2000 #4 Nils Petter Molvaer ~ Solid Ether

I like it because it mixes genres.

There's some techno in there.

There's almost a hip-hop feel.

And then Nils comes in with a soft... tone that he's got on the horn he he doesn't seem to overblow on this album whatsoever i mean um he he keeps it in in the mid-range you know never never getting up in the stratosphere never going way down in the in the deep end of the of the horn he keeps it right in the middle and and he doesn't have to overblow overplay but but he's clear and concise at what he wants to say and how he wants it to come across that's So just sets the tone.

You know, you get that heavy backbeat from the drums and the rhythm section going on, laying down almost the foundation for the rest of the song.

And he just comes in and shows you what he's going to do.

That's what I thought.

There was also for me some rock and roll

kind of sound

early in the clip.

Early in the clip.

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What do you think, Drew?

The entire album, and I think you said it right, it kind of sets the mood and the pace for what we're about to experience, or for those of you who've already listened to the album, it really does solidify what his sound is.

There's so much that all week I kept listening to this album and several others, and I kept in the back of my head thinking, this is where Miles was going to be going.

This could have been the 2,000 miles.

Listening to the way in which he knows never overplayed.

He never overblew either.

He was just kind of in the sweet spot, picked the right note at the right time to make the sound.

On this album, he played the trumpet, the piccolo trumpet, the electronic trumpet, synthesizer, bass, loops, electronics, sampler effects, percussion, piano, synth bass, the whole list of things in the vocorder trumpet.

So there's some very unique sounds coming from his horn.

I kind of think about where Miles would have gone with Henderson.