Exploratory release from Norwegian guitar maestra.
Since 2011 guitarist Hedvig Mollestad has been setting the fretboard alight with her trio’s incendiary mixture of heavy rock and fleet-fingered jazz licks. Recent collaborations have seen her working in larger settings such as the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra for 2022’s Maternity Beat and her own expanded ensemble on Ekhidna.
On this venture, she’s gone back to the three-piece format, though this time with keyboardist Ståle Storløkken, late of Supersilent and Motorpsycho, and expressive drummer Ole Mofjell on drums. Unlike her regular trio, the vibe here is more open-ended as befits an improvised session. Mollestad’s imaginative leaps cut straight to the chase with pulse-quickening bursts of light and shade. At nearly 22 minutes, I’ll Give You Twentyone typifies the deep listening as they each plug…
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