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Shining 2001 Where the Ragged People Go
Shining 2003 Sweet Shanghai Devil
Shining 2005 In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster
Shining 2007 Grindstone
Shining 2010 Blackjazz

 

 Гениальная группа из Норвегии, начинавшая с веселого пост-бопа, и с каждым релизом все усложнявшая и усложнявшая свое звучание. На последнем альбоме — шизоидный jazz-industrial-avant-garde-metal. Не путайте со шведской группой.

PS: Ре-пост в связи с появлением качественных рипов с физических носителей с полноценными сканами взамен рипов с ваты..

Current members
Jorgen Munkeby – Sax, guitar, Akai EWI, vocals etc. (since 1999)
Torstein Lofthus – Drums (since 1999)
Tor Egil Kreken – Bass (since 2008)
Bernt Moen – Keys (since 2008)
Even Helte Hermansen – Guitar (since 2007)

Former members
Andreas Ulvo – Keys (2007–2008)
Morten Strom – Bass (2005–2008)
Andreas Hessen Schei – Keys (2005–2006)
Aslak Hartberg – Double bass and electric bass (1999–2005)
Morten Qvenild – Keys (1999–2004)

"First period"
Shining was formed in 1999 by Jørgen Munkeby (guitar, sax and various instruments) when he moved from his hometown of Tønsberg to Oslo to study in the Norwegian State Academy of Music. As he has been playing in bands ever since he was ten years old, he wished to form a new one in Oslo. In this new school there was a good opportunity for him to choose musicians for this project of his and he chose three he thought to be the best. This new band started playing Jørgen's music he wrote for the band and also performed in several shows as a support band, in which Jørgen says the band gave highly energetic shows, playing loud and fast. In 2001 the band released their first album, Where The Ragged People Go on "bp Records", and in 2003 after a tour in China, they released Sweet Shanghai Devil on "Jazzland Records". These two albums are strictly acoustic jazz music, with much improvisation and with a hardcore feeling which is due to the way they were recorded — "Ragged was recorded with only two microphones, S S Devil with three". Jørgen say that they set themselves rules of how they should and should not play. However by the time they released those two albums, they felt those rules are too restricting for them, preventing them to do something else, more varied.

"Second period"
Since the band members were playing and composing in other bands as well (for instance, Jørgen and Morten playing in Jaga Jazzist) they were exposed and experienced in playing other types of music. For their next album they used as many instruments as they could, and took advantage of everything they could in studios to get the mixed genre result that is In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster, which was released through Rune Grammofon in 2005. Shining's lineup was reinforced after that album with a new bassist and keyboards player (Andreas Schei from Jaga Jazzist). 2007 sees the release of Grindstone which continues Kingdom's sound and progresses from it as well.

Music:
In their two albums, In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster and Grindstone, once you get passed the aggressiveness and noisy parts, and give the album a proper listen, you will realize there is a lot that is missed on initial listening. Additional layers of music reveal themselves, more instruments are heard through all the seeming chaos and various styles of music manifest themselves throughout the tracks.
You start to appreciate their ability to create levels inside their music that become apparent as you train your ears with their albums. It can be brutal at times, but it is also melodic (and even Kitschy.). The instrumental music in one track can be this aggressive type mentioned or can be a more amorphic and experimental while in others you hear a minor jazz influence. All in all, they created their own sound. The music is complex, shifting a lot throughout the track, many odd time signatures which alternate, use of a variety of sounds to create their style, and at times gets quite heavy (not in a classic metal kind). It is however a varied album and the tracks, while having a thread connecting between them in terms of their sound and spirit, each has its special place and identity and is different from the others.
When looking at the musicians, composers and bands that they state as their influence, one gets the idea of how they got to their present sound.

It is well worth the time to look over the new for interviews with the band and Jørgen and read about their influences, their early time together and about small anecdotes like the song titles.

