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Moon Inhabitants

Moon Inhabitants is a quintet with a playful and spontaneous approach to written composition, and a philosophy that anything goes. Dynamic extremes are in focus and the music is inspired by 60´s free jazz, with modern inflictions. The result is high energy, unpredictable improvisation, and playful naivety.

Canned Luna

By Moon Inhabitants

Label: Sauajazz
Released: 2026
Track listing: Eudaimonia; Le Voyage Dans la Lune; Månebedotten; Korall; Canned Luna; Ichthyology; Is There No Alternative?; Dysnomia.

Moon Inhabitants: Canned Luna

by Daniel Mège
September 4, 2026

Is there anybody up there? The question is not as far-fetched as it sounds: NASA's lunar program is about to celebrate All About Jazz's 35th anniversary with the start of construction of a permanent lunar base (2030), laying the foundations for AAJ's 50th anniversary with its completion. Jazz will win: once the planet's taxpayers' money has ...

Sondre Moshagen

Johannes Lykkås

Åsne Fossmark

Åsne Fossmark, born 2002, is a tenor saxophonist and composer out of Trondheim, in the Trøndelag region of Norway. She picked up jazz around 2019 and splits her time across several active groups.

She plays in When I Return, a septet that came together in the early 2020s inside NTNU Trondheim's jazz program. Their debut record, The Weight of Bloom (Jazzland Recordings, 2026), builds open melodic lines that give way to tightly wound improvised counterpoint.

She also holds down the saxophone chair in Moon Inhabitants, a quintet rounded out by Mikkel Dahl Amundsen on trumpet, Sondre Moshagen on piano, Johannes Lykkås on bass, and Jørgen Fiske on drums. The band leans on 1960s free jazz but plays fast and loose with it; their label calls the results "an energy bomb with unpredictable cosmic improvisations and down-to-earth naivety." Canned Luna, the band's debut, also came out in 2026 (Sauajazz).

Mikkel Dahl Amundsen

Jørgen Fiske