Solo record out today!
This one has been a long time coming, in many ways, and I'm really excited it's out there! Material developed over the last few years before reaching this form, heavily influenced by the acoustically unique Emanuel Vigeland museum/mausoleum, where it was recorded. Lots of discreet and indiscreet bass, so play it loud on a fitting device plz!
180 gr vinyl with a fold out riso print cover, hand stamped and numbered - be sure that I have touched every single one....... Physical copies can be ordered from PL on Bandcamp or me personally, and also some distributors.
"At once musing and brooding, the gamut of emotive sonic landscapes is at play for a fully dynamic listening experience. The territory in Nørstebø’s vocabulary through interplay with the mausoleum is not vaulted , unlike Vigeland’s urn’ed ashes. On Faint Light Blackens, the spirit takes bound beyond the cavern and reanimates the listeners stereo alters for a holistic listening experience of perfectly challenging electroacoustic endeavors."
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Playing the 6th release concert tomorrow, at Mengi in Reykjavik, and working on release tour part 2 for this fall and next year (feel free to reach out).
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Many thanks to @nickklein____@psychicliberation for releasing & working on this!
I mixed it myself, which was made possible by Espen Reinertsen's excellent recording skills, and final mastering polish by Helge Sten @audioviruslab . Cover photos and video by me. @dominiq.xyz expertly provided cover layout and print preparation, while Gustavo Saiegh took the product photos. Risograph prints by @wemakeitberlin
Thanks to @audrey.isabel.chen for taking this first polaroid photo late last night, providing feedback and being awesome generally!
Music developed with support from @kulturdir , and recorded with support from @ffukno
Solo tour subdivision in Wroclaw and Prague, lovely to hang and listen to travel buddy @nic_krog , Scandi vibes were strong! Thanks @uczu.lenie and @punctum_krasovka for thoughtful hosting!, and @freddyruppert for the 🎥
Norwegian trombonist Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø is an experienced improviser (see the duo Beam Splitter with Audrey Chen) who combines virtuosic play with a focus on spatial acoustics, utilising amplification and electronics. On the recent live recording Solo Norwich, the trombone’s bass pulses and feedback make a former factory seem busy again, up to the brink of an earthquake; the upcoming release Faint Light Blackens provides a lyrical counterpart out of the resonances of Oslo’s Vigeland Mausoleum. Moments of surprise are just as crucial as sheer intensity.
Sonitus presents three musicians from the cosmopolitan Berlin scene: trombonist and sound artist Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, pastoral noise of Bride and Nic Krog’s intimate/skeletal electronics, joined by Mojmír Měchura’s ambient outlet Black Morava.
TICKETS: presale 250/350 CZK via @boomevents.cz or 350 on the spot.
Sonitus presents three musicians from the cosmopolitan Berlin scene: trombonist and sound artist Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, pastoral noise of Bride and Nic Krog’s intimate/skeletal electronics, joined by Mojmír Měchura’s ambient outlet Black Morava.
Nic Krog’s work dramatises a tension between intimacy and detachment. Electronic tropes are complemented by lyrics that draw both from their childhood in the Danish countryside and life on Berlin’s club and queer scenes. The confessional tendencies contrast with apathetic, post-punk-like vocals and emaciated, almost industrial-sounding mutations of bass music. But whether it’s the recent “audio play” on Psychic Liberation, or the debut on Opal Tapes, this is a coldness that always draws you in.
Norwegian trombonist Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø is an experienced improviser (see the duo Beam Splitter with Audrey Chen) who combines virtuosic play with a focus on spatial acoustics, utilising amplification and electronics. On the recent live recording Solo Norwich, the trombone’s bass pulses and feedback make a former factory seem busy again, up to the brink of an earthquake; the upcoming release Faint Light Blackens provides a lyrical counterpart out of the resonances of Oslo’s Vigeland Mausoleum. Moments of surprise are just as crucial as sheer intensity.
Esme Rebora’s project Bride takes drone and noise as its primary modes of operation, with forays into power ambient stripped of its bombast and death industrial that dares make use of colour. In Bride’s slowly roiling soundscapes, harshness cannot be separated from beauty. Loops and pulses get crushed into pulp or, conversely/simultaneously, rise to angelic heights in (quasi-)organ or orchestral melodies with a touch of British post-industrial psychedelia.
Black Morava is the ambient alter ego of Mojmír Měchura aka Trauma of the Wrong collective, staging an encounter between rural tradition and something more unsettling – a twisted take on the world of folk costumes, vineyards, and quaint churches. Last year’s Tři oříšky (Traumatized) gives a good idea of the process: a dissolution of an idyl into ghostly loops.
