PopMatters recommends Opsvik & Jennings

PopMatters reviews half-Norwegian duo Opsvik & Jennings and their new album "A dream I used to remember": http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/94619-opsvik-jennings-a-dream-i-used-to-remember/

New Opsvik & Jennings album available for free download

The new album "A dream I used to remember" from Norwegian-American experimental jazz duo Opsvik & Jennings is available as a free download for a limited time: http://opsvikandjennings.com/
It will officially be released on May 19 via the group's own Loyal Label.

Norwegian sax player Håkon Kornstad has updated his website with news on various releases he has on the way, including collaborations with Eivind Opsvik (Opsvik & Jennings), Håvard Wiik (Atomic), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (The Thing) and Maria Kannegaard: http://www.kornstad.com/
Note that he's also doing a Monday residency at Nublu in NYC this month.

The New York Times reviews a Rune Grammofon showcase in NYC featuring Opsvik & Jennings and Huntsville: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/arts/music/15opsv.html?ref=arts

Pitchfork reviews Rune Grammofon duo Opsvik & Jennings: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/43530-commuter-anthems

Opsvik & Jennings
Commuter anthems
Rune Grammofon

Akin to the soundtrack of a Charlie Kaufman film, "Commuter anthems", the second album from the Norwegian-American duo Opsvik & Jennings, is a bizarre concept album exploring the in-between world one enters when traveling from the realm of their personal lives towards the structured environment of a professional existence; in many ways it's an exploration of being nowhere in particular. Built up through layers of overdubbed instruments, a few electronic touches, and the obvious talents of the pair, the record is an exercise in controlled chaos and improvisation – and somehow it stills retains meaning. "Commuter anthems" is a sequence of daydreams, much like my morning commute from the District's suburbs into the city – eyes scanning the parking lot motorways lining the Metro tracks, the occasional police sirens rushing to an accident, the clacking of the train's wheels. Opsvik & Jennings have replaced all of these elements with instruments, horns replaced with strings, distracted longings traded for tracts of dreamy melodies, and the entire journey is sketched in the bizarre pacing and structuring of their compositions. Of the same tenor as Minotaur Shock, but less focused or restrained, this album isn't one to enhance a summer's day, rather to reflect upon the hours lost scuttling to stay in one place.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson

Dusted reviews the new Opsvik & Jennings album "Commuter anthems", out now on Rune Grammofon: http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/3578

Rune Grammofon has now posted cover art and more details for the forthcoming Opsvik & Jennings album "Computer anthems", due out March 26: http://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/opsvik_jennings/rcd2062-opsvikjenningscommuter

Rune Grammofon has announced that they'll be releasing the new album "Commuter anthems" from Opsvik & Jennings on March 26 and a new record from my favorite electronic act Alog somewhere near the end of April.