The following is taken from the press release of Grindstone and it is one paragraph shortly giving the musical background of the band:
"The press dropped many names when trying to place Shining´s previous album on the musical map, from The Mars Volta and Slayer via King Crimson and Mahavishnu Orchestra to Henry Cow, This Heat, Ornette Coleman, Ligeti and Messiaen. One thing they all agreed on was the striking originality of this young group who had gone through a radical transition from starting out as a postbop jazz quartet. With "In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster" they tried to squeeze in as much as they could, but masterful editing and production from Kåre Chr. Vestrheim made it all stick together in a very convincing way. Vestrheim is also the producer of this album."

Shining 2001 Where The Ragged People Go

Label: BP Productions
Catalog #: BP01011
Format : CD, Album
Country : Norway
Released : 2001
Genre : Jazz
Style : Contemporary Jazz
Audio : Flac (Image+Cue+Log+Scans)
Size : 318Mb

Tracklist:

1 Spooks In The Hall 5:03
2 The Fool 5:21
3 Small Steps 4:13
4 Dalton City 7:05
5 Randomizer 4:35
6 Song Of A Long Gone Girl 8:00
7 Hell's Bells 8:00
8 The Fools 6:34

Credits:

Acoustic Bass — Aslak Hartberg
Composed By — Jørgen Munkeby
Design — Rune Mortensen
Drums — Torstein Lofthus
Executive Producer — Kjell Einar Karlsen, Martin Revheim, Øyvind Larsen
Mastered By — Ingar Hunskaar
Photography — Colin Eick
Piano — Morten Qvenild
Producer — Shining
Recorded By — Henning Bortne, Tage Gerhardsen
Recorded By [Additional] — Audun Ofstad Borrmann
Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Bass Clarinet — Jørgen Munkeby

Notes:

Recorded at NMH, Oslo, May 2001.
Mastered at Strype Audio.
Comes in a 3-fold digipak.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: 7 090001 610110

Shining 2003 Sweet Shanghai Devil

Label: Jazzland Records, Universal Music (Norway)
Catalog #: 038 266-2
Format : CD, Album
Country : Norway
Released : 2003
Genre : Jazz
Style : Contemporary Jazz
Audio : Flac (Image+Cue+Log+Scans)
Size : 300Mb

Tracklist:

1 Firewalker 2:42
2 Where Do You Go Christmas Eve 5:28
3 Jonathan Livingston Seagull 4:53
4 Sink 5:49
Composed By – Morten Qvenild
5 Shanghai Devil 3:53
6 Miserys Child 5:38
7 Cellofan Eyes 5:56
8 Reanimator-After Rain 9:17
Composed By – John Coltrane

Credits:

Acoustic Bass — Aslak Hartberg
Drums — Torstein Lofthus
Piano — Morten Qvenild
Producer — Bugge Wesseltoft , Sten Nilsen
Saxophone [Tenor], Flute — Jørgen Munkeby
Recorded By [Homemade Hallway Recording] — Audun "Phase Out" Borrmann, Even Ormestad, Morten Qvenild

Notes:

Packaged in a Digipak.
(P) 2003 JAZZLAND RECORDINGS. (C) 2003 UNIVERSAL MUSIC, NORWAY.
Recorded 2002 / 2003 in Oslo, Norway.

Shining 2005 In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster

Label: Rune Grammofon
Catalog #: RCD 2044
Format : CD, Album, Digipak
Country : Norway
Released : 24 Jan 2005
Genre : Jazz, Rock
Style : Art Rock, Contemporary Jazz
Audio : Flac (Image+Cue+Log+Scans)
Size : 237Mb

Tracklist:

01 Goretex Weather Report 5:00
02 Redrum 1:37
03 Romani 3:19
04 Perdurabo 3:02
Keyboards [Additional Synths] — Andreas Hessen Schei
05 Aleister Explains Everything 3:23
06 31=300=20 (It Is By Will Alone I Set My Mind In Motion) 4:24
07 Where Death Comes To Cry 2:22
08 The Smoking Dog 3:57
09 Magazine RWRK 6:32
French Horn — Kari Knardahl
Percussion [Gran Cassa, Tam-tam, Tubular Bells, Gongs] — Karl Ivar Refseth
Trombone — Michelle Lindboe
Trumpet — Sjur Miljeteig
10 You Can Try The Best You Can 5:21

