Squidco: Hot Four: Backer / Stackenas / Williamson / Solberg: Eye of the Moose

Hot Four: Backer / Stackenas / Williamson / Solberg

Eye of the Moose

The quartet of Andreas Backer on voice, David Stackenas on guitars, Joe Williamson on bass, and Stale Liavik Solberg on drums & percussion, for open-minded, improvised chamber music focusing on interaction, textures, dynamic variations and timbre.

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Personnel:

Andreas Backer�voice

David Stackenas�guitars

Joe Williamson�doublebass

Stale Liavik Solberg-drums, percussion

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UPC: 5609063402568

Label: Creative Sources
Catalog ID: cs256
Squidco Product Code: 18795

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2014
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Jewel Tray
Recorded live at Musikhogskolan Ingesund, Arvika, 2013 by Martin Berggren.

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"Hot Four plays open-minded improvised chamber music, focusing on musical textures, dynamic variations and timbre, influenced by European improv tradition, modern jazz and contemporary classical music.

For some years, the musicians now also have been playing together in different projects, so forming the group seemed natural in many ways. As a group, Hot Four's been touring and playing concerts since 2012, supported by Arts Council Norway (Norsk Kulturråd) and Norsk Jazzforum. Hot Four even played an hour live on Sveriges Radio P2, December 2013.

The members of Hot Four has released a lot of different albums, and they've been touring and playing with various bands/musicians, such as LabField, SEVAL, Lina Nyberg Band, The New Songs, motsol, VCDC, Zas trio, Kitchen Orchestra, Andy's Circus, Andreas Backer Trio, Björn Berg Borg, Ester & Andreas, Mats Gustafsson, Raymond Strid, Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lovens, John Russell, Axel Dörner, Sofia Jernberg, Sten Sandell, Michael Zerang, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ken Vandermark, Paal Nilssen-Love, Jim O'Rourke, Han Bennink, Steve Beresford, Roger Turner, Frode Gjerstad, Per Zanussi, Nils Henrik Asheim, Henrik Olsson and many more."-Andreas Backer website

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Artist Biographies

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"Solberg holds a Masters degree in improvisation at the Norwegian Academy of Music and has since worked in the Norwegian and European improvisation scene, u. a. with Øystein Eldøy, Frode Gjerstad, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Eivind Lønning, Stine Janvin Motland, David Stackenäs, Joe Williamson and Per Zanussi in the formations Hot Four, Motsol, S / S Motsol and VCDC. He also played in a duo with John Russell and in a trio with Steve Beresford and Martin Kitchen, 2014 in trio with Alan Silva and Mette Rasmussen . With Paal Nilssen-Love, he organized the Blow Out! Festival in Oslo. [3] Solberg lives in Oslo."

-Wikipedia DE (translated) (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St�le_Liavik_Solberg)
10/27/2025

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Track Listing:

1. Eye Of The Moose 3:47

2. Antler Of The Moose 10:48

3. Claw Of The Moose 11:36

4. Tail Of The Moose 9:02

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