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Nils Petter Molvær - NP3 (2002)

Genre: Nu-Jazz

Nils Petter Molvær (NPM), Norwegian trumpet player, composer and producer, connects multiple music styles - jazz, ambient, house, electronic and break beats, as well as elements from hip hop, rock and pop music - and effortlessly melts them into convincing soundscapes of deep intensity.

Born in 1960 on the little island Sula (Norway), NPM was introduced to jazz from an early age by his musician father. After playing in school bands and local clubs he left Sula in 1979 to study music at the conservatory of Trondheim, where he developed his unique style and started to gain a reputation as one of Norway's emerging new talents.

His interest in both acoustic and electric music shows the ease with which he handles the conventions of pop, rock and funk, alongside those of modern jazz. These unique sensibilities soon established him as a much sought after musician in Oslo. After his intermezzo with the Norwegian jazz combo Masqualero, NPM was introduced to Manfred Eicher, who integrated him into his cast of musicians and studio sessions with ECM artists such as Robyn Schulkowsky.

NPM completed his debut album as a leader in 1997, “Khmer”, which focuses on a previously unknown blend of improvisation and hypnotically spinning beats, receiving extraordinary public and media response, and was honoured with the German Record Critics Award and a Norwegian Grammy. ECM for the first time in its history released singles from an album. “Khmer: The Remixes” with remixes of The Herbaliser, Mental Overdrive and Rockers Hi-Fi was released based on the success with “Khmer”.

The eagerly awaited follow-up to “Khmer”, released by ECM in May 2000 entitled “Solid Ether”, intensified NPM's dialogue with club culture. The idea behind the “Solid Ether” concept is that a piece of music is never really finished and that composing and producing are an ever-evolving process. “'Ether' does not exist, so how can it be solid? It's a paradox - like life”.

NPM's album “np3”, released by Universal Music Group in 2002, sees him continuing the concepts that were developed through “Khmer” and “Solid Ether” by putting significant differing elements together to combine contrasting structures. A strong presence on “np3” is NPM's soulful and creative use of new music manufacturing technology. “All these new tools are in themselves both positive and negative. The question is all about timing - when to stop the 'moment' and then freeze it and squeeze it.” Time changes, sound changes, music changes “Being from a generation that didn't grow up with the traditional standards, this is a taste of my tradition..” To enhance the 'musical travel' experience that this is meant to be, NPM has added small ambient islands that bind the whole production together. “np3” was followed by the beautiful DVD “Molvær live”.

“NP3” was remixed by artists such as Bugge Wesseltoft, Funkstörung, Matthew Herbert, Clive-Lowe/Dego, Bill Laswell and Martin Koller, and released as “Remakes” in 2005. A critic proclaimed that: “Remakes confirm once again that Nils Petter Molvær's music upholds its quality from here to eternity, and that it is a small kingdom for the world's best sound manipulators”. ~ Buy It at Lowest Price on Amazon

2002's 'NP3' seems to be something of a close of one chapter and the opening of another for Molvær. Constructed through editing fragments of ideas, sounds and melodies 'NP3' lets more chinks of light through the wall of sound than on his previous albums. The pristine sound has mutated once again, stripped down and lean, the likes of 'Marrow', 'Frozen' and 'Hurry Slowly' are sinewy, virile creatures compared to the brute force of early songs. 'Axis Of Ignorance' turns the W. Bush sound bite "the axis of evil" on its head, NPM giving vent to his feelings post 9/11 of frustration and anger with a biting drum and bass attack of his own. The feeling of cybernetic, biodynamic forms and the streamlined feeling of cyberspace, as referenced in the title itself (the download revolution has not gone unnoticed in jazz circles either) is all part of NPM's continual search for something new yet organic, the fact that he's recently started playing to live art installations is also indicative of his need to interact in real time to events around him, musical or otherwise. Yet Molvær's sense of the tender and poetic is still with him on the gorgeous piece 'Little Indian', dedicated to his daughter, the slow dub feel taken literally with baby steps. 'Nebulizer' the razor-sharp parting shot that also became the final battery of beats, almost vicious in its intent, the air-raid siren of Molvær's trumpet sounds as the apocalypse begins, then the calming aftermath, a new dawn with hope springing up to replace despair. ~

Tracklisting:

1. Tabula Rasa (2:22)

2. Axis of Ignorance (4:45)

3. Hurry Slowly (7:32)

4. Marrow (7:20)

5. Frozen (6:37)

6. Presence (5:43)

7. Simply So (6:51)

8. Little Indian (4:43)

9. Nebulizer (8:02)

Total Time: 53:55

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