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Article: Live Review

Moldejazz 2026

by Daniel Mège
August 4, 2026

Located at 62°7 North, Moldejazz (the Molde International Jazz Festival) is the ideal place for a festival in week 29, in early summer. A floral scent drifts through The Town of Roses, a ribbon less than a kilometer wide wedged into a peninsula between fjord and mountains. Even once it has set, the sun is never far ...

Album

Mojhtestasse

By Marja Mortensson

Label: Vuelie
Released: 2018
Track listing: Miesiej vuelie (The Reindeer Calves - a cappella); Svahken vuelie (The Mountain of Svahke); Daniel Mortenson; Johan A. Persson; Galkije johke (Running Water); Miesiej vuelie (The Reindeer Calves - arranged version); Vaajese (A Tale); Vaartije (Cairn); Mojhtesh (Memories); Aajmeste (From the Snow Storm); Saltien alda muw (My Reindeer Cow); Mojhtestasse (Cultural Heirlooms).

Article: Album Review

Marja Mortensson: Mojhtestasse

Read "Mojhtestasse" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
December 30, 2018

The passing on of musical tradition is fundamental to any culture, but so too is innovation, which breathes new life into old ways. Mojhtestasse, the second album by Norwegian south Saami singer Marja Mortensson, continues her revival of the yoik tradition--a unique, chant-like vocalisation--that has been dormant in her family for several generations. Mortensson's wordless chant-cum-improvisations ...