Музыка и песни Hedvig Mollestad Trio / Hedvig Mollestad Trio на CD

Together with drummer Ivar Loe Bjornstad and bassist Ellen Brekken, and recording with an eight-track tape machine, her Trio turn the full force of heavy rock and electric jazz to demonic purposes. It can be sledgehammer sludge, stoned to a crawl as on "Arigato, Bitch'. Or it's nimble as a phantom on astapopoulos', a dizzying churn that's named after the archvillain of Hergé's Tintin cartoons. And for the Mollestad Trio at its intuitive, ESP-connected finest, check "Liquid Bridges'. "Laughing John" gestures towards the great Mahavishnu Orchestra guitarist as well as a music teacher, named Jon, who heavily influenced Hedvig's development. The album's fine balance between looseness and control follows a year of world touring, and tracks reflect such odd venues as "La Boule Noire', a former Portuguese disco in Paris whose walls are studded with bullets from a gangland shootout. Enfant Terrible follows the Trio's previous Rune Grammofon releases, the Spellemann (Norwegian Grammy) nominated All Of Them Witches (2013) and Shoot! (2011) and, like labelmates Bushman's Revenge, Elephant9 and Grand General, represent a thrilling new progressive wave of Norwegian avant rock/free metal energy. Don't be fooled by the deceptively innocent portrait of Hedvig herself on the front cover - a rare example of designer Kim Hiorthoy working with classic black and white photography, and an unusual departure from Rune Grammofon's familiar digipacks Style: Prog Rock

A young trio of gifted Norwegian musicians with one foot in heavy rock and one in jazz. Hedvig (28), Ellen (26) and Ivar (29) are all from the districts but met at the music academy in Oslo. Hedvig asked them to join her after receiving the Jazz Talent of Style: Jazz

Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen is a guitar heroine for our times. Her molten, overdriven guitar sound is forged in the same fiery furnace as Hendrix, Tony Iommi, Jimmy Page, then plunged into a steaming vat of free jazz in the Sonny Sharrock/Fred Frith mould. In tracks like "The Rex" and "Lake Acid", you'll hear the megalithic riffology of LED ZEPPELIN's "Kashmir" and "Rock'N'Roll", but with an agility and intensity peculiar to the dark Northern regions where she and her bandmates were raised. "All Of Them Witches" follows the previous 2011 Rune Grammofon release of HEDVIG MOLLESTAD TRIO, "Shoot!", and like labelmates ELEPHANT9 and GRAND GENERAL, represent a thrilling new progressive wave of Norwegian avant rock/free metal energy. This latest batch of electrifying instrumentals was recorded live in the island environment of Ocean Sound studio, a grass-roofed wooden barn on the edge of the Norwegian Sea fitted with state of the art equipment, where HEDVIG MOLLESTAD TRIO could swim in the freezing waters before breakfast and stretch their gaze out to the horizon in mid-take. It's no surprise that such widescreen surroundings should give rise to epic concepts, and the title of first track "Sing, Goddess" takes its name from the opening line of Homer's Iliad. Inspired by the wide open skies, "Shawshank" and "Ghrá Rúnda" are more reflective pieces, bathed in controlled feedback. Personnel: Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen - guitar, Ellen Brekken - bass, Ivar Loe Bjornstad - drums Style: Jazz