Jaga Jazzist News: Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit [Album]

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Teeming Norwegian collective Jaga Jazzist return in enchanting (and occasionally mind-bending) form with their fifth full-length record, "One-Armed Bandit". Elements of what many of us would normally, and quite naturally associate with Jazz - for example, the heavy use of traditional brass, woodwind and tuned percussion as well as focus on repeated increasingly altered/improvised patterns - do exist here, though these skeletal lines are coloured in heavily with lush electronic samples, great washes of glacial keys and heroic doses of both distortion and furious virtuosity, touching on the sporadic beat mastery of Aphex Twin and Squarepusher as much as the...