Hamada

Nils Petter Molvaer

The word “Hamada” is taken from the Arabian language and means dead, inanimately, congealed, lapsed. It is used as the geological term for a stone or rock desert with no or only little sand. Instead it is filled with edgy stones or rocks as a result of physical erosion.

It is Nils Petter Molvaer´s most angry and darkest album up to date with climaxes in the songs “Friction” and “Cruel Altitude” where he and his fellow musicians, Eivind Aarset (g) and Audun Kleive (dr), leave the paths of ambient, electronica and improvisation and get the axe out to poach in the fields of indie and 70ies-prog-rock, before they cool it down to end the album on a more conciliatory note.

Credentials

Nils Petter Molvaer - Trumpet
Eivind Aarset - Guitar
Audun Kleive - Drums

Tracklist

1 Exhumation
Trumpet – Nils Petter Molvaer*
2 Sabkah
Guitar – Eivind Aarset
Trumpet, Voice [Voices] – Nils Petter Molvaer*
3 Icy Altitude
Guitar [Guitars], Programmed By – Eivind Aarset
Trumpet, Voice [Voices] – Nils Petter Molvaer*
4 Friction
Bass – Audun Erlien
Drums – Audun Kleive
Edited By – Audun Kleive
Guitar – Eivind Aarset
Trumpet, Voice [Voices], Drum Programming [Beat Programming] – Nils Petter Molvaer*
5 Monocline
Guitar – Eivind Aarset
Sampler [Live Sampling], Recorded By [Field Recording], Programmed By [Programming] – Jan Bang
Trumpet, Sounds [Sound Carpet] – Nils Petter Molvaer*
6 Soft Moon Shine
Edited By, Arranged By – Eivind Aarset
Guitar, Bass, Programmed By [Programming] – Eivind Aarset
Sampler [Live Sampling] – Jan Bang
Trumpet, Programmed By [Programming] – Nils Petter Molvaer*
7 Monocline Revisited
Guitar [Guitars] – Eivind Aarset
Sampler [Live Sampling], Recorded By [Field Recording], Programmed By [Programming] – Jan Bang
Trumpet, Sounds [Sound Carpet] – Nils Petter Molvaer*
8 Cruel Altitude
Bass – Audun Erlien
Drums – Audun Kleive
Edited By – Audun Kleive
Guitar – Eivind Aarset
Trumpet, Voice [Voices] – Nils Petter Molvaer*
9 Lahar
Trumpet – Nils Petter Molvaer*
10 Anticline
Edited By, Mixed By – Jan Bang
Guitar [Guitars] – Eivind Aarset
Sampler [Live Sampling], Recorded By [Field Recording], Programmed By [Programming] – Jan Bang
Trumpet, Percussion [Metal Percussion], Sounds [Sound Carpet] – Nils Petter Molvaer*