Raoul Björkenheim – Electric guitar
Ingebrigt H. Flaten – Electric bass
Frank Rosaly – Drums & perc.
Mars Williams – saxophones 

This group reflects a mélange of influences ranging from Hendrix & James Blood Ulmer to Albert Ayler & Hal Russel, with some weird sounds and rock esthetics thrown in, for good measure. Scorch came about as a result of meeting Finnish guitarist, Raoul Björkenheim at the Jyvaskyla Summer Jazz Festival in 1998. Hearing each other play, it was immediately obvious to both of us that a collaboration would lead to some highly inspired music. The group was originally conceived as a trio with my frequent co-conspirator, Paal Nilssen-Love on drums, and as a constellation we recorded 3 albums for Norwegian boutique label, Rune Grammofon: Scorch Trio (2004), Luggumt (2007) and Brolt(2008). After the departure of Paal in 2009, Frank Rosaly was invited to join us in filling out our trio and we recorded and released a fourth album “Melaza”  together, through Rune Grammofon. In 2011 we enlisted the talents of legendary Chicago sax-man, Mars Williams . With Mars now in the mix the group has taken a completely new and exciting direction.

Our first European tour as a quartet in the spring of 2011, resulted in some great live recordings that are released as the double-vinyl “Made in Norway” also through Rune Grammofon.

Label: www.runegrammofon.com
Web: www.raoulbjorkenheim.com, www.frankrosaly.com, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Williams
Myspace: www.myspace.com/scorchtrio