Mungolian
Jetset
We
Gave It All Away...Now We Are Taking It Back (Smalltown
Supersound)
Smalltown Supersound is proud to present you
to the exotic schlock tastes of Mungolian Jetset. With the
album We Gave It All Away...Now We Are Taking It Back,
out August 18, 2009, the Mungolian collective mixes all of
their work, remixes, covers, collaborations and originals
into not just one, but in true prog rock manner, two albums
(each counting in at 59:15,) as they are intended to be heard.
The flavors cover everything from house and
disco inspired cheekiness via shameless dabblings with soft
rock/Norwegian west coast, balearic, dub and ambient, psychedelia
and techno, all melted into one giant wormhole of sound. Imagination
is pretty much the key to Mungolian Jetset's aural ingredients.
One of their spokesmen, Paul "Strangefruit" Nyhus,
keeps insisting they operate as channelers for a parallel
world of Mungsters, an ancient breed of intergalactic travelers
in sound, working within the time-space continuum. Throughout
their history it has become clear that they are not just a
band hell-bent on producing the spaciest jazz ever heard,
but 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, psycho-acoustic bass warping and lavish and unbridled
costumery. Legends of their remixing skills abound throughout
the known world and, some might say, beyond. Defining a Mungolian
Jetset 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 trance-like psychedelic
wormhole that snakes through the souls of disco and bucket
brigade dub.
So, apart from all of this gibberish, what kind
of album is We Gave It All Away...Now We Are Taking It
Back? It's all in the title, as it features collaborations
and remixes, once given away (most of the tracks featured
have been previously released individually on vinyl 12-inches
or in some other form,) and now taken back, to be presented
in its full Mungolian context. So here you will find Mungolian
Jetset hanging out with Mari Boine and Ronny And Renzo in
a lavo within the centre of the earth, the bizarre Lindstrøm/Dominique
Leone encounter aka 16th Rebels Of Mung, as well as journeys
with Norwegian jazz-kraut legends Eivind Aarset and Nils Petter
Molvaer, psychedelic meetings at the mixing desk with The
Shortwave Set and They Came From The Stars, excessive trippings
at an Italian nightclub with LSB, hanging out in L.A. June
1984 with Athana, and taking Ost & Kjex to some cabaret
show in a giant barber-shop, meeting the ghost of Michael
Jackson, reuniting with Lindstrøm in a turkish bath
as well as a couple of exclusive originals and last but not
least, their beyond zonked-out cover of "Could You Be
Loved" under the moniker Pizzy Yelliot.
File under: Fantasy
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