The mighty matriarchal Norway spruce, we’ll call her Inger, shimmering in the never ending twilight of the endless mid-summer day, looks on in regal fashion over the fjord it has guarded for many centuries, along with its many hundred strong…
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Hedvig Mollestad – Ekhidna
Commissioned to write the signature work for the 2018 Vossajazz – Norway’s long-running and well respected annual jazzfest, held in the eponymous city – Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen took the opportunity to expand her established trio format to a six-piece, encompassing…
View More Hedvig Mollestad – EkhidnaBest of 2019 (So Far)….
As we approach the half way point of 2019 and enjoy the delights of many fabulous releases, members of The Progressive Aspect team, in collaboration with Anthony Rowsick’s radio programme Prog-Watch, have collected together their “Best Albums of 2019 (so…
View More Best of 2019 (So Far)….Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Smells Funny
“Jazz isn’t dead, it just smells funny”, was one of the many inimitable one-liners from rock music’s very own Groucho Marx, Frank Zappa. I probably shouldn’t be writing this, as it’s “like dancing about architecture” apparently. Frank’s caustic description of…
View More Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Smells FunnyHedvig Mollestad Trio – Black Stabat Mater & EVIL in Oslo
Their album title might give you a clue, but the Hedvig Mollestad Trio are not, despite the look of the band name, a jazz trio, oh no maties. What they are is a yin-yang-yin primal force of ur-rock noise dealing…
View More Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Black Stabat Mater & EVIL in Oslo