If Hamada was transitional, Baboon Moon completes the change; an album of paradoxes and, quite simply, the most important record Molvær has released since changing the musical landscape on the groundbreaking Khmer (ECM, 1997).(JOHN KELMAN),
A trumpet that knows how to capture both the polar ice caps and the burning desert sand, that can portray surging crowds just as well as total solitude, that loses itself but always finds the way back again… Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer has his own very individual sound, influenced as much by the poetry of Scandinavian nature as by electronic calculation, and last but not least by colleagues like Miles Davis und Jon Hassell.(More at http://www.nilspettermolvaer.info/index.php)
