Black Stabat Mater

Black Stabat Mater

$15.95
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Personnel: Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen (guitar); Ivar Joe Bjornstad (drums).Audio Mixer: Johnny Skalleberg.Recording information: Ocean Sound Recordings, Giske.Over the last few years, the Hedvig Mollestad Trio have become one of the more exciting units on Norway's music scene. Led by electric guitarist Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen, their previous studio offerings have broken into genre-blurring statements of heavy metal and hard rock riffery that touched on the noisier realms of jazz improvisation. Black Stabat Mater is the group's fourth studio offering. It is being simultaneously released with the live-double album Evil in Oslo. Clocking in at only 33 minutes, these five tracks offer something different than previous outings. This set is a bit less concerned with the riff-oriented pyrotechnics of hard rock and metal, and lean more into jazz-rock and even avant-jazz. First track "Approaching" commences with Mollestad's fat, spacious guitar chords, Ivor Joe Bjornstad's careening snares,

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