Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen
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Background information | |
Birth name | Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen |
Born | Ålesund, Møre og Romsdal |
4 February 1982
Origin | Norway |
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Musician and composer |
Instruments | Guitar |
Labels | Rune Grammofon |
Associated acts | "El Doom & The Born Electric" Hedvig Mollestad Trio |
Website | Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen on Myspace |
Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen (born 4 February 1982 in Ålesund, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (guitar, vocals and composing), known for a series of album releases and collaborations with musicians like Jon Eberson, Jarle Bernhoft and Hilde Marie Kjersem.[1]
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Career
Thomassen is a graduate from the Norwegian Academy of Music, and collaborates in a variety of rock and jazz bands, including her own Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Thomassen Trio, Bronco Busters, Songs and Sweet Potatoes, and VOM (as "Mester Pøggs"). She also has a central role in the bands of Jarle Bernhoft and Hilde Marie Kjersem, and has performed within Trondheim Jazz Orchestra. Thomassen was awarded "The young jazz talent of the year" at Moldejazz in 2009, and showed up on a gig within Jarle Bernhoft Band at the 2011 Kongsberg Jazzfestival. When she released her debut solo album Shoot! (2011) leading her own trio, the music bears little resemblance to what she plays within Jon Eberson Group and the bands of Hilde Marie Kjersem and Jarle Bernhoft.[1][2][3]
Hedvig Mollestad Trio
Hedvig Mollestad Trio (also referred to as HM3) consists of Hedvig Mollestad (guitar, vocals), Ellen Brekken (bass) and Ivar Loe Bjørnstad (drums). The trio has received numerous appraising reviews internationally, for both their studio albums and live performances.[4][2][5] Their music is inspired by 70s heavyrock, but creates a peculiar musical mixture of ingredients like free jazz, prog and pshycedelia.[6] On its website the band describes their own music as "Outgoing & progressive instrumental rock". Since the trio's formation in 2009, HM3 has played many concerts and jazz festivals in both Norway and abroad and they have toured in Europe, Malaysia, Japan and the USA.[7] In reviews of the bands two most recent albums, All About Jazz critique John Kelman states:
... With its diversity of feel and breadth of aural landscapes, it's a record that may well engender some internal fist-pumping, but Hedvig Mollestad Trio's compelling writing and take-no-prisoners approach to playing show it clearly has plenty more to offer than much of the musical space it occupies... (Album: "All Of Them Witches")[2] |
Many bands use the studio as something different than live performance—and there's no doubt that there's better control over sound—but Hedvig Mollestad Trio makes clear, on all its recordings, that it is recorded live in the studio. It's a challenge to make records that capture the sheer energy, monumental power and flat-out attitude of live performance, but as much as Hedvig Mollestad Trio kicks serious butt onstage, it manages to do the same thing in the studio... (Album: "Enfant Terrible")[4] |
Prizes and honors
- 2009: Jazztalentprisen for The young jazz talent of the year awarded at Moldejazz
Discography
Hedvig Mollestad Trio
- 2011: Shoot! (Rune Grammofon)[1]
- 2013: All of Them Witches (Rune Grammofon)[2][3]
- 2014: Enfant Terrible! (Rune Grammofon)[1]
Collaborations
- Within The Cumshots
- 2009: A Life Less Necessary (Rodeostar Records)
- Within Jarle Bernhoft
- 2010: 1:Man 2:Band (Kikitépe Cassette)
- Within Jon Eberson Group
- 2011: The Coarse Sand & The Names We Wrote (JEG Records)
- Within Trondheim Jazz Orchestra
- 2011: Migrations (MNJ Records), feat. Øyvind Brække
- With Hilde Marie Kjersem
- 2011: Let's Let Go (Brødr. Recordings)
- Within "El Doom & The Born Electric»
- 2012: El Doom & The Born Electric (Rune Grammofon)[8]
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External links
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- Hedvig Mollestad Trio (HM3) official homepage
- Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Gun And The E-Kid – Steinkjerfestivalen 2012 on YouTube
- Hedvig Mollestad Trio – European Tour 2013 on YouTube
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- 1982 births
- Living people
- Musicians from Ålesund
- Norwegian Academy of Music alumni
- Norwegian jazz guitarists
- Norwegian jazz composers
- Rune Grammofon artists