Kaos

Fresh from celebrating their tenth anniversary and with two North American tours in one year under their belts, Norway's TROLLFEST are starting 2014 by announcing details of what will be their sixth full-length album as well as details of their first headlining European tour. The thirteen-track album will be titled "Kaptein Kaos" and is expected to appear on NoiseArt Records on March 28. Recorded at the dUb Studio in Oslo and at the Trollskogen Recording Facilities, the CD was mixed by Endre Kirkesola. Once again the striking artwork is by Swedish cartoonist Jonas Darnell and design by Terje Johnsen, both longtime collaborators with the band.

Everyone Nowhere, the title of the latest full-length instalment from Swiss Post Jazz outfit Kaos Protokoll, is a scathing assessment of where we ended up, not only as a culture, but also as a species. However, instead of delivering an equally bleak or, at the least, a heavily sardonic soundtrack to boot, what we get is a deeply moving, mindful and extremely introspective work of aural psycho-geography. Everyone Nowhere is an electronically-inflected, Post Future Beats, modern Spiritual Jazz record. It’s also a very personal work, one that ruminates over ideas such as presence, psycho-emotional connection to physical spaces, and the artist’s perpetual engagement with flux.