- Nils Petter Molvær
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Nils Petter Molvaer at Moers Festival 2006, Germany
Nils Petter Molvær (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈmol.væɾ][1]) also known as NPM (born September 18, 1960) is a Norwegian jazz trumpeter, composer, and producer. Molvær is considered a pioneer in fusing jazz and electronic music, showcased on his best-selling album Khmer,[2] released by the German record label ECM in October 1997 in Europe and early 1998 in North America.
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Biography
Molvær was born and grew up on the island of Sula, Norway, and left at the age of nineteen to study music at the conservatory in Trondheim. He joined the band Masqualero, alongside Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen and Tore Brunborg. Masqualero (named after a Wayne Shorter composition originally recorded by Miles Davis) recorded several albums for ECM Records, and Molvær recorded with other ECM artists before his 1997 debut solo album, Khmer. The record was a fusion of jazz, rock, electronic soundscapes, and hip-hop beats – and quite unlike the delicate "chamber jazz" typically associated with ECM.[3] Molvær's muted trumpet sound, sometimes electronically processed, had an obvious debt to Miles Davis's work of the 1970s and 1980s, but without being a slavish copy. For the first time, ECM released singles - "Song of Sand", backed with three remixes, and "Ligotage". In 2000, a second album followed, Solid Ether, after which Molvær left ECM. He has recorded several albums since, and has also produced film and theater music.
He often working with guitarist Eivind Aarset.
Discography
In Masqualero
- 1985: Bande À Part[4]
- 1987: Aero
- 1990: Re-Enter
Solo
Original albums
- 1997: Khmer
- 2000: Solid Ether
- 2002: NP3
- 2005: Er [5]
- 2005: Edy (soundtrack to the film by Guérin-Tillié)
- 2008: Re-Vision (OST outtakes merged into an album) [6]
- 2009: Hamada [7]
- 2011: Baboon moon
Reprise albums
- 2001: Recoloured (remixes)
- 2004: Streamer (2002, live versions of previous tracks)
- 2005: Remakes (remixes)
- 2005: An American Compilation(compilation)
With others
- 1990: So I Write (Sidsel Endresen)
- 1990: Nonsentration (Jon Balke)
- 1993: Exile (Sidsel Endresen)
- 1994: Small Labyrinths (Marilyn Mazur)
- 1995: Hastening Westward (Robyn Schulkowsky and Nils Petter Molvær)
- 2001: Radioaxiom – A Dub Transmission (Bill Laswell and Jah Wobble)
- 2003: Electra (Arild Andersen)
- 2004: Seafarer's Song (Ketil Bjørnstad)
- 2007: A Pure Land (Sienna)
- 2007: Ataraxis (Deeyah)
- 2008: Dome (Johannes Enders)
- 2008: Corps Electriques (Hector Zazou)
Also appears on
- 2011: Beginner's Guide to Scandinavia (3CD set)
References
- ^ Pronounced approximately "MOL-vair".
- ^ Genzel, Christian. "Khmer: Review". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/khmer-r368277. Retrieved 2010-12-16.
- ^ Geoff Dyer in The Observer
- ^ Also listed as Bande à Part and Bande à part.
- ^ The title is er, the common suffix for the names of the tracks ("Hover", "Softer", "Dancer", etc.) and their author.
- ^ Re-Vision press release
- ^ Hamada info
External links
- Nils Petter Molvær at NilsPetterMolvaer.info (official website)
- Nils Petter Molvær at Hopper Management (bio, sounds, reviews)
- Nils Petter Molvær at Allmusic
- Nils Petter Molvær at the Internet Movie Database
- Nils Petter Molvær discography at Discogs
- Nils Petter Molvær live in Salzburg, Austria 2005 (photos, JavaScript and Flash required)
- *Flowd - artist channel on *Flowd network.
Categories:- Jazz composers
- Jazz fusion musicians
- Spellemannprisen winners
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Norwegian jazz musicians
- Norwegian jazz trumpeters
- ECM artists
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