Be Quiet Nils Petter Molvær

• 1 Bangkok 04:14
• 2 Rome 04:15
• 3 Düsseldorf 04:18
• 4 London-Finsbury Park 03:59
• 5 Copenhagen 06:43
• 6 London-Hackney 06:29
• 7 Amsterdam 05:41
• 8 Berlin-orbit 4 09:07
• 9 München 03:54
• Total Runtime 48:40

Info for Be Quiet

Norwegian innovator, trumpeter and producer Nils Petter Molvær presents Be Quiet – a duo collaborative album built across nine tracks with nine distinct artists including Imogen Heap and John Paul Jones, recorded in cities spanning Bangkok, Rome, Berlin and London. Across landscapes of electronica, ambient textures and jazz improvisation, Be Quiet unfolds as an intimate, spatial set of recordings - built on proximity and contrast, where different cultures, disciplines and sonic identities meeting Molvær’s unmistakable trumpet voice.

The album is accompanied by a documentary film directed by celebrated Norwegian filmmaker Per Manning, capturing the process, environments and relationships behind the music, and informing the project's visual world. Be Quiet unfolds as Molvær steps into each collaborator’s space, responding in real time and shaping a body of work that remains fluid, intimate and constantly in motion.

Nils Petter Molvær, trumpet
Jan Bang, mix (tracks 7, 8)
Chang Jing, guzheng (track 1)
Martux_m, electronics, synths (track 2)
Miki Yui, field recordings, electronics (track 3)
John Paul Jones, piano (track 4)
Marilyn Mazur, percussion (track 5)
Imogen Heap, vocals, electronics (track 6)
Jan Bang, keyboards, sampling (track 6)
Soheil Shayesteh, kamancheh, electronics, mix (track 7)
Alva Noto, electronics, mix (track 8)
Anja Lechner, vocals (track 9)

Please Note: We offer this album in its native sampling rate of 48kHz, 24-bit. The provided 96kHz version was up-sampled and offers no audible value!

Nils Petter Molvær
Norwegian trumpet player, composer and producer, who takes multiple music styles – jazz, ambient, house, electronic and break beats, as well as elements from hip hop, rock and pop music – and effortlessly reshapes them into unique and dramatic soundscapes of deep intensity.

His remarkable ease in handling the often-contrary conventions of pop, rock, funk, and modern jazz ensured a strong interest in both acoustic and electric music. This chameleon-like ability soon established him as a much sought-after musician in Oslo, which ultimately led to his a colourful and diverse curriculum vitae as a sideman. During his time with acclaimed jazz combo, Masqualero, NPM was introduced to Manfred Eicher, who welcomed him into his prestigious and much-lauded roster. Alongside the three ECM Masqualero releases, NPM recorded many classic studio sessions for ECM with artists such as Robyn Schulkowsky, Marilyn Mazur, Jon Balke’s Oslo 13, and Sidsel Endresen. However, NPM wanted to do something different, both in terms of composition, and trumpet technique.

A trumpet that knows how to capture both the polar ice caps and the burning desert sand, that can portray surging crowds just as well as total solitude, that loses itself but always finds the way back again. Molvaer has his own very individual sound, influenced as much by the poetry of Scandinavian nature as by electronic calculation, and last but not least by colleagues like Miles Davis and Jon Hassell. But more than anything else, Molvaer has himself. Listening to him play, it’s easy to forget that his instrument is a trumpet.

This album contains no booklet.