release date: 19.04.2024 on Rune Grammofon
After a solid run of five studio albums and two double live albums, Psychedelic Backfire I and II, (both 2019),Elephant9 had taken their groovy mix of high energy rock and power jazz as far as they could. In this respect their previous album Arrival of The New Elders (2021) came as a welcome and most timely addition to their recorded output. More varied, mature and reflective, they were as groovy as ever, but more structured and less jam oriented.
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.
release date: 14.04.2023 on Rune Grammofon
Now in its 14th year, the unique and constantly evolving Fire! Orchestra is back with their largest line-up so far, counting an international cast of no less than 43 members that includes mainstay singer Mariam Wallentin as well as newcomers David Sandström and Joe McPhee, both on vocals, McPhee also on tenor sax.
Hedvig Mollestad & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra will release Maternity Beat on November 18th via Rune Grammofon and today shares the propulsive “All Flights Cancelled” to announce the release.
The Norwegian jazz scene has it all: cutting edge-contemporary, orchestral and vocal jazz, jazz rock…and a growing audience, jostling and responding to the music while getting younger and younger. It has a background in folk music, with original instruments and sounds, traditions carried forward and transformed by the people of today. It has a classical music heritage with prominent composers who have left a deep mark. All of this has pushed the nation’s music… ANNE YVEN
release date: 03.06.2022 on Rune Grammofon
Fast & Furious FIRE! Trio releases their latest Requiēs EP , with Stephen O’Malley & David Sandtröm, the first thing from the last year’s Defeat. Swedish Trio led by multi reed player Mats Gustafsson and completed by Johan Berthling on electric bass and Andreas Werliin on drums needs no further introduction to the fans of unpredictable, ferocious Scandinavian jazz. The limited to 1000 copies vinyl pressing had been sold out in just few days and became unavailable since three months to the official launch time. Impressive, huh ?
release date: 03.06.2022 on Rune Grammofon
In 2021, Oslo’s nyMusikk‘s annual festival of sound, “Only Connect”, commissioned an interpretation from I LIKE TO SLEEP of the first movement of Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalila symphony.
release date: 29.04.2022 on Rune Grammofon
as rhythmically engaging as it is lyrically compelling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ JAZZ JOURNAL
The allegiance ti Keith Jarrett is clear throughout this haunting suite of originals. ★ ★ ★ ★ JAZZWISE
a very satisfying set from a very fine trio LONDONJAZZNEWS
Rune Grammofon release Kjetil Mulelid Trio‘s Who Do You Love The Most? on CD and DL on the 29th April 2022.
release date: 29.04.2022 on Rune Grammofon
Rune Grammofon release Espen Eriksen Trio‘s In the Mountain on CD and DL on the 29th April 2022. The album features British saxophonist Andy Sheppard on three of the seven tracks.
release date: 25.03.2022 on Rune Grammofon
The band describe themselves as a spaced out, instrumental lounge-rock outfit, with added elements of folk music, jazzy surf, psychedelia, free improvised chill-out, jangly post-rock and travelling bass. Not much for us to add here, apart from possibly a pinch of krautrock.
