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Reviews (4)
AllMusic
2022
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Thom Jurek
2022
"Maternity Beat is a collaborative wonder and the most important album in either Mollestad's or TJO's catalogs. Together, they sustain the concept with stellar execution and enviable focus. They simultaneously impart joy, drama, and intensity with inspiration, remarkable technique, and sheer grit".
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d. 20. Nov. 2022
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Eyal Hareuveni
d. 20. Nov. 2022
"Maternity Beat is, no doubt, the most ambitious work to date of Norwegian adventurous guitarist, bandleader, composer and now also arranger Hedvig Mollestad. This compassionate and emotional work offers deeply personal meditations on the nature of family and Mollestad's own privileged experiences with parenting and nurturing. These thoughts and reflections are contrasted by pressing social justice issues that prevent all humans from achieving equality and value ... It expands Mollestad's musical vision far beyond the Mahavishnu Orchestra-inspired fire music that has made her trio heavyweights in 21st-century fusion and jazz-metal. Mollestad's guitar parts and solos stress a more orchestral and even psychedelic prog-rock and spiritual jazz leanings and rely less on the familiar fusion-metallic killer riffs of her trio ... A bold and daring statement, but also a thoughtful and inspiring and most compassionate one".
DownBeat
2023 February
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Peter Margasak
2023 February
"While her choogling mix of John McLaughlin and Terje Rypdal at their most furious has retained its presence, this new project is her most ambitious outing and she's found the perfect collaborators in the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, a long-running collective with a wildly versatile cast that's worked with musicians as diverse as Chick Corea, Jason Moran and Anna Webber".
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540 (2023 January)
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Charles Waring
540 (2023 January)
"Boundary-breaking Norwegian guitarist Hedvig Mollestad - who marries gnarly free jazz tropes with spacey atmospherics and tenebrous prog-rock angst - returns with (...) the gripping 'Maternity Beat', a widescreen collaboration with The Trondheim Jazz Orchestra that's packed with "wow" moments and ear-opening sonic surprises".