Rise Fly Fishing Film Festival

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Yes, here is some short info about where and when the Rise Film Festival will take place.  Don’t miss this chance!

London: Friday 19th of November,  7:30 p.m. – 9.30 p.m.

Oslo: Monday 22 November, 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Gotheburg: Wednesday 24th of November, 6:45 p.m. – 8:45 p.m.

Malmö: Thursday 25th of November, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Stockholm: Monday 29th November, 6:15 p.m. – 8:15 p.m.

Helsinki: Tuesday 30th of November, 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Rotterdam: Thursday 2nd of December, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m

Order your tickets here: http://www.flyfishingfilmfestival.eu/

Exclusive 15-minute preview of Jazz & Fly Fishing Season One at RISE Festival
Recharge this winter as ‘Rise – Fly Fishing Film Festival 2010‘, the world’s largest fishing film festival, hits theatres on a European tour. Over the last five years the festival has become the premier event on fly fishers calendars across nine countries and two continents.Rise – Fly Fishing Film Festival 2010 features stunning movies from global destinations including Iceland, New Zealand, Australia and Mexico. Gin-Clear Media’s “THE SOURCE – ICELAND” is the feature movie of the festival. Part of a series, THE SOURCE exposes lesser-known fly fishing destinations from around the world…

President Kekkonen and the album

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We’ve been working intensively on the Jazz & Fly Fishing album the last couple of weeks. Me and Fredrik finished the last overdubs and the tunes are now being mixed. We’ve received some mixes from our sound guy Mikko Raita in Helsinki. His studio is called Studio Kekkonen, named after a former Finnish President Urho Kekkonen, who actually was a very keen fisherman. He had the same spirit as we in JFF and often combined his work with fishing.

The recording is sounding very good, thanks to Mikko and Kekkonen, and we are very excited! Mikko, if you read this, Kekkonen would like a bit more bass. Cheers!

President Kekkonen wants more bass

Patriot flies

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I’m from Sweden, the small country far far away up north. Our neighbors are Finland and Norway. If I go to Norway, it is possible to buy (almost anywhere) “the book about stupid Swedes”. If Norwegians go here to Sweden they can buy the same book but with the very different name “the book about stupid Norwegians”. The stories are exactly the same in both of them. Here are some examples:

Story number one: (since I’m from sweden the stories have to be about norwegians)

A norwegian guy walks to a store. After a couple a minutes he says to an old man passing by: “why doesn’t the store have a door?

“because you are on the wrong side” the old man replies.

Story number two: Two Norwegian men are talking to each other:

“Have you heard that in USA, one man gets smashed by a car every fifteenth minute!?”

“Are you kidding? That man must have some bad luck!!”

In Finland they don’t have that kind of book and we don’t have one about them, But there are still some old nice tensions between swedish and finnish people. According to some rumors,  finnish people often believe that we in Sweden are fashion freaks, weak and crying a lot. On the other hand we in Sweden accuse the finnish guys to go hard on the Koskenkorva (spirit drink) and do nothing but stay in the sauna.

Since the situation is as it is, I started to think for a while. What flies should I bring next time I’ll go to Norway and Finland. What colors should a fly have in order to make the fish in Norway and Finland go completely mad?  After a while I got it. Then I tied these creations, three patriot flies, one for each country. I convinced that they will work extremely well and I can’t wait to try them.

The reason to why I also made a Swedish pattern is simply because I think it can be very effective on the swedish national day. Then the fish will take it in a joyful mood, probably laughing at the same time they bite.

JFF at Rise Film Festival

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Can there be anything better that watching high quality fly fishing films on a big movie theater canvas? The problem is the theaters never show fly fishing films. That is until now, when RISE Fly Fishing Film festival sweeps across the globe with fly fishing film events. Soon they are coming to Europe, visiting London, Oslo, Gothenburg, Malmö, Stockholm, Helsinki and Rotterdam (see the whole list of venues and dates here: http://www.flyfishingfilmfestival.eu/)

We at Jazz & Fly Fishing are happy to be presented on this year’s shows! So in addition to hard-core fishing action, you will also see and hear some of the jazzy stuff we have done with the JFF.

