Just finished up the tour in north america with The Thing with/Joe McPhee, a tour that because of sickness in Mats's family ended up being only a trio-tour together with Joe and Paal. Despite the lack of Mats we had a amazing journey through the midwest to the south ending up in texas, the music was unbelivable and we will rock again in nickelsdorf/austria next weekend, then as the wedding band in Mats's wedding.
Are now prepering for a month in europe starting up with a recording of the new IPA CD in Stockholm before heading down to nickelsdorf for wedding and later the festival. More to come!

Just finnished a stretch of work in europe where I started off in Trondheim/Norway, close to my homevillage, with the debut concert of Ola Kvernberg's new orchestra "Liarbird" at the Trondheim Jazzfestival, a very diverse mixture of musicians created - with Ola's new material written for this particular lineup - a universe which felt truly fresh and unique, Im really looking forward to the follow-up concert at the Molde Jazzfestival in July. After this I flew to St Petersburg with The Thing where we had one gig at the SKIF festival, followed up by 6 gigs aroud in europe with the Dave Rempis Percussion Quartet. It was a total blast!!
Are now preparing for the upcoming US tour and new recording together with The Thing + Joe McPhee which kicks off in Milwakee on June 11th, see tourdates and more info coming up regarding this.

Made it back to Austin after two weeks of touring Japan and North of Norway. Great music both weeks, and the Icelandic Volcano made the last few days in norway a very speciall experience.

Now Im preparing for the trio gig next week here in Austin together with Kidd Jordan and Hamid Drake.

New Atomic CD "Theater Tilters Vol. 1" out and Japan tour starts now!