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01. JONO EL GRANDE - Eva's Horse Dance
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02. JONO EL GRANDE - Vidda-Dixie
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03. JONO EL GRANDE - Cha
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04. JONO EL GRANDE - Vital Requiem VII
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05. JONO EL GRANDE - Asia
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06. JONO EL GRANDE - I'm A Balloon I
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07. JONO EL GRANDE - Tango Dob'zanga
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08. JONO EL GRANDE - I'm A Balloon II
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09. JONO EL GRANDE - Pongery In Evention
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10. JONO EL GRANDE - Ode To Arne Nordheim
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11. JONO EL GRANDE - Rapphoenss
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12. JONO EL GRANDE - Pfote-Brei
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13. JONO EL GRANDE - Chai-Niese Blooeze II
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14. JONO EL GRANDE - Avoiding A Void
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15. JONO EL GRANDE - Twelve Finger Intestinal Tango
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16. JONO EL GRANDE - Utopian Dance
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17. JONO EL GRANDE - Vital Requiem IV
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18. JONO EL GRANDE - The Lobotomized Healers Rise & Fall
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19. JONO EL GRANDE - The Lobotomized Healers Comeback
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20. JONO EL GRANDE - Chai-Niese Blooeze III
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21. JONO EL GRANDE - Smother Eve
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22. JONO EL GRANDE - Sweet Blood
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23. JONO EL GRANDE - Turbo Meuz
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24. JONO EL GRANDE - Dance Of The Skin-Eating Witch
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25. JONO EL GRANDE - Eva's Horse Dance (demo)
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26. JONO EL GRANDE - Turbo Meuz (original version)
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27. JONO EL GRANDE - Assen Gare Med Morra Ri'a?
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28. JONO EL GRANDE - Big Ben Dover
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ARTIST
JONO EL GRANDE
TITLE
The Choko King
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
RUNE ARKIV
CATALOG #
RALP 307LP
RALP 307LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
1/31/2012
LP version; limited, numbered edition of 300 copies.
The Choko King
by
Jono El Grande
features recordings from the period between 1995 and 2008, some of which pre-dates his first album by four years. This album offers an open door into Jono's surrealistic musical universe and is a rare gift to his increasing number of fans and anyone interested in the workings of a truly eccentric and artistic mind. The album has been meticulously assembled from home recordings, demos, rehearsal tapes, live and studio recordings and made into a completely new work by Jono himself. Jono El Grande is a self-taught composer, musician, conductor and prankster and remains an outsider on the far margin of the Norwegian experimental music scene. He released his debut mini-album
Utopian Dances
in 1999, a collection of absurdist instrumentals recorded at home using not much more than a workstation synth. 2003 saw the release of
Fevergreens
(RCD 2031CD), an album that drew upon classic progressive rock, film music, easy listening and a variety of pop idioms and featured a nine-piece orchestra.
The Wire
noted that "the vitality of his writing keeps just the right uplifting balance between sweetness and acidity" and called it "a pleasant surprise." Next up was
Neo Dada
(RCD 2084CD/RLP 3084LP) in 2009, an album brimming with musical adventure, odd turns, weird combinations of sounds and instruments, complex signatures and a good portion of pure joy, all mysteriously sugared with infectious melodic hooks.
Neo Dada
represented something of an artistic breakthrough and received great reviews everywhere. This was followed by
Phantom Stimulance
(RCD 2106CD/RLP 3106LP) in late 2010. The sleeve paintings on
The Choko King
are by acknowledged Norwegian artist
Christer Karlstad
and show The Choko King, intentionally misspelled to point to the megalomaniac's hubris: to choke on what you desire the most. Printed innersleeve includes nerdy details about each track from Jono.
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