Credits:

Bass [Acoustic, Electric], Drum Programming, Percussion, Featuring [Handclaps] — Aslak Hartberg
Drums, Percussion — Torstein Lofthus
Engineer — Kåre Christoffer Vestrheim , Michael Hartung
Keyboards [Rhodes, Synths, Clavinet, Celesta, Casio Sampler, Mellotron], Piano, Drum Programming — Morten Qvenild
Producer — Peder Kjellsby , Sjur Miljeteig
Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet, Flute [Akai Ewi], Acoustic Guitar, Guitar [Electric], Bass [Electric], Keyboards [Rhodes, Synths, Mellotron, Harmonium, Celesta], Piano, Accordion, Organ [Church], Vocals, Effects, Drum Programming — Jørgen Munkeby

Shining 2007 Grindstone

Label: Rune Grammofon
Catalog #: RCD 2060 PROMO
Format : CD, Album, Promo
Country : Norway
Released : 29 Jan 2007
Genre : Jazz, Rock
Style : Art Rock, Hard Rock, Jazz-Rock
Audio : Flac (Image+Cue+Log+Scans)
Size : 277Mb

Tracklist:

01 In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster 5:40
02 Winterreise 3:33
03 Stalemate Longan Runner 4:15
Composed By — Andreas Hessen Schei
04 To Be Proud Of Crystal Colors Is To Live Again 0:49
05 Moonchild Mindgames 3:06
06 The Red Room 2:16
07 Asa Nisi Masa 1:52
08 To Be Proud Of Crystal Colors Is To Live Again 1:09
09 Psalm 7:20
Organ [Church Organ] — Kristoffer Myre Eng
Voice [Soprano] — Åshild Skin Refsdal
10 -... .- -.-. .... 2:07
11 1:4:9 5:03
Voice [Soprano] — Åshild Skin Refsdal
12 Fight Dusk With Dawn 6:53

Credits:

Artwork By [Cover] — Kim Hiorthøy
Gong — Danny Young (tracks: 1, 3, 12)
Mixed By — Kåre Chr. Vestrheim , Mike Hartung
Mixed By [Assistant] — Hasse Rosbach
Performer — Andreas Hessen Schei , Morten Strøm , Torstein Lofthus
Performer, Composed By — Jørgen Munkeby
Producer — Kåre Chr. Vestrheim
Recorded By — Kåre Chr. Vestrheim , Mike Hartung
Recorded By [Additional], Edited By, Performer [All Instruments By] — Shining (2)
Recorded By [Assistant], Edited By [Additional] — Hasse Rosbach
Recorded By [Church Organ Guerilla] — Jonas Howden Sjøvaag

Shining 2010 Blackjazz

Label: Indie Recordings
Catalog# : INDIE045CD
Format : CD, Album
Country : Norway
Released : 25th January 2010
Genre : Jazz, Rock
Style : Jazz-Rock, Black Metal, Hard Rock
Audio : Flac (Image+Cue+Log+Scans)
Size : 466Mb

Tracklist:

01. The Madness and the Damage Done 5:20
02. Fisheye 5:08
03. Exit Sun 8:36
04. Exit Sun 0:57
05. HEALTER SKELTER 5:35
06. The Madness and the Damage Done 3:24
07. Blackjazz Deathtrance 10:52
08. Omen 8:46
Vocals – Grutle Kjellson
09. 21st Century Schizoid Man 8:41
Vocals – Grutle Kjellson
Written-By – Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, Michael Rex Giles, Peter John Sinfield, Robert Fripp

Credits:

Artwork By [Cover By] — Trine + Kim
Bass — Kreken
Drums — Lofthus
Guitar — Hermansen
Keyboards, Synthesizer — Moen
Mastered By — Tom Baker
Mixed By — Sean Beavan
Photography — Alexander Benjaminsen
Vocals, Guitar, Saxophone — Munkeby
Written-By — Munkeby (tracks: 1 to 8)