Billy Meier - Ten (2025) [Hi-Res]

Billy Meier celebrates ten years as a band with their most ambitious album release to date. The band's fourth studio album, Ten, is a celebration of ten years of friendship and music, and for the first time, the band has collaborated with several respectable musicians.

"In contrast to our previous albums, with stories of escapism, extraterrestrial worlds and fantasies, this album is an attempt to highlight the personalities in our band and to illuminate the different musical energies we like, as well as to cultivate what we enjoy in this world instead of dreaming ourselves away somewhere else" - Billy Meier

Among the album's features are American guitarist Blake Mills, the Norwegian vocal/electronic trio Nothing Personal, soprano Hedvig Haugerud, folk musician Steinar Ofsdal and Swedish saxophonist Karl Hjalmar Nyberg.

Billy Meier's unique mix of genres and expressions has made them a wild card on the Norwegian jazz scene over the past ten years. They are known for their quirky compositions, groovy passages, wild improvisations and playful attitude to their picturesque and wide-ranging music. They blend genres such as jazz fusion, new age and exotica with elements of Norwegian folk music and free improvisation.

Billy Meier is:
Henriette Eilertsen - flute, synth
Hans P. Kjorstad - flute, synth
Sander Eriksen Nordahl - guitar, midi-guitar
Martin Morland - bass
Ivar Asheim - drums

Featured artists:
Karl Hjalmar Nyberg - soprano and tenor saxophone
Blake Mills - baritone sustainer guitar
Hedvig Haugerud - vocal (soprano)
Nothing Personal (Dorothea Økland, Solveig Wang, Thea Wang) - vocal/electronics