The Long Journey

'We wanted to play around and improvise,' says Thom Hell, 'capture spontaneity and whims, share them via Dropbox to see what inputs and reactions came back from the other two.' Together with Vidar Ersfjord and Jørn Raknes, known collectively as the group Mr. Mibbler, he has come up with music that digs for gold in bits and pieces of musical driftwood, elusive thoughts and ideas, and immediate reactions to each other's ideas. Weeks of sending pieces of music back and forth saw new melodies and harmonies coming together and forming a whole, an album. This is The Long Journey.

They are three musketeers who know their trade, all highly acclaimed among Norwegian producers, musicians and music lovers. They used to carve their verses from the noblest of woods. Polish the refrains, again and again 'till it shone like the purest gold'. Now they are picking up broken pieces and fool's gold. Catching fleeting ideas out of thin air. Building shaky constructions that hover on the brink of collapse, but that lean on each other to grow strong and sturdy. They got bored with the middle of the road, stumbled off the beaten path and entered the wasteland. They are Mr. Mibbler.

Mr Mibbler: Thom Hell (vocals), Jørn Raknes (guitar), Vidar I Ersfjord (electronics)