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Babies On Airplanes: Music For A Noisy Environment

by Daniel Mège
June 12, 2026

Babies On Airplanes is Anna Ueland's trio project. The cover's suggestion of a run-of-the-mill piano/synthesiser-bass-drums trio formula is deceptive. The album deploys a bric-à-brac in the service of a jazz that navigates between synth-pop, pure improvisation (whatever that means), rock, and pretty much anything else one might want to put in it. Ueland, a physicist who turned to music early, is a unique voice on the young Norwegian jazz scene, impressing through her vigorously melodic instinct (melody: first keyword), without any ...