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Inge Weatherhead Breistein

Inge Weatherhead Breistein is a jazz saxophonist, composer and producer from Bergen, Norway. He works with various kinds of electronic music, jazz and improvisational music, and he often mixes these three together. He is known for his solo works and the duo “Bishop-Breistein” together with Norwegian-American electronic musician John Derek Bishop. He has released music on labels such as Jazzland recordings, NORCD and AMP music and records. 


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Cirrus: Chorale

Read "Chorale" reviewed by Ian Patterson


It has taken eight years for Cirrus to produce a follow-up to Méli Mélo (NORCD, 2013), the Norwegian quartet's highly impressive debut. The long hiatus merely reflects the multiple projects that have steered vocalist/pianist Eva Bjerga Haugen, tenor saxophonist Inge Weatherhead Breistein, double bassist Theodor Barsnes Onarheim and drummer Stein Inge Braekhus in all manner of different directions. In the intervening years, Haugen, for example, has recorded with Liv Runesdatter's experimental chamber ensemble Song Circus, paid tribute to ...

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"The album is all sorts of ambient jazz shades and I highly recommend you beam aboard."

"Inge Weatherhead Breistein is yet another ambient jazz practitioner from Norway, I'm not sure what they put in the water up there, but it's certainly chilling out the nation's improvisers, although you should never underestimate the continued influence of Jazzland Recordings" - https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org 

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Rust

Jazzland Recordings
2024

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Skogskammer

Mind Vessel Music
2022

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Chorale

SabMusic
2021

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