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Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Bees in the Bonnet (2025)

Posted By: delpotro

Date: 14 Sep 2025 06:17:09

Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Bees in the Bonnet (2025)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 232 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 85 Mb | 00:35:42
Jazz Rock | Label: Rune Grammofon

After an outpouring of seven acclaimed albums over a decade, accompanied by rapturously received touring all over Europe and North America, it's been nearly four years since the Hedvig Mollestad Trio released their triumphal seventh album, “Ding Dong. You're Dead”. Mollestad's pent-up delight in reconnecting with cofounders Ellen Brekken (bass) and Ivar Loe Bjornstad (drums) pervades “Bees in the Bonnet”'s thirty-seven adventurous, invigorating, beautifully baffling yet accessible minutes as they continue to blur boundaries between progressive rock and jazz and heavy psychedelia with their signature telepathic chemistry, nuanced sonority and uplifting spirit.

AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek
Bees in the Bonnet marks the first outing by the original Hedvig Mollestad Trio since 2021's Ding Dong. You're Dead. Double bassist Ellen Brekken and drummer Ivar Loe Bjørnstad played alternating roles on the guitarist's albums in 2022: Maternity Beat with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra featured Elephant9's Torstein Lofthus on the drum kit, and their recording of the score of composer Arne Nordheim's The Tempest Revisited added a slew of musicians with Trond Frønes on bass.

Bees in the Bonnet is a return to basics for the trio. That said, they take those basics to extremes. Check opener "See See Bop." Its opening vamp insistently reflects the influence of Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore; the vamp bears undisguised ghost traces of "My Woman from Tokyo." That riff persists and is played in rounds where first guitar, then bass, then drums, alternate in the foreground as it chugs until the halfway mark, when the beat syncopates for a bit before the crunch resumes in a higher key. By contrast, "Golden Griffin" nods at the influence of Jeff Beck with Jan Hammer in angular prog. Scalar runs drift into expansive harmonic terrain as the rhythm section pushes an ever-evolving vamp that ever so slightly shifts in time and texture throughout. "Itta" offers undisguised homages to guitarists Terje Rypdal and the young John McLaughlin. It opens with a bracing staccato rhythm before slowly transforming into a hypnotic fusion vamp at once knotty and forceful. "Bob's Your Giddy Aunt" is metallic vanguard prog, though the tune's central vamp is accessible. In the final third, the band engages in harmonic and rhythmic counterpoint, adding mystery and power to the proceeding. "Lamament" is a haunting ballad composed for Mollestad's father. It's atmospheric and spare, hovering in front of the listener like a specter. Her melody is bittersweet and exquisite, showcasing an entirely different dimension of the trio. It provides an excellent introduction to the labyrinthine jazz-rock closer "Apocalypse Slow." Here more than anywhere else, the trio's experience lends itself to adventure. The tune eventually grinds into a transcendent, overdriven vamp, Brekken and Bjørnstad increase the tension; Brekken's bass throbs directly into Mollestad's sophisticated yet unhinged solo: it screams, grinds, and bleeds before the rhythm section gathers Mollestad up, and together they play a faster, complex, interlocking groove that moves through several more speedy transitions.

The members of the original Mollestad Trio have remained part of her orbit, no matter who played on what. Their Bees in the Bonnet reunion delivers a musically adventurous approach to heavy, riff-laden, wildly progressive jazz-rock filtered directly through '70s metal. These seemingly extreme elements are stitched together to deliver what is easily her most accessible recording yet.

Tracklist:
01. See See Bop
02. Golden Griffin
03. Itta
04. Bob's Your Giddy Aunt
05. Lamament
06. Apocalypse Slow

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