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Orbits is an exciting new musical project I have together with my close friends Natalie Sandtorv and Lars Horntveth. It stems from the commissioned piece "Glass" for Moldejazz, but it's now a full fledged band.

We are putting out our debut album on Jazzland Recordings next year, played a sold out Becco during the yearly Oslo Jazz Festival this august.

First single - Synthetic Sweetness - is out now. New single plus an 12" EP coming soon as well!

Single will be released right before that. Follow us on Instagram for more info!

FUORI is my solo project, where I work closely with some fantastic singers and musicians on creating something emotional, energetic and beautiful .

My debut album is being released early in 2025, with a few singles leading up to it.

On the record you will find Sofie Tollefsbøl, Miss Tati, Jonas Alaska, Herman Wildhagen, baby b, Jouska and Magnus Bechmann, as well as Axel Skalstad on drums, Henriette Eilertsen on flute as well a string orchestra put together by the one and only Sara Övinge. Arrangements in collaboration with Erik Johannsesn.

Stay tuned!

Candura is a new band project featuring Gabriela Garrubo on vocals, Sigmund Vestrheim on drums, Ole Petter Ålgård on keys and myself on additional instruments and production.

We are working on our first batch of songs now, and are looking to release it in early 2024. Musically it’s influenced by everything from Napolitan disco to Turkish funk, Bossa Nova and American soul. Can’t wait to show this new music to you!

I’m super happy to be working on a new project with Melkeveien/Kristian Møller Johansen. We named it OKIOK, and we have batch of songs now. First single “Keegasus” is out on Pekula Records February 12th! Also, a remix of the infamous Norwegian band Jaga Jazzist will be released on Brainfeeder shortly.

For now you can follow us on Instagram.

JR Ewing was a band I played guitar in from its beginning in 1998 to the end of the band in 2006. We released 3 full length albums and several EPS, and spent a lot of time touring Europe and the US. A box set of all our recorded material is due out in 2019.

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Montée was a band formed in 2007, where I played guitar and co-produced most of the music. The band featured a lot of great musicians during our 7 years together: Anders Tjore, Haakon-Marius Pettersen, Marius Simonsen, David Wallumrød, Maya Vik, Andreas Bye and Rune Nergaard. We put out 3 albums - “Isle Of Now”, “Rendition Of You” and “Into The Fray” - and won a Norwegian Grammy “Spellemann” for our 2nd record.

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KILLL was a project including Martin Horntveth, Espen Hangård, Are Mokkelbost and myself, including light designer Kyrre Heldal Karlsen. We played a lot of concerts around Europe and finished up by releasing “KILLL DVD”, compiled of footage taken from different shows and festivals.

DVD

MEMORY is a now defunct collaboration between Kristian Møller Johansen aka Melkeveien, and myself. We released a few remixes for artists like Jonas Alaska and Pow Pow, but have now changed our name to OK/OK and will soon be releasing new music.

Torsion Beat was a band with Espen Eriksen on rhodes piano, Gunnar Halle on trumpet, Audun Erlien on bass, Marius Simonsen on drums and myself on guitar. We played a fusion of jazz, rock, afrobeat and whatever else that popped up when we improvised. We released our only album “Denh” in 2015. Check it out!

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