Blending jazz, electronic, and ambient music, Nils Petter Molvær brings a suspended, cinematic soundscape to the LAC. With his own band, the Norwegian trumpeter crafts intense and immersive musical landscapes, in which improvisation, sound design, and electronic music intertwine to form a personal language that has redefined the boundaries of contemporary jazz.
A central figure in European jazz over the past few decades, Nils Petter Molvær has developed a musical path that defies simple categorization, positioning himself at the intersection of improvisation, electronic music, and experimental sound. Since the 1990s, his work has made a decisive contribution to the emergence of a hybrid language that intertwines jazz, ambient, dub, and post-rock, while consistently maintaining a strong expressive identity.
A pivotal point in this journey was the album *Khmer*
, which marked a turning point in his career by introducing a new relationship between the trumpet and electronics and opening up new perspectives for jazz in the digital realm. Since then, Molvær has built a recognizable sonic universe, characterized by essential melodic lines and a continuous exploration of timbre.
Alongside Jo Berger Myhre on bass and Erland Dahlen on drums, his music unfolds in open forms that are in constant transformation. The interaction between the three instruments generates dense, layered soundscapes, balancing composition and improvisation, while the work on sound—in which Sven Persson’s sound design plays a central role—becomes an integral part of the listening experience.
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Credits
trumpet and electronics
Nils Petter Molvær
bass and electronics
Jo Berger Myhre
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Erland Dahlen
sound design
Sven Persson