07 Sep

[ September 8th, 2023 release on Rune Grammofon: Hedvig Mollestad – Weejuns ]

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release date: 08.09.2023 on Rune Grammofon

Never one to rest on her laurels and always eager to break new ground, it’s full steam ahead for guitarist Hedvig Mollestad when teaming up with sublime keyboard player Ståle Storløkken (Elephant9, Supersilent) and young drummer ace Ole Mofjell in a new trio bearing her name. Beautifully subtle and fiercely burning, Weejuns is a solid step into shimmering, hardcore improvisation and breathtaking instrumental interplay, a temporary move away from the composed music of her regular trio and the ensemble projects. It was not the intention, but with this in mind and great recordings of a handful of concerts, it made perfect sense to make the trio’s debut a double live album.

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04 Nov

[ November the 19th,2021 release via Rune Grammofon: Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Tempest Revisited ]

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release date: 19.11.2021 via Rune Grammofon

Hedvig Mollestad must surely be one of the hardest working musicians on the Norwegian music scene at the moment, with “Tempest Revisited” being her third album in a mere 18 months, all at a consistently high artistic level. Her first solo album, “Ekhidna” (2020), received a Spellemannpris (Norwegian Grammy), appeared on several jazz and rock best of the year lists and got her into Downbeat´s “25 for the future” selection. 

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12 Jun

[ Rune Grammofon – 6th of July 2020 release – Hedvig Mollestad – EKHIDNA ]

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Norwegian release date: 12.06.2020

Worldwide release date: 03.07.2020

via Rune Grammofon

Eknidna, the latest project from renowned Norwegian guitarist Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen, takes us further than her usual well recognized trio or her fronting performance with The Trondheim Jazz Orchestra. Here, doubled to the sextet band, equally spread between female & male powers with interesting instrumental approach challenges listeners, even those who already took regular trio as a grant. But like everything in life that also didn’t happen by an accident, even if certain amount of time have passed from the start. Lets get to the start then.

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