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Splashgirl is the young, exciting norwegian alternative piano trio featuring Andreas Stensland Løwe (piano, acoustic guitar, Casio SK5), Jo Berger Myhre (double bass, zither, kantele, radio) and Andreas Knudsrød (drums, percussion, mandolin).

Splashgirl's music is 100% honest, complex in its simplicity but first and foremost overwhelmingly beautiful.

Splashgirl released its debut album in March, 2007, Doors. Keys. (AIM). The disc further develops a fusion of contemporary acoustic jazz and chamber music known to fans of musicians including Christian Wallumrød, Trygve Seim and Paul Bley, but taken further with references to post‐rock bands like Mogwai and Sigur Rós, as well as 20th century composers like Eric Satie, Steve Reich and Morton Feldman.

In May 2008, Splashgirl began recording its second album, Arbor, which demonstrated a slight change of style. Still acoustic, the music took an even more minimalistic and defined collective approach where the use of long, sustained sounds bound together a broad palette of string and percussion instruments.

Pressure (Hubro) followed in 2011, an album which All About Jazz's Chris May described as, "Deeply spiritualized and altogether irresistible. As the Arctic ice cap retreats, Nordic jazz takes another step forward."


Andreas Stensland Løwe: piano, acoustic guitar a.o. (b. 1983). Andreas is Splashgirl's primary composer, as well as a composer of various commissioned works. He also plays piano, keyboards, electronics and guitar in bands like Post, Lama, L/W and Pilcrow, to name a few.

Jo Berger Myhre: double bass, kantele a.o. (b. 1984). Jo has lately become quite a sought‐after bass player and is performing regularly around Europe with musicians from all of the Nordic countries, in bands like Laser, Blokk 5, Ingrid Olava and Solveig Slettahjell Slow Motion Quintet.

Andreas Lønmo Knudsrød: drums, accordion a.o. (b. 1982). Andreas has since long been touring Europe with the spectacular medieval theater group Stella Polaris. He plays with Jo in alt‐rock band Blokk 5 and with Løwe in the post-rock act Lama.

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Splashgirl: Hibernation

Read "Hibernation" reviewed by John Eyles


For Hibernation, their fifth Hubro release, Splashgirl retain some of the characteristics that made their recent albums successful, while curtailing others and moving forward into new territory. This album was produced by the renowned American Randall Dunn--producer of Oren Ambarchi, Earth, Six Organs of Admittance, Sunn O)))--who mixed Splashgirl's breakthrough 2011 album Pressure and then successfully produced their last one, Field Day Rituals. Where Pressure featured five guest artists alongside the core trio of Splashgirl, Field Day Rituals ...

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Splashgirl: Field Day Rituals

Read "Field Day Rituals" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


This Scandinavian trio recorded its fourth album in Seattle, WA featuring resident violaist Eyvind Kang and synth performer Timothy Mason lending their wares during various segments. An atmospheric engagement projecting a sense of antiquity, it's often what the musicians don't play that establishes the premise for the artful and rather haunting song-forms executed throughout their cunning playbook. Nestled within slow to moderate pulses, veiled with dark ambient characteristics and judicious use of electronics, the band renders a syndicate of otherworldly ...

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Splashgirl: Field Day Rituals

Read "Field Day Rituals" reviewed by John Eyles


In recent years, as ever-increasing numbers of piano-bass-drums trios have appeared on the scene and released their debut albums, it has become a truism that any such group needs to have its own unique selling point to distinguish it from the crowd. It is no longer enough to write or cover good songs and to play them well--that is not guaranteed to separate a new group from the rest, nor is adopting and adapting elements of already successful piano trios. ...

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Splashgirl: Pressure

Read "Splashgirl: Pressure" reviewed by Chris May


Splashgirl Pressure Hubro 2011 This radiant album from Norwegian piano trio Splashgirl is unlike anything that came before it, except, in some measure, its immediate predecessor, Arbor (Hubro, 2009), whose trajectory it develops. Certainly, nothing quite like it has come out of central Europe or the US. An approximate comparative starting point would be the work of Australian trio The Necks, with which Splashgirl shares a fondness for quietness, pretty tunes, gently mesmerizing grooves ...

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Splashgirl: Arbor

Read "Arbor" reviewed by John Kelman


Doors. Keys. (AIM)--coupled with a 2008 performance at Kristiansand, Norway's annual Punkt Festival--introduced Splashgirl as one of 2008's most intriguing new groups. Arbor affirms Splashgirl as one of improvising music's quietest ensembles.

The same core trio is back. Pianist Andreas Stensland Løwe, bassist Jo Berger Myhre, and drummer Andreas Lønmo Knudsrød all play in a number of groups showcased each year at the opening Punkt Elope mini-fest, which Løwe produces to bring attention to a vibrant ...

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Splashgirl: Doors. Keys.

Read "Doors. Keys." reviewed by John Kelman


As exciting as Norway's annual Punkt Festival always is, there's inevitably one group that stands out as the sleeper hit--unexpected and lesser-known, perhaps, but delivering an especially memorable performance. Splashgirl's show was the hands-down sleeper hit of Punkt 08, and its debut disc, Doors. Keys., further bolsters its reputation as a group to watch. A piano trio at heart (though augmented with a pedal steel guitarist at its Punkt performance), its expansion to a sextet on selected tracks ...

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Hibernation

Hubro Music
2016

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Field Day Rituals

Hubro Music
2013

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Pressure

Hubro
2011

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Splashgirl/Huntsville

Unknown label
2011

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Arbor

Hubro Music
2009

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