Gin-Clear Media is a New Zealand based company that specializes in producing high-quality, adventure-driven fly fishing films. It also runs Rise – Fly Fishing Film Festival, a worldwide film tour that travels through Australia, New Zealand and Europe annually.

Miles and More

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To be quite honest, I´ve never liked the autumn. Sure, it´s pretty and everything, but there´s something really gloomy about it. Spring is like 6 months away.

Well, there´s not much we can do about that.

However, autumn is a very good time to read books. This is what I´ve been reading lately:

Miles

Miles Davis needs no further introduction. He is a rare genius and quite possibly the coolest guy who ever lived. In this autobiography, Miles tells the story of his life and musical career – all the way from his childhood days in St. Louis. His musical journey starts in the bebop era during and after WWII, when he came to New York as a teenager and played with people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonius Monk.

Miles had the rare ability to continually renew and reinvent himself as a musician, and he always managed to be the hippest cat around. The Birth of the Cool-sessions, his two legendary quintets, Sketches of Spain, Kind of Blue, the jazz/rock era, In a Silent way, Bitches Brew, his relationship to Jimi Hendrix – it´s all there. And much, much more.

His story is also the story of black people in post-war America and the gradual acceptance of black music and musicians. And it´s also the story of drugs – and lots of them, too. But mostly, the book tells about what it means to be a musician in a band: the friendship, the conflicts, the road, the studio, the criticism, the self critique, the hard times and the good times. This book is interesting in so many ways. Highly recommended!

Advanced Drum Tricks in Slow Motion

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Fly Fishing makes your stick control perfect in all areas of life as you can see on this video. Fredrik Hamrå, the masterful drummer of Jazz and Fly Fishing controls the advanced drum rolls and stick-tricks with total precision and playful ease. Everything is captured with a special high speed camera.

JFF Flying News

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Yep, from now on we’ll start up a small news magazine every month. The name of the magazine is Jff Flying News.

Jff Flying News or “JFFFN” will be posted the 14th day of the month – every month – forever. It will take up important stuff but also crap information. You decide what’s important and what’s crap, that’s the cool thing with JFFFN. It’s a wrap. I’m afraid our first news magazine might be a bit thin, I’m truly sorry about that! Well, enough talking, let’s begin!

JFF Flying News (special edition)

* Håvard Stubø, maniac from Norway, should be a world record holder in number of broken fly rods. What is the number? answer: 22!!

* Speaking of world records – The german guitar player Vicente Patiz just made a new record when it comes to playing concerts in as many countries as possible within 24 hours. The new record? Answer: 8 countries!!

…and thats the end of the JFFFN this time. I said it was going to be thin. Don’t miss the next number of JFFFN, it will have more content and more nice pictures, tight lines! /Fredrik

JFF Flying Cat

The Curse

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Fly fishing can really make you superstitious.
While Tapani, Joona and I had One Magical Day of flyfishing, Fredrik couldn´t catch anything, and got really frustrated. And that´s not normal. Fredrik is a highly skilled flyfisherman, and more often than not, he´s the one who catches the big one.

So there was definitely some strange stuff at work. Maybe some Sami shaman threw a curse on him – that happens a lot up there. I´ve tried to tell him that it´s absolutely necessary to make a sacrifice if you want to have good fishing in these areas, but Fredrik never listened…

Days of creative action

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Wow – the three days we just spent recording were spectacular. We met in Gothenburg to record music for our fishing videos. We had had some mail correspondance where we decided what to play. No sheets – just moods: minimalistic stuff, drum grooves, bass grooves, dum and bass grooves, free jazz, old school jazz, lapland stuff, african stuff and so on.

We met in the studio and after all the gear was set up and ready we started playing. What we really had was a ton of different instruments, a weekend, and unlimited possibilities to just create music. In addition to the usual piano, bass, guitar and drums, we also had different percussion, ethnic flutes, string instruments, synthesizers, effects and toy instruments to get loose on. Fredrik was very impressive with the trumpet, and Håvard has some monster chops on the Indian flute.

We just kept the tape rolling and played whatever came in mind. Now we have something between 100 and 150 takes of music, and after a short listening a we were really thrilled – a lot of the stuff sounds pretty damn good! Probably some of it will end up on our album, too.

More from the session coming up soon!