Some weeks ago, I got a call from my friend Lars Nilssen (for those of you who don´t know him, Lars is a fly fishing legend here in Norway, and he currently co-runs a really cool fly fishing blog together with the no-less-legendary Lars Lenth: larsoglars.no). Anyway, Nilssen sounded pretty excited. He had been passing… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Jazz
President Kekkonen and the album
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… Read more »
Miles and More
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 Davis… Read more »
The Curse
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… Read more »
Days of creative action
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… Read more »
Learning Fly Casting
Can you learn fly casting in just 2 hours? Apparently you can. One of our missions at J&FF is to teach every jazz musician how to fly fish. In just two hours in separate occations, my friend Joel (who is also a great jazz bass player!) learned the basics. And as you can see in… Read more »
Heavy Planning
Lots of exciting stuff happening at the moment! Soon, we´ll meet up in Gothenburg for another recording session. The plan is to record soundtracks for our films + maybe some additional tracks for our coming album. Oh yeah, the album. Preliminary release date is mid-March 2011, roughly. We´ll get back to you on that. The… Read more »
One Magical Day
Some days are better than others. It´s a fact. And this July day somewhere on Nordkalotten was better than most. With huge hatches of all kinds of insects and big, rising fish all over the place, this is the stuff that winter dreams are made of. Music: “Kivran!” (H. Stubø) Performed by Jazz & Fly… Read more »
This Is What Happens…
…when our tours last too long. No further comments.
The Tables Have Turned
4th of July 2010: After spending the better part of last summer chasing us four bandmembers around with a camera, it seemed only fair that our producer, Petzi, should make the first cast on this beautiful wilderness river up north. After all, Petzi is a passionate fly fisherman, and it must have been very difficult to… Read more »
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