Album Interview: RYMDEN: Space Sailors

Bugge Westeltoff

You can only make a first impression once, and RYMDEN’s debut album, Reflections and Odysseys, was always going to be...

Reviewed in issue October/2020

Eivind Aarset/Jan Bang: Snow Catches on her Eyelashes

Jan Bang | Nils Petter Molvaer | Ardun Erlien | Eivind Aarset | Erik Honoré | Audun Eirlen | Hilde Norbakken | Sidsel Endresen | Anders Engen

There’s a cut from this duo’s last album, Dream Logic, called ‘The Beauty of Decay’, and that could easily describe...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Mosambique: Big City Moves

Led by keyboardist Ivan Blomqvist, Mosambique are an expansive sounding quintet capturing a head-nodding yet unspectacular Oslo-based melting pot of...

Reviewed in issue August/2019

Now Vs. Now: The Buffering Cocoon

Sasha Masakowski | Jason Lindner | Steve Wall | Justin Tyson | Natasha Diggs | Panagiotis Andreou

Jason Lindner's two-decade evolution from brainiac NYC keyboardist to synth lord has been fascinating to witness, not least as his...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Solveig Slettahjell: Live at Victoria

Solveig Slettahjell | Pal Hausken

Any new recording by the Norwegian vocalist, pianist and composer Solveig Slettahjell is a huge cause for celebration, especially one...

Reviewed in issue June/2018

Rohey: A Million Things

Gilles Peterson fans listen up: this is an impressive young gospel-infuenced, first album from Amy Winehouse-ish, Trondheim Jazzorkester singer Rohey...

Reviewed in issue July/2017

Bugge Wesseltoft: Somewhere In between

Dhafer Youssef | Håkon Kornstad | Joshua Redman | Erik Truffaz | Bugge Wesseltoft | Dan Berglund | Sidsel Endresen | Mari Bone

When Bugge Wesseltoft was at the forefront of the ‘Nu-Jazz’ craze that swept Europe in the late 1990s and early...

Reviewed in issue February/2017

Beady Belle: On My Own

Torun Eriksen | Audun Sandvik | Beady Belle | Anja Martime Mørk | Mathias Eick | Joshua Redman | Fran Cathcart | Bugge Wesseltoft | Gregory Hutchinson | Reuben Rogers

Beady Belle – a collaboration between vocalist Beate Lech and bassist and future husband Marius Reksjø – made their Jazzland...

Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Håkon Kornstad: Tenor Battle

Per Zanussi | Sigbjørn Apeland | Lars Henrik Johansen | Håkon Kornstad

There’s a sense of irony about the title to the new CD by Håkon Kornstad, the Norwegian saxophonist formerly of...

Reviewed in issue February/2016

Beady Belle: Songs From A Decade: The Best of Beady Belle

Beate S. Lech | David Wallumrød | Erik Holm | Jørn Øien | Marius Reksjø

Penning memorable, adeptly arranged songs and fronted by their charismatic co-founder, Beate S. Lech, Beady Belle are one of Norway's...

Reviewed in issue August/2015