Elephant9

Elephant9 is a Norwegian trio formed in Oslo in 2006 by keyboardist Ståle Storløkken, bassist Nikolai Hængsle (Eilertsen) and drummer Torstein Lofthus. The group plays a heavy, largely instrumental mix of jazz-rock, progressive rock and psychedelia and records for Rune Grammofon. Elephant9 started out as Storløkken/Eilertsen/Lofthus and took its current name after its first year. The debut Dodovoodoo came out in 2008, and Walk the Nile (2010) won the Spellemannprisen in the jazz category. The Swedish guitarist Reine Fiske joined them on Atlantis (2012) and Silver Mountain (2015).