Nils Petter Molvaer: Hamada | CD review

(Decca)Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer comes to the UK on tour next week, with the material from this session. Molvaer composes extensively for movies and adverts, and the sense that his work is complementary to visuals is always strong. But for Hamada, he mixes his evocative landscape sound with a fiercer, even threatening quality imparted by startling percussion eruptions and the formidable resources of the guitarist Eivind Aarset. It sounds like business as usual in the solemnly breat...

Read full article Share article