Møster!
Møster!
Genres: jazz, free jazz, experimental, improvisation, norwegian
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About Møster!
MØSTER! is the brainchild of Kjetil Traavik MØSTER, a jazz (primarily) musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist (with tenor, soprano and baritone saxophones, clarinet and bass clarinet as his main instruments), hailing from Bergen, Norway. After getting training in accordion and cornet from the age of six, while also playing tuba and electric guitar at an early age, MØSTER was, from the age of 14, schooled on bass, and later also on saxophone, which was his main instrument in his studies at the Trondheim Jazz Conservatory, where he founded his first trio, MÖSTER, and later joined bassist Per ZANUSSI's ZANUSSI FIVE. In 2005 he appeared at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival for the first time, and after touring the US with TRONDHEIM JAZZ ORCHESTRA in 2006 he was voted 'International Young Jazz Talent of the Year' by the organisations IJFO and IAJE. MØSTER has throughout his career played music of various genres and styles, and been part of several bands and projects, including electro-rockers DATAROCK (permanent member) and glam rockers KING MIDAS, as well as touring with Norwegian rapper Lars VAULAR and the Nordic electronica/pop collaboration of RÖYKSOPP & ROBYN. He has never been out of the jazz loop for too long though. Over the years he's been a member of a myriad of jazz and jazz-rock outfits, including THE CORE, TRINITY, GIBRISH, BRAT, MZN3, and his own K.M. SEXTET, which is based on MZN3 (MØSTER, ZANUSSI, and Swedish drummer Kjell NORDESON), but also includes drummer Morten J. OLSEN (ULTRALYD), bassist Ingebrigt HÅKER FLATEN (SCORCH TRIO) and guitarist Anders HANA (ULTRALYD, JAGA JAZZIST). He's also been involved in projects with the likes of Chick COREA, Pat METHENY, Paal NILSSEN-LOVE (SCORCH TRIO), Bugge WESSELTOFT, Jon CHRISTENSEN and, most recently, Jeff PARKER and John HERNDON of TORTOISE. To prog rock fans he's probably best known for being a member of Norwegian jazz-krautrock outfit ULTRALYD (from 2005 onwards, his first album appearance with them was 2007's "Conditions for a Piece of Music") and for his powerful sax outbursts on MOTORPSYCHO and Ståle STORLØKKEN's masterpiece "The Death Defying Unicorn", where he peformed as a member of TRONDHEIM JAZZ ORCHESTRA. He's also toured with one Norwegian progressive fusion act, BUSHMAN'S REVENGE, and in the summer of 2015 he played with another, KROKOFANT, at Kongsberg Jazz Festival. When invited to the 2010 Kongsberg Jazz Fesitval, he formed the band MØSTER!, a jazz-prog supergroup of sorts, initially concisting of, besides MØSTER, keyboardist Ståle STORLØKKEN (SUPERSILENT, ELEPHANT9, BOX, HUMCRUSH), bassist Nikolai HÆNGSLE EILERTSEN (ELEPHANT9, BIGBANG, NEEDLEPOINT) and drummer Kenneth KAPSTAD (MOTORPSYCHO, GRAND GENERAL). This marked MØSTER's return to jazz after several years of extensive touring with DATAROCK. The following year his solo album debut, "Blow Job", was released on +3dB Records, as part of a series of 5 albums, each containing one artist playing one instrument, titled 'Music for One'. The music on "Blow Job" can be described as free avant jazz. 2011 was also the year MØSTER!'s first album, "Edvard Lygre Møster", was recorded, live at the Victoria - National Jazz Scene in Oslo. The album was released on Hubro in 2013. The following year saw the release of MØSTER!'s first studio album, "Inner Earth", where MØSTER had tweaked his ensemble by replacing STORLØKKEN with guitarist Hans Magnus "Snah" RYAN (MOTORPSYCHO). In 2014 MØSTER also collaborated with JÜ for the Hungarian powerjazz trio's full length album debut, "Jü Meets Møster", as well as RYAN and STORLØKKEN again, along with drummer Thomas STRØNEN (HUMCRUSH, FOOD), for the recording of the debut album of the STRØNEN and STORLØKKEN lead krautrock/free jazz combo REFLECTIONS IN COSMO (released in January 2017), as well as live performances under the same name. The following year MØSTER! released their second studio album, "When You Cut Into the Present". According to MØSTER!'s label, Hubro, MØSTER's goal with the band is "to place the artistic style and intensity of his hero John COLTRANE in a modern context". All three of their albums can be described as dark and energetic, lying in the musical landscape somewhere between fusion, krautrock and avant jazz, but where "Edvard Lygre Møster" is explosive and hectic, dominated by (beside MØSTER's sax, of course) STORLØKKENS driving keys, which sometimes brings to mind the 70's inspired heavy jazz rock of ELEPHANT9, "Inner Earth" is more searching and subtle, where themes are build to a climax in, at times, almost zeuhl-ish fashion. On "When You Cut Into the Present" they returned to a more fusion based style. Imagine ELEPHANT9 with keys replaced by sax, sprinkled with krautrock à la ULTRALYD, with a nod or two to CAN, "Red" period KING CRIMSON and Norwegian fusion pioneers GARBAREK, RYPDAL, ANDERSEN & CHRISTENSEN, and you get a decent idea of what their latest release sounds like. MØSTER! comes highly recommended. Fans of the aforementioned John COLTRANE, ELEPHANT9, MOTORPSYCHO, ULTRALYD, CAN, KING CRIMSON, Jan GARBAREK and Terje RYPDAL, as well as Albert AYLER, John ZORN and MAGMA, should not give them a miss. Bio by The Bearded Bard (https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=9670)
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