Nils Petter Molvaer - Be Quiet BLACK DOUBLE VINYL (Vinyl LP) PRE-ORDER

Expected Release Date: 10-July-2026 - This Pre-order will be shipped on or just before this date. Release dates are subject to alteration.

Norwegian innovator, trumpeter and producer Nils Petter Molvaer presents Be Quiet - a duo collaborative album built across nine tracks with nine distinct artists including Imogen Heap and John Paul Jones, recorded in cities spanning Bangkok, Rome, Berlin and London. Across landscapes of electronica, ambient textures and jazz improvisation, Be Quiet unfolds as an intimate, spatial set of recordings - built on proximity and contrast, where different cultures, disciplines and sonic identities meeting Moalvaer's unmistakable trumpet voice.

The album is accompanied by a documentary film directed by celebrated Norwegian filmmaker Per Manning, capturing the process, environments and relationships behind the music, and informing the project's visual world. Be Quiet unfolds as Molvaer steps into each collaborator's space, responding in real time and shaping a body of work that remains fluid, intimate and constantly in motion.

Available on black double vinyl and digipak CD editions.

Nils Petter Molvaer: trumpet
With:
Chang Jing: guzheng (1)
Martux_m: electronics / synthesizers (2)
Miki Yui: field Recordings / electronics (3)
John Paul Jones: piano (4)
Marilyn Mazur: percussion (5)
Imogen Heap: voice / electronics (6)
Jan Bang: keyboard / sampling (6)
Soheil Shayesteh: kamancheh / electronics (7)
Alva Noto: electronics (8)
Anja Lechner: cello (9)

Tracklisting
Disc 1
Side 1
1. Bangkok (Chang Jing)
2. Rome (Martux_m)
3. Dusseldorf (Miki Yui)
Side 2
1. London-Finsbury Park (John Paul Jones)
2. Copenhagen (Marilyn Mazur)
Disc 2
Side 1
1. London-Hackney (Imogen Heap)
2. Amsterdam (Soheil Shayesteh)
Side 2
1. Berlin-orbit 4 (Alva Noto)
2. Munchen (Anja Lechner)