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Who/what is jaga jazzist?

Jaga Jazzist is an experimental jazz band that rose to prominence when the BBC named their fourth album, The Stix (Ninja Tune/Smalltown Supersound), the best jazz album of 2002. In their native Norway, Jaga Jazzist became well known in 2001 after their third record, A Livingroom Hush (Warner Music) sold unexpectedly well. The core of the band are brothers and main songwriters Lars and Martin Horntveth, who formed Jaga Jazzist while still in their teens in 1994. They are also prominent figures of the Norwegian pop act The National Bank.

The band feature trumpets, trombone, electric guitar, bass, tuba, bass clarinets, Fender Rhodes, vibraphone and a rack of electronics, as well as strong melodies and rhythms. Talk Talk, Soft Machine, John Coltrane, Don Cherry, Aphex Twin, Stereolab, Squarepusher and Tortoise are frequently mentioned as sources of inspiration. Jaga Jazzist is widely considered to be one of the premier acts of the so-called nu-jazz movement of Scandinavia. Also, The Mars Volta cites Jaga Jazzist as one of their favourite bands.

-taken from Wikipedia

i cant believe i forgot Django.  :shock:

jaga jazzist isnt what you would call "classical" jazz (oxy moron?), but i would have to suggest them as well. especially for those interested in times besides 4/4...

two sides of the same coin in legislative hollywood.

yeah thats a typo should have caught it. meant chickadee,  :shock:

no jazz record collection is complete without the psychedelic sounds of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew.

i love jazz  

also check out "take five" by charlie parker.
the Art Ensamble of Chicago is cool too.

there are more but most are listed above. enjoy!

What gets me is that in the USA it is even illegal to grow rope hemp. A non-psychoactive strain of Cannabis sativa that has been bred to have virtually no THC at all.

haha, in california you cannot own nunchaku.

on a sadder note (as i dont really desire any nunchucks at the moment), im afraid that we are no closer to real change in drug policy than any other time, except PERHAPS with marijuana, and you know that will be drawn out for years. repetative debate is what congress does best!  :wink:

certain drugs should certainly NOT be legal, as they are horribly hazerdous to the body and mind. what happens when methamphetamine's become the new coffie? a country full of tweakers is a country full of zombies. crazy, skinny, pale, fast, sinister zombies.

or heroin? very addictive and if not done correctly easy to overdose. its never a good idea to assume that humans are smart.

also, im afraid that many, many humans still buy into the "just say no" policy, rather than "just say know". an educated and "well armed" mind is not what the government wants, unless youre on their side. haha if people would actually do some research on substances, drug use would probably increase tenfold.

in my opinion at least,

very interesting thread here. while i know little of Ketamine and have never experimented with the drug, i have heard many warnings and tales about its extremely addictive properties. i wonder if, while curing notciable depression, if the addiction would cause cravings and dependace, possibly putting patients in medical danger?

interesting though.

really? thats interesting. i wonder what characteristics we have in common with finches to cause this trust? it could be that they are frequents to bird feeders, which are around human dwellings.

hey lucky you trout face  

good points, i probably shouldny pin so much on religious right, but i do see the moral blueprint for this and other countries written by religion, and i dont know if that is nessesarily correct in this day. religion is a dying practice, as the ignorence for the physical world slowly disappears thanks to the laws of physics and chemistry, biology, etc. people are less and less afraid of gods and demons today than even...twenty years ago.

but thats not the point. i think that people should be looked at equally unless they harm other humans...so i guess i look down on the powers that be for that reason. but no government is going to be as pure as one would hope i suppose.

haha thank you for the warm welcome, glad to see folks here have a sense of humor...sheesh i better get posting.

it is my sinsire belief that the legality and usefullness of drugs in this country is a serious problem.

the first thing that strikes me as odd and incorrect is the forcing of old christian morals upon modern citizens. why is it that everything that cannot be explained by the so-called "word of god" (actually just written up by a dead white guy as the recounting of a tale of a possibly ficticious character named Jesus Christ, among other "holy figures" or "prophets" or "decyphles")...is considered incorrect or evil, better said by the bible thumpers of the world as the "work of the devil". many of the natural psychedelic substances have been in our diet and in shamanic mystical religion for centuries longer than any christian or judian derived religion. there is even a good amount of evidence that supports the "Stoned Ape Theory", first thought up and organized by Terrence McKenna during his explorations into drug and human history, and the minds limits of understanding the origins of our unique consiousness. why condemn the very things that brought us to where we are? its affecting the archetype of the balance, and if we do not soon remember the symbiotic relationship that we have with the ancient mushrooms, then how can we have hope for further expansion and progression of the human race?

now, since it is unlikely that the suits will legalize psychedelic entheogens and other psychotropic and psychoactive substances anytime soon, we must at least change the way that they are catagorized. LSD is not as dangerous as heroin, and marijuana isnt dangerous at all. it doesnt make sense that you can get arrested and sent to prison for having a quarter of magical herbs in your pocket.

another problem is the fact that we are filling our prison systems with skinny harmless drug users instead of the white pride fucks or murderers or rapists, AKA people who pose a REAL threat to society.

i believe that the reason that cocaine, marijuana and hashish are still illigal is because the government is making too much cash from collection fees from the border runners.

i found an interesting article on the therapeutic usefulness of psychedelics, its pretty recent too, //http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/reprint/186/6/457.pdf

i believe that the most useful drug for exploration at this point is N,N Dimethyltryptamine...mostly due to the work of Dr. Rick Strassman, M.D.

In addition, it has been proposed by Rick Strassman that the pineal gland is responsible for manufacture of endogenous dimethyltryptamine (DMT) although this is only speculation. There are some who believe DMT has a role in dreaming and possibly near-death experiences and other mystical states, and, although not proven, it was hypothesized in 1988 by Jace Callaway that DMT is connected with visual dreaming. Dr. Strassman expanded upon this theory in his book: DMT: The Spirit Molecule. However, significant (or any?) DMT production by the pineal gland has not been reported in the refereed scientific literature (PubMed search as of July 24, 2006).

thoughts anyone?

hi there everyone  

my name is Josh AKA Tarantism and i am new here. glad to be here.

i been looking all over the web for a good psychoactives/entheogens forum, and i think this may just be it.

i am an extremely expeienced psychoactives user, always careful and always looking to learn while tripping. bacically i guess im not just out to see weird shit (though that is a plus). i would liken my view on drug use less Tim Leary more Terrence McKenna- esque. though my views are not restricted to any pre-packaged set of beliefs. thats called a box.

i am a student at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA, physics major, though i have great intrests in Chemistry, i am a multi-insturmentalist and i also write words, keep a daily psychoanalytical log (not on me but rather everyone that i meet...).

i currently reside in San Jose, CA. thanks for having me!