A beautiful hybrid of jazz and pop music.

Depending on who you ask, jazz can be parade music from the South, uncompromising free-impro or electronic bouldering. Jazz can be popular, melodic and fine, or elitist, challenging and provocative. Some love jazz, others hate jazz but few are indifferent.

Building Instrument finds itself in a place within this myriad, between the electronic and the organic, between pop and improvisation. On their latest album, Kem som kan å leve comes this hybrid openness that also appears in texts delivered in Molde dialect, in an imaginary language or quite simply wordless.

Is Building Instrument jazz? Yes, absolutely. And no. That's what’s great about it!

Mari Kvien Brunvoll – vocals, sampler, sither, percussion, kazoo, Øyvind Hegg-Lunde – drums, Åsmund Weltzien – synthesizers, electronics, melodika