Experimental

Arbor
Splashgirl

Second album from youngsters Splashgirl see them re-inventing themselves from a piano trio in the European jazz tradition to a ”band” in a more boundry-less musical landscape some place between ambient, experimental rock, jazz, and contemporary music. It is still improvised acoustic music, but it definitely sounds quite different.
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Balls & Kittens, Draught And Strangling Rain
Jæ

We are proud to be able to present JÆ’s stunning debut album ‘Balls and Kittens, Draught and Strangling Rain’. JÆ is a solo project from the very talented Dutch musician, songwriter and singer Jessica Sligter, who has divided her time between Oslo and Amsterdam in recent years.
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Border Woods
Frode Haltli

Accordionist and composer Frode Haltli follows up last year’s acclaimed Hubrorelease, ‘Avant Folk’, with a smaller-scale yet equally inspired album that is built once again on the combination of traditional Nordic folk forms with influences drawn from world music and contemporary composition/improvisation. In some ways, ‘Border Woods’ is both folkier and more ‘avant’ than its predecessor. The reduction in the size of the ensemble, from a dectet to a quartet, creates a corresponding increase in intensity, while Haltli frequently divides the unit further, using the two matched pairs of performers separately for a number of duo sequences. As the band expands and contracts in response to the demands of each tune, the music veers from cool, meditative explorations at the outer reaches of sound, to full-on pentatonic grooves and folk-rocky, foot-tapping jams.
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Bow Shoulder
Hunstville

Once the curious listener digs into the music on Bow Shoulder it becomes difficult not to ask why it’s taken a decade for its impeccable contents to see the light of day. The recording was made in Chicago at the Loft—the studio and rehearsal space of Wilco, the exploratory rock combo, whose members Nels Cline (guitar) and Glenn Kotche (percussion) contributed to this album—the day after Huntsville performed in the city’s Millennium Park, sharing a bill with On Fillmore, Kotche’s duo with bassist Darin Gray. That evening Cline and Kotche joined Huntsville for the final part of its set. In the studio Huntsville’s Ivar Grydeland, Ingar Zach, and Tonny Kluften were joined at the Loft by Cline, Kotche, Gray and keyboardist Yuka Honda (co-founder of Cibo Matto and an accomplished composer) for a fully improvised session.
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Collab
Labfield

Slow-floating improvised acoustic drone rich in details performed live by the masterly duo Labfield and guests Ståle Storløkken (Supersilent), Mariam Wallentin (Wildbirds & Peacedrums) and Giuseppe Ielasi. The two powerfull tracks that makes up Labfield´s second album was recorded at Kongsberg Jazz Festival and at Musikkhögskolan in Stockholm in 2008.
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Collage
Erlend Apneseth Trio

Remarkable improvisations in Erlend Apneseth Trio’s new album ‘Collage’ are a rush of creative excess.
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Dust Breathing
Møster!

For their fifth release in a ten-year period with the Hubro label, Norwegian supergroup Møster! follow up the acclaimed double vinyl album of 2018, ‘States of Mind’, with a thrilling distillation of the group’s trademark take-no-prisoners approach. Over six intensely-worked tracks-including an absolutely epic opening number, ’The Bonfire, The Sun’, that seems destined to become a band classic-the regular Møster! quartet plus legendary sound sculptor/mixer Jørgen Træen create a startling amalgam of collective improvisation and virtuoso soloing that’s overflowing with ideas and crackling with excess energy.
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Exits Into A Corridor
Exoterm

Recorded over two days in Brooklyn in January 2018, Exoterm’s ‘Exits into a Corridor’ presents a new Norway/US supergroup playing compositions by bassist Rune Nergaard that mix thrashy, take-no-prisoners improv with dreamy, electronically-assisted soundscapes. Tough, muscular bass riffs from Nergaard and blasting, out-there saxophonics from Kristoffer Berre Alberts are complemented by the complex, multi-faceted musical personalities of drummer Jim Black and guitarist Nels Cline-both total legends in their field-to produce a distinctively edgy blend of influences and attributes.
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For Renstemt Klaver
Jo David Meyer Lysne

In “For renstemt klaver”, Lysne joins a legacy of musical tinkerers developing the self-playing piano not as a means of reproducing what a human performer can do, but rather as a sonic world of its own, producing computer-enabled music that eludes human capability.
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Fragmentarium
Erlend Apneseth

“I want it to feel like the past, the present and the future, all at the same time” Erlend Apneseth. Hardanger-fiddler, composer and bandleader Erlend Apneseth follows up the acclaimed 2019 Hubro release, ‘Salika, Molika’ – a game-changing folk-meets-experimental-sound project where Apneseth’s regular trio was augmented by the addition of star accordionist Frode Haltli – with the richly collaborative ‘Fragmentarium’.
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Hárr
Benedicte Maurseth

Ein hyllest til dyreliv og fjellfolk frå Benedicte Maurseths heimtrakter i Hardanger.
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Kroksjø
Jo David Meyer Lysne

The new album by the partnership of guitarist Jo David Meyer Lysne (born 1994) and double bassist Mats Eilertsen (born 1975) is a remarkable document that functions simultaneously as both a calm and meditative series of chill-out soundscapes, and as a rigorously poetic evocation of mood and place that one might expect to hear more readily in an art gallery installation.
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Krympende klode
Stein Urheim & Jørgen Træen

Krympende klode is a new collaboration between two internationally recognised musicians from Bergen, Norway: music producer Jørgen Træen, who has worked with talents such as Susanne Sundfør, Thea Hjelmeland and Jazkamer, and the unique and eternally inventive guitarist Stein Urheim, whose releases include 6 albums on the HUBRO label. On this album they present their personal collections of synthesisers and string instruments from all over the world, and let the space between the electronic and the analogue shrink to fit between the grooves of an LP.
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Many
Christian Wallumrød Ensemble

Old-school musique concrete interludes and electronic add-ons mark the revered Ensemble’s masterly new album, which both summarises their unique career so far, and jumps boldly into the unknown.
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More Human
Splashgirl

(Norsk) “More Human” er det et syvende albumet fra Splashgirl, et samarbeid med sanger/lydkunstner Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe og produsent Randall Dunn. Albumtittelen “More Human” utforsker menneskets plass i et samfunn som i stadig større grad er prisgitt teknologi, hvor kunstnere allerede møter direkte konkurranse fra kunstig intelligens.
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Radio Yonder
Mats Eilertsen

Exciting new album from bass player Mats Eilertsen new quartet featuring a superb cast of musicians. ”Radio Yonder” is his best and maybe most accessible album to date.
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