Wetle Holte
Wetle Holte | |
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| Born | 4 September 1973 Skien, Telemark |
| Origin | Norway |
| Genres | Jazz, Electronica |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
| Instruments | Drums, keyboards |
| Labels | Jazzland Records |
Wetle Holte (born 4 September 1973) is a Norwegian drummer and composer known from collaborations with , Kirsti Huke, Eivind Aarset, Wibutee, Bugge Wesseltoft, Anja Garbarek, and others
Career[]
Holte was born in Skien, and is a graduate from the Jazz programme at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium,[1] where he started his career in the jazz trio Triangle in (1996), later to become Wibutee (1998), founded by Håkon Kornstad and Per Zanussi in addition to Holte. They released their debut album Newborn Thing (1998), and followed by Eight Domestic Challenges (2001), "Playmachine" (2004)[2] and the Spellemannprisen nominated album Sweet Mental (2006). He has also cooperated more than a decade with Eivind Aarset in projects like Électronique Noire and The Sonic Codex Orchestra, and Bugge Wesseltoft's Jazzland Community (2007)[3]
Discography[]
Solo albums[]
- 2012: Hurricane (Sonne Disk), feat. Kirsti Huke[4]
Collaborative works[]
- Within Wibutee
- 1998: Newborn Thing (Jazzland)
- 2001: Eight Domestic Challenges (Jazzland)
- 2004: Playmachine (Jazzland)[2]
- 2006: Sweet Mental (Sonne Disk)
- With Eivind Aarset
- 2001: Light Extracts (Jazzland), within Électronique Noire
- 2004: Connected (Jazzland)
- 2007: Sonic Codex (Jazzland)
- 2010: Live Extracts (Jazzland), within The Sonic Codex Orchestra
- Within
- 2007: Jazzland Community (Jazzland)[3]
- Within
- 2008: Grand Telemark (Sonne Disk)
References[]
- ^ "Well-known graduates". NTNU.edu. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Colin Buttimer. "Wibutee Playmachine Review". BBC.co.uk.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Kelman, John (25 July 2007). "Jazzland Community: Jazzland Community (2007) – Review". All About Jazz. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- ^ Helgheim, Roald (1 December 2012). "Orkandebut frå Wetle Holte" (in Norwegian). Dagsavisen. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
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- Norwegian jazz composers
- Norwegian jazz drummers
- Male drummers
- 20th-century Norwegian drummers
- 21st-century Norwegian drummers
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology alumni
- Musicians from Skien
- Living people
- 1973 births
- 20th-century drummers
- Male jazz composers
- 20th-century Norwegian male musicians
- 21st-century Norwegian male musicians
- Wibutee members