PLIB034 - HENRIK MUNKEBY NØSTREBØ - FAINT LIGHT BLACKENS LP
On his fourth solo album, and debut work for the Psychic Liberation imprint, Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø presents Faint Light Blackens , a negotiation between the atomized instrumentation of the solo trombone is pushed towards a “full range wall of sound” over the concise sprawl of seven distinct acts on two sides of a vinyl record. The seven acts that make up the album were developed specifically for recording within Emanuel Vigeland’s “Tomba Emmanuelle”. The fresco within the mausoleum anchors themes of existential weight, ripe with weighted imagery of love, birth, and death. The solemn space is a cavernous acoustic terrain wherein reverberant reverie makes it almost impossible to speak aloud, let alone sing through horn and electronics. This chamber’s expanse is baked into the compositional directions employed on Faint Light Blackens.
Experientially, the record was produced in a long form performance gesture, with no overdubs. While edited to fit the record format, no additional post production coloring took place. Here Nørstebø shines as an instrumentalist, wherein the symbiosis of the site specific architecture and his sound sources are synced. At once musing and brooding, the gamut of emotive sonic landscapes is at play for a fully dynamic listening experience. The territory in Nørstebø’s vocabulary through interplay with the mausoleum is not vaulted , unlike Vigeland’s urn’ed ashes. On Faint Light Blackens, the spirit takes bound beyond the cavern and reanimates the listeners stereo alters for a holistic listening experience of perfectly challenging electroacoustic endeavors.
New albums out next by LXV, Corporate Park, Tzu Ni, and Shawn O’ Sullivan …. God willing.
Thursday, 26.03.2026: TRIO Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø (trombone, el. ) & Noid (cello, el.) & Isabella Forciniti (synthesizer, el.) (NO / AT / IT)
**World premiere**
„Cellist, sound artist, improvisation musician and curator Arnold Haberl alias Noid is a core figure of the free art and music community in Vienna. He presents his newest trio: With the Vienna based Italien sound artist and composer Isabella Forciniti. She is a demanded collaborator of many local and international musicians. Her repertoire includes rhythmical fascinating beats, psychoacoustic sounds and spacial sound creations. The third musician of the trio is the Norwegian trombone player Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø. He is active in the field of experimental improvisation music, but also in jazz ensembles. He developed an astonishing sound range on his trombone, often expanded by the use of electronics.“ curated by Franz Hautzinger
Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø: / Noid: /noid.html Isabella Forciniti: /
Doors 19:30h / Concerts ca. 20:15h
Tickets (cash only, no presale):
15 € / 10 €*
*Ask for low price ticket at the entrance if you need our support.
location: celeste
Hamburgerstr. 18, 1050 Vienna (AT)
(U4 Kettenbrückengasse or U4 Pilgramgasse)
Save the date 📣 Next up on Electric Umbrella’s 31st edition; Axiom Trio with prog-jazz improv from Rotterdam and Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø with extended feedback trombone-from Trondheim/Berlin.
5th of April, Sunday 20:00.
@worm.rotterdam
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*Axiom is the trio led by Andrew Moreno, Venezuelan guitarist and composer now based in Rotterdam. An award-winning trio, also featuring drummer Tristan Renfrow and double-bassist Jonathan Ho. Cutting their teeth at leading venues and festivals all over Europe and Asia, the trio’s versatility and fearless approach to improvisation earned them first place at the 2024 Erasmus Jazz Prize, and were invited to perform at North Sea Jazz Festival 2024.
**Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø
Ground-breaking trombonist based in Trondheim and Berlin, exploring the physicality of sound through long-term processes and immersive collaborations. His solo setup combines heavily amplified trombone, analogue electronics and sound files, while utilizing compressor-like use of lungs. His fourth solo release Faint Light Blackens was developed for the resonant acoustics of Oslo’s Vigeland Mausoleum – a seven-part piece exploring pulse, natural harmonics and monumental subwoofer feedback.
Dublin with my little brudda and cousin Ø, accidentally for St Patrick's weekend. Less green hats than expected. Even caught a gig with @aonghus_mcevoy@soundsweep and @philmaguire_ , good antidote. Looking forward to coming back for Reception festival in October
11. april inviterer Periferien til sesongåpning i Emanuel Vigelands Mausoleum!
På programmet står solosett av to eminente musikere og improvisatører: Henrik Munkeby Nøstebø og Sofia Jernberg.
Billetter finnes på lenke i bio. Det er kun 30 plasser, så det gjelds å være rask på labben!
🗓️ 11.04.2026
⏰ 19:00
📍 Emanuel Vigelands Mausoleum, Grimelundsveien 8
Plakatdesign: @ana.maria.bermudez
#nymusikk #improvisasjon #stemme #trombone #oslo
