Motif has been played on NTS in shows including The NCA Show w/ Brassfoot, featured first on 20 May 2020. Songs played include More Than Magic.

Atle Nymo: Sax and clarinettes

Eivind Lønning: Trumpet

Håvard Wiik: Piano

Ole Morten Vågan: Bass

Håkon Mjåset Johansen: Drums

A decade into their tenure, MOTIF is still polishing the personal sound they have been meticulously shaping since the beginning, a sound labeled a.o. as “a remarkable combination of powerful writing, simpatico free play, and stylistic cross-pollination” (John Kelman, Allaboutjazz, on 2008´s “Apo Calypso”).

The musicians unite from the very core of the norwegian scene, from bands such as Bugge Wesseltoft’s…