Nils Petter Molvær Trio

"Invisible Stiches" are delicate stitches that tell a story. The album “Stiches” by the exceptional Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær—who thrilled the audience last year at the festival in a duo with Greek pianist Tania Giannouli—was created during the 2021 pandemic and draws on a line from a poem by Robert Pinsky as a symbol of the invisibility of the people behind production processes. Molvær, the pioneer of electroacoustic “Future Jazz,” also recorded a touching version of Radiohead’s “True Love Waits” for his album. With his outstanding trio featuring Ehrland Dahlen on drums and Joe Berger Myhre on bass and guitar, Molvær creates expansive, electronically dense soundscapes and meditative, dark soundscapes of profound intensity. Raw and vulnerable, melancholic and hopeful.