Nils Petter Molvær

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nils Petter Molvær in the Centralstation (Darmstadt) 2012
Nils Petter Molvær at the Moers Festival 2006

Nils Petter Molvær (born September 18, 1960 in Langevåg on the island of Sula , Norway) is a Norwegian jazz trumpeter and music producer .

Live and act

Molvær was born on the west coast of Norway on the small island of Sula . His musical role models include Miles Davis , Don Cherry , Billie Holiday , Brian Eno , Jon Hassell , Joni Mitchell and Bill Laswell . He is considered a pioneer in the fusion of jazz and electronic music .

At the beginning of his career he played in the formation Oslo 13 , led by Jon Balke . He became known to a wide audience through his debut album Khmer (which was released in 1997 on the Munich label ECM ), on which Molvær juxtaposes his ethereal playing and his feverish, hoarse trumpet tone with powerful electronic beats. Khmer received a lot of attention and excellent reviews; so Molvær got z. As the Prize of the German Record Critics and the American newspaper LA Weekly proclaimed Khmer jazz album of the year 1998. The magazine Rolling Stone chose the album in 2013 in his list the 100 best jazz albums ranked 92nd

Nils Petter Molvær at the jazz festival in Neuwied 2001

This was followed in 2000 by the album Solid Ether and the following year the pure remix album Recolored , on which various guest musicians and DJs participated, including Bill Laswell and Funkstören . The album NP3 was released in 2002 and Streamer in the summer of 2004 . Streamer appeared on Molvær's own newly founded label Sula . In 2005 Molvær released another studio album, ER , on which the singers Sidsel Endresen and Elin Rosseland , but also guitarist Eivind Aarset and pianist Magne Furuholmen (formerly a-ha ) set significant accents.

He also wrote the music for the German film Stratosphere Girl by MX Oberg . In 1998 he received the Norwegian Gammleng Prize in the jazz category. In 2003 he was awarded the Buddy Prize of the Norwegian Jazz Forum.

Discography

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT NO NO
1997 Khmer DE-
Gold (German Jazz Award)
Gold (German Jazz Award)
DE 		- NO23 (9 weeks)
NO
2000 Solid ether DE69 (2 weeks)
DE 		- NO3 (10 weeks)
NO
2002 NP3 DE71 (2 weeks)
DE 		- NO12 (7 weeks)
NO
2005 HE - - NO8 (4 weeks)
NO
2009 Hamada - - NO18 (3 weeks)
NO
2011 Baboon moon - - NO13 (6 weeks)
NO
2014 Switch - - NO33 (1 week)
NO
2016 Buoyancy DE96 (1 week)
DE 		- -
2018 North sub DE46 (1 week)
DE 		AT57 (1 week)
AT 		-
Sly & Robbie meets Nils Petter Molvær feat. Eivind Aarset and Vladislav Delay

More albums

Web links

Commons : Nils Petter Molvær  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Jazz Albums . Retrieved November 16, 2016.
  2. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT NO
  3. ^ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Association of the Music Industry, accessed on June 23, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Molvær, Nils Petter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian jazz trumpeter and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Langevåg on Sula, Norway