NJET NJET 9

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Njet Njet 9 is a lively mini big band with a cheerful touch to making music. Their music is rich in arrangement, painting vast musical landscapes that range from nostalgic to futuristic. As band leader Ville Kyttälä puts it "Njet Njet 9's music sounds like Zappa and Zawinul are playing tennis with Massive Attack at a Swedish summer cottage". Easy going the music may be, but there's still lots of layers to dig into.

Njet Njet 9 is releasing their second album Dark Soul in November and continuing their mission to open-mindedly mix genres and not take things too seriously.

Ville Kyttälä - Keyboards // Martti Vesala - Trumpet // Mikko Haanpää - Trombone // Linda Fredriksson - Saxophone // Ville Vannemaa - Saxophone // Pekka Seppänen - Saxophone // Veikki Virkajärvi - Guitar // Heikki Laine - Bass // Eeti Nieminen - Drums

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NJET NJET 9 Unicorn attack album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Unicorn attack
Nu Jazz 2016
NJET NJET 9 Dark Soul album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Dark Soul
Nu Jazz 2017
NJET NJET 9 III album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
III
Nu Jazz 2020
NJET NJET 9 Toivo album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
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NJET NJET 9 Toivo

Album · 2024 · Nu Jazz
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Matti P
Nu jazz is a subgenre I haven't much explored yet, even though it really seems to please me. In short it's jazz with electronic music ingredients, a step further from its cousin 'acid jazz'. Amusingly named Njet Njet 9 is a Finnish instrumental group founded in 2015 and led by keyboardist-composer Ville Kyttälä. Toivo (=Hope) is their fourth album released a few months ago. I haven't listened to the previous albums, because in fact I just found the band by shuffling through the JMA database. I won't let that bother me, I'm only glad to introdude them here. Great stuff!

Toivo has seven tracks mostly around 5-6 minute length, which feels exactly suitable for the compositions; there's enough space to weave fascinating and hypnotically flowing soundscapes with a feel of progression, and at the same time things are kept compact enough not to lose focus or freshness. 'Pöllö' (=Owl) is an excellent opener. The atmosphere is at first very soft and nocturnal, but the playing gets more intense in an awesome way. Kyttälä's otherworldly synths offer the coolest details, harmonically accompanied by richly nuanced woodwinds. Markus Pajakkala, also remembered as the frontman of UTOPIANISTI, has beautiful flute parts here.

'Maa' (=Earth/Country) is also pretty dynamic and contains important contributions from bass clarinet and bass trombone. The band's overall sound is deliciously juicy. The summery jazz groove and the [space/progressive] rock aspect are in a happy harmony, and that's naturally also due to the gifted rhythm section and guitarist Veikki Virkajärvi.

The fourth piece 'Pieni pilvi' (=Little cloud) is a dreamy slow-tempo tune that brings me -- guided by the title, of course -- associations to the Gil Evans /Sting interpretation of the Jimi Hendrix ballad, whether it's deliberate or not. It doesn't citate the song anyhow but the mood is a bit similar. The longest track 'The Messenger' (8:17) takes a couple of minutes to start properly. The length is used for both deepening the hypnotic beat and bringing variety in the arrangement. The album closes with the romantically peaceful title track.

A very enjoyable, detailed and dynamic nu jazz album indeed. A pity that this time the band didn't invite any guest vocalists as they occasionally have done, but the whole surely works well as an all-instrumental album, too. Warmly recommended.

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