The tenth album from this band from Norway.
The band was a trio with a lineup of drums, bass and guitars.
Hedvig Mollestad has in the last decade become one of the best guitarists and artists in the prog and jazz scene in Norway.
The music on this thirty-six minutes long album, and indeed on most of the Hedvig Mollestad Trio albums is neither prog or jazz. The music here is hard rock with a lot of jazz influences.
Take Motorhead and Budgie. Infuse jazz into their music. Well, the late and very much missed Lemmy in Motorhead was a jazz bass player in any case. Something that was a substantial part of the Motorhead sound. Hedvig Mollestad Trio takes this hard rock a lot further into the jazz territory.
The music is very hard here. It is also a bit dissonant at times. The band does a great job on bass and drums, with Hedvig guitars on the top.
The trio, or Hedvig, has not gone for a guitar hero album. She is indeed a guitar hero and her guitars are great on this album. This though is a band album where all three members works as one unit.
Some of the guitar themes are very good, though, and Hedvig really demonstrates that she is a great guitarist.
The result is another very good album from this band and a reminder that this is a band, and indeed an artist, who deserves a greater following. The music here is not for the faint-hearted though.....
3.5 points
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