Bushman's Revenge - Jitterbug

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2010
Time: 53:40
Size: 123,0 MB
Label: Rune Grammofon
Styles: Progressive Rock/JRF
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Always in Motion the Future is - 9:59
 2. Kill Your Jitterbug Darlings - 4:14
 3. While My Guitar Gently Breaks - 6:33
 4. Too Old to Die Young - 5:42
 5. Wind and Fire - 5:52
 6. Professor Chaos - 5:44
 7. Damage Case (Happy Go Lucky Karaoke Version) - 2:55
 8. Personal Poltergeist - 7:48
 9. Waltz for My Good Man - 4:48

BUSHMAN'S REVENGE is a power jazz-rock trio formed 2003 in Oslo, Norway by Even Helte HERMANSEN (guitar), Rune NERGAARD (bass) and Gard NILSSEN (drums).
After establishing themselves as a club and festival band in the years following their formation, and garnering a highly enthusiastic following in the process, BUSHMAN'S REVENGE released their debut album, "Cowboy Music", through Jazzaway Records in 2007. Following an extended Western European tour, and appearances at several jazz festivals, they signed with Norwegian jazz-rock label Rune Grammofon, and released their sophomore album, "You Lost Me at Hello", in 2009, to great critical acclaim.
The following year produced the band's third album, "Jitterbug", which shows the band more on the rock side of things, and features Ståle STORLØKKEN (ELEPHANT9, SUPERSILENT) on Hammond organ on two of the tracks. "A Little Bit of Big Bonanza" and the LP only release recorded during the same sessions, "Never Mind the Botox", consisting mostly of covers, followed in 2012.
After touring Europe, and also Japan, in 2012, the band released their first live album, "Electric Komle - Live!", in early 2013, followed by their sixth studio album "Thou Shalt Boogie!" later that year. The latter album features David WALLUMRØD (NEEDLEPOINT) on, most significantly, Hammond organ, which pushes the band's sound closer towards prog and space rock.
WALLUMRØD followed up his guest appearance in studio with joining the band in concert for some occasions in 2013/14. Another occasional live collaborator in recent years has been saxophonist Kjetil MØSTER (ULTRALYD, MØSTER!). Putting these two on stage with what is one of the most exciting young (all the members are still just in their early 30's) bands on the international jazz scene today, turning the trio into a quintet, makes for an explosive live experience, perhaps the most ferocious the writer has had the privilege of witnessing.
The live experience in question was their concert at Café Mono, Oslo, during Oslo Jazz Festival in August 2014, which resulted in the appropriately named live album "Bushman's Fire", released in 2016, simultaneously with the band's seventh studio album, "Jazz, fritt etter hukommelsen" (Jazz, From Memory), where they were back as a trio, playing their jazziest, least hard-hitting music to date.
The band's name is taken from a highly potent brand of South African chilli sauce, made from some of the hottest chillis available, very fittingly, as their highly energetic, and also distinct, sound, a unique blend of heavy rock/metal and instrumental free jazz, inspired as much by Jimi HENDRIX, PIXIES, CREAM, BLACK SABBATH, Jeff BECK and "Red" period KING CRIMSON as MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA, SOFT MACHINE, Alice COLTRANE, John COLTRANE, Ornette COLEMAN, SUN RA, Sonny SHARROCK and Albert AYLER, you're sure to get a kick out of!
Recommended to fans of the aforementioned artists, and to those who enjoy the jazzier side of bands like THE ARISTOCRATS, and BUSHMAN'S REVENGE's labelmates HEDVIG MOLLESTAD TRIO, as well as fans of other bands in the Rune Grammofon catalogue such as KROKOFANT, SCORCH TRIO, MOTORPSYCHO, SHINING, ULTRALYD, and GRAND GENERAL, a prog fusion supergroup which features BUSHMAN'S REVENGE guitarist HERMANSEN.

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