Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø
Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø is a Norwegian trombonist and composer, born in Trondheim in 1986 and based between Trondheim and Berlin. He plays acoustic and amplified trombone with analogue electronics and sound files, in a practice rooted in free improvisation and new music, and he is known for his duo Beam Splitter with vocalist Audrey Chen. Nørstebø studied improvised music and jazz in Gothenburg and Oslo. His solo records include Melting Into Foreground (SOFA, 2015), Dystopian Dancing (2022) and Faint Light Blackens (Psychic Liberation, 2026), recorded in Oslo's Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum.
Faint Light Blackens
*200 copies limited edition* 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…
Off the Coast
Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø and Daniel Lercher met in the Czech country side in 2010, as part of an improvising orchestra comprised of Austrian, Czech and Norwegian musicians, and started working as a duo shortly after. Finding common ground in fine grai…
Rough Tongue
Beam Splitter (Audrey Chen and Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø) is a duo for amplified voice and trombone. Beam Splitter‘s debut album Rough Tongue on Corvo Records is one part, a timbral collage of carefully extracted sound material and in another, a lo…
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2014 release **
"The three pieces presented by Borg (piano) and Nørstebø (trombone) are spellbinding explorations of the low tone. Three pieces but they segue into one another effortlessly and, with the possible exception of slight variation in pitch…
Melting into foreground
Henrik Munkeby Norstebo, trombone, half clarinet, electronics.Melting into foreground is the second solo album from trombone player Henrik Munkeby Norstebo, and his debut on the SOFA label. The first track is solo trombone. No effects. He is using th…
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