Hedvig Mollestad Trio

Hedwig Mollestad Thomassen is a Norwegian guitarist, composer, and improviser dynamic in both hard rock and roll and jazz moments. She network marketing leads her very own trio with bassist Ellen Brekken and drummer Ivar Joe Bjørnstad, and offers collaborated with jazz and rock and roll artists. Thomassen was created in Ålesund, Møre og Romsdal, Norway in 1982. She started playing acoustic guitar at age ten on her behalf mother’s nylon-string device. While she got no “formal” musical education to talk about, her learning floor was her father’s intensive jazz and rock and roll & move record collection. Still in senior high school, she translated a biography of Jimi Hendrix to get a school task. She immersed herself not merely in his groundbreaking function, but also in your guitar varieties of everyone from Jimmy Web page to Sonny Sharrock, from Fred Frith to Pete Cosey, from John McLaughlin to Carlos Santana. Before developing her trio, she collaborated with a broad swath of musical personalities and ensembles like the Bronco Busters, Lovely Potatoes, Vom, and her personal early Mollestad Trio. Her documenting career began like a visitor for the Cumshots’ (environmental activist music artists Kristopher Schau and Ole Petter Andreassen) 4th album, A Existence Less Necessary, in ’09 2009. She also immersed herself in improvising and playing jazz, and earned the Jazztalentprisen for Youthful Jazz Talent of the entire year in the Molde International Jazz Event in Norway that same yr. She shaped the Hedwig Mollestad Trio with Brekken and Bjørnstad soon after. This year 2010, she made an appearance like a visitor soloist on Jarle Bernhoft’s cassette-only providing 1:Guy 2:Music group. Her trio’s debut recording, Shoot!, made an appearance on Rune Grammofon in 2011, and was broadly acclaimed because of its bracing mixture of hard rock and roll, metal, and free of charge jazz. Later on that yr she appeared like a soloist for the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra’s Migrations, for the Jon Eberson Group’s The Coarse Fine sand & The Titles We Wrote, and Hilde Marie Kjersem’s Let’s RELEASE. In 2012, Mollestad (on acoustic guitar and Hammond B-3) joined up with Andreassen’s rangy, revolving, intensifying supergroup Un Doom & The Blessed Electric powered. The band’s associates also included Ståle Storløkken, Eberson, brothers Håvard and Brynjar Takle Ohr on drums and electric guitar, respectively, bassist Nikolai Hængsle Eilertsen, and Mikael Lindquist on Mellotron. They released a self-titled record on Rune Grammofon. Her very own trio played on the Steinkjerfestivalen that summer months. The Hedwig Mollestad Trio’s sophomore documenting, Most of Them Witches, premiered in 2013 to general acclaim in jazz, avant-garde, and indie rock and roll circles. She also documented a studio room album using the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra entitled Ekko that calendar year, and made an appearance with them live. In June of 2014, the HM3 released its third record, Enfant Terrible. The band’s audio continuing to evolve through its live shows as Mollestad and her music group embraced even more improvisational music and free of charge jazz. Its rock and roll dynamism remained natural, nevertheless. In 2016, the double-length Bad in Oslo as well as the studio room set Dark Stabat Mater, had been both released by Rune Grammofon as proof the group’s development.