who has done a lot of session work as well as playing in jazz, soul and rock bands, most notably blackjazzers Shining.

Shockingly great Norwegian jazz-rock band

- Waysidemusic (US)

It is not only one of the best recordings of the year, it may be one of the best in the first decade of the 21st century. Keep an eye out for Elephant9 — they’re amazing.

- Allmusic (US)

Norwegian trio unleash furious prog-jazz debut.

- Mojo (UK)

This is more like throbbing pulsing atmospheric tuneful Emerson Lake And Palmer without the embarrassing cheese and those awfully naff vocals – this is all the cool bits of ELP delivered with uncompromising King Crimson meets Sonic Youth attitude.

Highly recommended delight of an album.

- Organ (UK)

Fabulous, freaky-deaky Scandi-jazz debut.

- Uncut (US)

The trio have applied unfussy Scandinavian good taste to an unholy mish-mash of Bitches Brew Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Cream (if Eric had ditched the Strat for a Hammond)

- The Word (UK)

This ferocious drum/bass/organ assault opens the Norwegian jazz trio´s debut album and manages to retain a weapons-grade level of instrumental mayhem throughout. Not for the faint of heart.?

- Mojo´s Top 10 (UK)