EDVARD LYGRE MØSTER

My first album by these guys was "When You Cut Into The Present" and I was so impressed with the music and the lineup. MOSTER! is named after Kyle Moster the sax player and leader of the band. They're from Norway and there are so many connections that I could actually spend a significant amount of time listing what albums and bands these four guys play on and are part of. Norway is becoming the Canterbury of Scandanavia! Briefly, we get Nikolai Eilertsen on bass and he is in ELEPHANT9 and NEEDLEPOINT. Kenneth Kapstad of MOTORPSYCHO fame on drums, he's also in GRAND GENERAL(love that one). MOTORPSYCHO's guitarist is on all but this record I believe. Many will know the name Stale Storlokken the keyboardist from ELEPHANT9 and SUPERSILENT. He played along with Kyle Moster on that MOTORPSYCHO classic "The Death Defying Unicorn". Okay I'll stop.

So a four piece with three of them playing electronics. Loud electronics. Noisy electronics. So this is MOSTER!'s very first release a live one recorded in Olso in December of 2011. The debut studio album "Inner Earth" is from 2014 and these two are both fairly abstract and noisy. Very experimental and tough to digest. "When You Cut Into The Present" is where the electronics were dropped along with a lot of that free Jazz vibe.

The drumming on the closer "The Boat" is beyond reason really. I'm sure one of his arms must have fallen off late in that performance. I'm not saying much about the music because it is a tough listen. I highly recommend "When You Cut Into The Present" but the two before it are buyer beware. More for the Avant guys or modern Free Jazz lovers.