Concert reviews:
The Direction of the ”12 points! Festival”
Magnus fra Gaarden are young men in a hurry to find their own voice and
their mash up of anthemic melodies and wailing horns over riffing guitar
distortion and a beefy rhythm section is very likeable. In amongst the indie
rock, ska and surf guitar references, a coherent signature can be heard that
shows a band still very much within the jazz orbit. “
- Søren Friis, Jazzspecial (12 Points! Festival, Dublin)
"...the roof took off when the danish act Magnus fra Gaarden entered the
stage and blew the room down with a highly energetic and outward show"
Irish Times:
”With plenty of noise, over-driven blues and heavy metal in the mix, it's not
what most people would call jazz, but it's loud, exciting and a whole load of
fun!”
Henrik R. Hansen, soundvenue.com:
”Complex melodies were executed by various musicians at the same time but
never with an impact on the overall sound. Supertight , entertaining and deeply impressive. The judges all agreed that Magnus Fra Gaarden was the most original,
technically superior and intense experience of the evening.”
The words of the judges of the danish ”Young Jazz” final:
”A great musical experience. Humourous, joyous, unimpressed, nasty swinging and metrically advanced. Magnus Fra Gaarden played a mindblowing set! They have a great potential for the future and their expression combines such different genres as punk, ska, surf and jazz!”
CD-reviews
Thomas Michelsen, Politiken (Danish major newspaper)
“Imagine a mixture of heavyrock, punk, untraditional balkanfeelings and melancholic marchinstruments, making old experimentalists like John Zorn sound outdated.
… a top-talented, young Danish band.”
Sven Sorgenfrey, Financial Times:
4/5 stars.
“The band sounds like a heavy-metal band and a circuschapel under influence of medically ordinated substances. A very nice, complex, respectless, selfironic and gripping record. It is the perfect soundtrack if you are to sort parsnips in the field.”
Thomas Kohlruss, babyblue-seiten.de (Prog reviews):
“Thumps up for debut of the year.”
