Nils Petter Molvær

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Molvær in Neuwied, Germany, 2011

Nils Petter Molvær ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}), also known as NPM (born 18 September 1960), is a Norwegian jazz trumpeter, composer, and record producer. He is considered a pioneer of future jazz, a genre that fuses jazz and electronic music, best showcased on his most commercially successful album, Khmer.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Biography

Molvær was born and raised on the island of Sula, Møre og Romsdal, Norway, and left at age nineteen to study on the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (1980–82).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He joined the bands Jazzpunkensemblet with Jon Eberson and Masqualero, alongside Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen and Tore Brunborg. Masqualero (named after a Wayne Shorter composition originally recorded by Miles Davis) recorded several albums for ECM Records, and Molvær recorded with other ECM artists before his 1997 debut solo album, Khmer. The record was a fusion of jazz, rock, electronic soundscapes, and hip-hop beats – and quite unlike the delicate "chamber jazz" typically associated with ECM.<ref>Geoff Dyer in The Observer</ref> Molvær's muted trumpet sound, sometimes electronically processed, had an obvious debt to Miles Davis's work of the 1970s and 1980s, but without being a slavish copy. For the first time, ECM released singles: "Song of Sand", backed with three remixes, and "Ligotage". In 2000, a second album followed, Solid Ether, after which Molvær left ECM. He has recorded several albums since, and has also produced film and theater music.<ref name=nbl>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref><ref name=mic1>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He often works with guitarist Eivind Aarset. He has also played with Tabla Beat Science, created by Zakir Hussain and Bill Laswell.<ref name=mic2>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Honors

Discography

In Masqualero

  • 1983: Masqualero
  • 1985: Bande À Part<ref>Also listed as Bande à Part and Bande à part.</ref>
  • 1987: Aero
  • 1990: Re-Enter

Solo

  • 1997: Khmer
  • 1998: Khmer: The Remixes (promo only)
  • 1998: Ligotage (EP)
  • 2000: Solid Ether (feat. Sidsel Endresen and others)
  • 2001: Recoloured (remixes)
  • 2002: NP3
  • 2004: Streamer (2002, live)
  • 2005: Er <ref>The title is er, the common suffix for the names of the tracks ("Hover", "Softer", "Dancer", etc.) and their author.</ref>
  • 2005: Edy (soundtrack to the film by Guérin-Tillié)
  • 2005: Remakes (remixes)
  • 2005: An American Compilation (compilation)
  • 2008: Re-Vision (OST outtakes merged into an album) <ref>Re-Vision press release Template:Webarchive</ref>
  • 2009: Hamada <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2011: Baboon Moon
  • 2014: Switch
  • 2016: Buoyancy
  • 2021: Stitches
  • 2025: KHMER Live in Bergen

Collaborations

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Also appears on

  • Beginner's Guide to Scandinavia (3CD, Nascente 2011)

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