Møster! - Inner Earth (2014)

After a hectic summer, touring the festivals with artists such as Röyksopp, Robyn, Lars Vaular, Datarock and Bushman's Revenge, saxophonist and bandleader Kjetil Møster releases the second album with Møster! 'Inner Earth' is an acerbic and inquisitive jazz/rock masterpiece that is in many ways a clear contrast to the band's critically acclaimed first album.

This time he is joined by the legendary Hans Magnus "Snah" Ryan, guitarist/vocalist in Motorpsycho; Nikolai Hængsle Eilertsen, bass player in Elephan9 and BigBang; and the ubiquitous drummer Kenneth Kapstad, also from Motorpsycho and Grand General.

Their debut album 'Edvard Lygre Møster' was a powerful, ecstasy-inducing live set. It was listed among the top 5 debut albums, as well as among the top 10 albums of the year in New York City Jazz Records in 2013, and also achieved an impressive 6th place among the year's best albums in Prog Magazine. With this follow-up the band are moving in another direction. 'Inner Earth' was recorded with Jørgen Træen at Duper Studio in Bergen, a few storeys away from Kjetil Møster's rehearsal room in the creative melting pot of Bergen Kjøtt. "As the title indicates, we've taken a major step over to the prog camp on the new album," says Kjetil, although the jazz influence is not particularly difficult to identify this time, either. Where the debut album was extremely spontaneous, direct and fierce, this follow-up is a more searching, prog-influenced, psychedelic and slow-moving voyage, like riding on lava flowing to the earth's core.

Personnel: Kjetil Møster (saxophone), Hans Magnus "Snah" Ryan: guitar), Nikolai Eilertsen (bass), Kenneth Kapstad (drums)