Morten Mølster

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Morten Mølster (born March 31, 1962 , † January 14, 2013 ) was a Norwegian guitarist who was known in Norway as a member of the alternative rock band The September When , internationally but above all for his participation on Nils Petter Molvær's album Khmer .

Live and act

Morten Mølster played in the Circulasione Totale Orchestra in the 1980s (album Accent , with Audun Kleive , Kjell Arne Jensen , Eivin One Pedersen , Frode Gjerstad and John Stevens ). He was a member of The September When in the 1990s and was a member of the band between 1990 and 1996 (and again after they formed in 2008). Then he worked in public relations , but also as managing director (1999–2000) and chairman (2012–13) of the Stavanger Symfoniorkester . In the Stavanger area he was active in the music scene, for example as a co-organizer of the Maijazz festival . He died of a heart attack in early 2013 at the age of fifty .

Discographic notes

  • The September When - Mother I've Been Kissed (1990)
  • Nils Petter Molvær - Khmer (ECM; 1997)
  • Morten Abel - Being Everything, Knowing Nothing (Virgin, 2003)
  • Abel / Mølster / Egdetveit / Eldøy , with Morten Abel, Johan Egdetveit and Øystein Eldøy
  • Elin Furubotn - Heals Nye Vei (2012)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jon Trygve Utne: Obituary in All About Jazz
personal data
SURNAME Mølster, Morten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1962
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2013