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Beauty Came To Us In Stone - The Mungolian Jet Set

The Mungolian Jet Set have landed! After a four-year journey through time and space, Paul Strangefruit Nyhus, Reidar Skar and their crew have returned, bringing many treasures back for the less adventurous to savour.

Originally commissioned by Bugge Wesseltoft as a project reflecting Miles Davis's electric period of the late 1960s/early 70s, Beauty Came To Us In Stone has evolved from that basic premise into a Jazzland classic unlike anything anyone involved had anticipated.

It is the product of a collective that emerged from the stellar vault of Future Jazz, featuring Haavard Wiik, Paal Nilsen-Love, Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten, Bugge Wesseltoft, Jan Bang, Erik Honore, Knut Saevik, Knut Reiersrud, Paolo Vinaccia, Anders Engen, and Roger Ludvigsen.

With musical touchstones as diverse as Miles Davis and Brian Eno, Leftfield and Whigfield, Jimi Hendrix and David Hasselhoff, Radiohead and Portishead, it is clear that this is not a typical Future Jazz album.

Ranging from the immediately accessible (e.g. Navigator which will also be the first single from the album) to the dark and disturbing (e.g. The Ancient and The Innocent), the Mungolian Jet Set makes excursions into musical realms untouched by human ear, right off the map: "Here be dragons!"

The album begins with the burning rush of re-entering the stratosphere, hurtling towards the grounding of a beat beneath dualing keyboards, before relaunching through alien rapping, raunchy hard blues, Milesian jazz, atmospheric terror mixed with Zappaesque dry humour, manic DJ spins through the world of an Anime demon-cherub, ending with a return to the placid Earth. Our eyes have seen more through sound than we ever would have thought possible.

This is a journey not just into sound, but a journey somewhere many "intelligent dance music" producers forget exists: The Mungolian Jet Set journey into MUSIC.

"The album is a trip through imaginary spaces," says Nyhus. "We wanted to make an album that seemed to have been discovered in an elephants graveyard, a place where the great ideas that slipped just out of reach when when Teo and Miles were cutting loops to make Bitches Brew, or when Hendrix was visiting the Third Stone From the Sun. We wanted it to be everything that ISN'T in the photo, it is everything that made it worth taking a picture in the first place. This a longer look at a fleeting moment."

Fasten your seatbelt, hang on tight and travel through uncharted space with The Mungolian Jet Set.

Music

Personnel

Close Encounters Of The Mung Kind
Reidar Skaar - Medium Translater
Paul"Strangefruit"Nyhus - Medium
The Mung Fu Five - Appearance
Recorded by Reidar Skaar and Paul"Strangefruit"Nyhus, based on actual encounters with The Knights Of Jumungus who appeared mysteriously within the gear and consoles at 7th Etage,Oslo the 24th May 2003.

Inexpired Pyro:What Took You So Long
Reidar Skaar-Programming,Reaktor Treatments
Paul"Strangefruit"Nyhus-Vinyl Channeling
Haavard Wiik-Piano
Paal Nilsen Love-Distant Drums Of Thunder
Recorded at Bugge`s Room by Andy Mytteis and 7th Etage by Reidar Skaar Produced Mixed and Arranged by Reidar Skaar and Paul"Strangefruit"Nyhus

Slaptops
Reidar Skaar-Programming,Arrangements
Paul "Strangefruit" Nyhus - Vocals,Vinyl Percussion
Jan Bang - Drum Programming,Remix 16
Haavard Wiik-Piano
Bugge Wesseltoft - Piano,Prophet 5
Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten - Bass
Endre Kirkesola - Bass
Rolf Kristensen - Acoustic Guitar
Recorded at Punkt Studio, Kristiansand by Jan Bang
Overdubs Recorded at Bugge`s Room, Oslo by Andy Mytteis
Produced by Reidar Skaar, Paul "Strangefruit" Nyhus and Jan Bang
Mixed and Arranged by Reidar Skaar and Paul "Strangefruit" Nyhus at 7th Etage,Oslo

Navigator
Paul "Strangefruit" Nyhus-Vinyl Channeling, Backing Vocals
Erik Honoré - Programming
Jan Bang - Drum Programming, Remix 16
Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten - Bass
Bugge Wesseltoft - Piano
Knut Sævik - Additional Programming
Recorded at Punkt Studio,Kristiansand by Erik Honore
Overdubs Recorded at Bugge`s Room, Oslo by Andy Mytteis
Produced by Paul"Strangefruit"Nyhus,Jan Bang and Erik Honore
Post-Production and Mixed by Knut Sævik and Paul "Strangefruit" Nyhus at Krise Studio,Oslo
Arranged by Paul"Strangefruit"Nyhus

The Ghost Of Cauldron M/I Cannot Live In Sin
Reidar Skaar-Programming,Arrangements
Paul "Strangefruit" Nyhus-Vinyl Channeling,Arrangements
Knut Reiersrud - Guitars
Anders Engen - Drums and Backing Vocals
Ingvild Hammer - Backing Vocals
Catherine Langeland - Backing Vocals
Produced Mixed and Arranged by Reidar Skaar and Paul"Strangefruit"Nyhus at 7th Etage,Oslo

Jet Setter
Reidar Skaar - Outer World Programming
Paul "Strangefruit" Nyhus - Vinyl Channeling
Haavard Wiik - Piano
Bugge Wesseltoft - Fender Rhodes
Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten - Double Bass
Paal Nilsen-Love - Closer Drums Of Thunder
Paolo Vinaccia - Percussion, Talking Drums
Recorded at Bugge`s Room, Oslo by Andy Mytteis and 7th Etage, Oslo by Reidar Skaar
Produced Mixed and Arranged by Reidar Skaar and Paul "Strangefruit" Nyhus at 7th Etage, Oslo

The Ancient And The Innocent
Reidar Skaar - Programming
Paul "Strangefruit" Nyhus - Vinyl Channeling
Haavard Wiik - Piano
Bugge Wesseltoft - Fender Rhodes
Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten - Double Bass
Paal Nilsen-Love - Sublime Drums Of Thunder
Recorded at Bugge`s Room, Oslo by Andy Mytteis
Overdubs Recorded at 7th Etage,Oslo by Reidar Skaar
Produced Mixed and Arranged by Reidar Skaar and Paul "Strangefruit" Nyhus at 7th Etage,Oslo

Technon Thai
Reidar Skaar - Programming, Reaktor Treatments
Paul "Strangefruit" Nyhus - Vinyl Channeling, Bass Boops
Haavard Wiik - Piano, Fender Rhodes
Paal Nilsen-Love - Triggered Drums Of Thunder
Recorded at Bugge`s Room, Oslo by Andy Mytteis and 7th Etage, Oslo by Reidar Skaar
Produced Mixed and Arranged by Reidar Skaar and Paul "Strangefruit" Nyhus at 7th Etage, Oslo

When You`re In Need (Is A Constant Thing In Change)
Knut Sævik-Programming,Keyboards
Paul "Strangefruit" Nyhus - Vinyl Channeling, Vocals, Korg Treatments
Haavard Wiik - Piano
Roger Ludvigsen - Guitars
Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten - Bass
Bugge Wesseltoft - Fender Rhodes
Richard Thomas - Flute
Wetle Holte - Cymbals
Produced Mixed and Arranged by Knut Sævik and Paul "Strangefruit" Nyhus at Krise Studio, Oslo based on recordings that originally appeared on "Jazzland Sessions - Friday Edition"

all compositions by The Jet Set
Engineered by Reidar Skaar except "Navigator" by Erik Honore and Knut Sævik and "When You`re In Need" by Knut Sævik

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