Think YOUR BAND is Progressive? Meet Norway's SHINING // Into the Machine

Jørgen Munkeby talks playing a show on a cliff in Norway, how he created the perfect saxophone tone for Metal and the unusual evolution of Shining's music. Progressive with a capital P.
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[@perpetualgrimace]

You aren't truly progressive unless you started out as a jazz quartet and now play industrial music on top of a cliff 🙄

[@danmihut1481]

strange how you erase an entire part of shining's albums. what about the fact that they comes from jazz and merging elements from king crimson to dillinger escaoe plan they melted metal and jazz and gave new approaches in modern rock? are you listening what jorgen translates from coltrane to metal jazz or just you get that "industrial production" and think that's all? it seems you haven't listened the interview, sorry

[@perpetualgrimace]

@@danmihut1481 sir I'm not going to defend whatever joke I was making 5 years ago because I don't remember the context, but I guarantee I didn't mean for anyone to take the comment too seriously

[@ramoncardinali]

Love Shining and their music! But I don't fully agree with his critics on prog rock/metal. Shining itself isn't that prog anymore, by the way.

[@airixxxx]

The last album wasn't that's right, they may be trying to reach a wider audience, but to me he's right about prog rock/metal, it has become a genre of music with it's templates and limitations, just like Punk has for example a certain set of rules, same for prog.

[@toprak3479]

Jorgen is so prog, he listens to concept albums on shuffle

[@chucktaylor6939]

Sad this only has 4k views. Very interesting

[@markuselipka]

haha! totally agree with him in case of `progressive metal` bands. aside of a very few exceptions. on the other hand, i wonder why shining lately changed into a pretty `standard rock` direction. it may be a challange to play it for a person who is used to play complex demanding stuff, but after all u have to like it to play it. it`s not about the simplicity, it`s about being `standard` and less or even non unique.

[@toprak3479]

Don't worry, he'll probably be playing classical music or something in a few years.

[@franlovelsimic8421]

I love Jorgen's style of playing so much, his sax work is amazing, Ihsahn wouldn't be Ihsahn if Jorgen wouldn't appear every now and then :P Love your vids

[@FreqsTV]

thanks! agreed. was happy to finally discover the guy behind that Sax!

[@rmal88]

Dude. That sounds fucking incredible! Wow! Great episode!

[@FreqsTV]

highly recommended Raja!! thanks =-)

[@rmal88]

Could you please tell me the name of their jazz quartet album?

[@FreqsTV]

from the Wiki: Their first album, Where the Ragged People Go, was released 5 November 2001.[14] At a time when the young Norwegian jazz scene was dominated by future jazz, as pioneered by Bugge Wesseltoft and Nils Petter Molvær, Shining received a lot of attention by playing modern and energetic acoustic jazz. Their music especially contrasted that of Jaga Jazzist, a band of which Jørgen Munkeby had been a member since 1994.[15] The band's John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman-inspired sound[6][14] was further developed on their second album, Sweet Shanghai Devil, released by Jazzland Recordings in 2003. Their music became freer, incorporating more elements from outside the jazz idiom, but remained entirely acoustic.

[@rmal88]

Thank you! It seems it isn't on Spotify or iTunes store to purchase :( Listening to International BlackJazz Society. Great stuff man. Thanks once again for helping me discover great prog music.

[@FreqsTV]

Yes, i suppose the first few albums would be more "obscure". I haven't heard them either. I have everything from BlackJazz forward. Love it.

[@silkroad1201]

Calabi Yau is a better example of sax in metal

[@ximontrespalacios1257]

"This video is not available."

[@FreqsTV]

which country are you in? i dont see any restrictions except that its "not available on some mobile devices".

[@FreqsTV]

ok, I believe the issue is that your mobile device doesnt want to play ads. Im working on that on my end but there could be a delay. try searching the video in the KZbin app or watch on a desktop, if thats a solution for you. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

[@ximontrespalacios1257]

FreqsTV I'm in Colombia, using the YT app on my iPad. This is the only video of yours that has me "blocked", the rest go just fine

[@FreqsTV]

ok thanks. yes one of our team members in the Netherlands also had a problem on mobile. i think its an ad thing. trying to solve it. Sorry!

[@lucamartinezbergamin8804]

Video not available :/

[@ThatShitGood]

Vikings playing prog metal, i dig it.