Richard Andersson NOR feat. Anne Efternøler & Ocean Fanfare

HOBBY HORSE PRESENTS A DOUBLE BILL: RICHARD ANDERSSON NOR FEAT ANNE EFTERNØLER & OCEAN FANFARE

With a clear and sensitive expression shaped by Nordic melancholy and carefully measured volcanic temperament, prize-winning bassist Richard Andersson's Danish/Icelandic trio NOR has moved listeners across Scandinavia at more than 100 concerts over the past decade.

Now the trio is ready to present a collaboration with trumpeter Anne Efternøler, a musician whose deeply personal voice and poetic storytelling take the trio into new corners of their musical universe.

Alongside bandleader Richard Andersson, the NOR trio features two of Iceland's most prominent jazz personalities: saxophonist Oskar Gudjonsson (ADHD, Jakob Bro, Mezzoforte, and more) and drummer Matthias Hemstock.

Drawing on compositions by Andersson and Gudjonsson, the trio created their debut album Nor in 2017, followed in autumn 2018 by The Six of Us . Both releases were received with great enthusiasm by Danish and international press alike. Salt Peanuts wrote: "The trio does sound as a tight unit, with a strong, emphatic interplay, as of a close family but of the Scandinavian kind, well-behaved, quiet and gentle." Their Danish Music Awards Jazz-nominated album Undo (2023) followed, featuring Hilmar Jensson's generous and virtuosic guitar work. And who knows – perhaps this new collaboration with Anne Efternøler will give rise to an album before long. Either way, audiences are in for an intimate and very special concert experience when NOR takes the stage with "…a trumpeter with an expression that goes straight to the heart." (Salt Peanuts, 2023).

Richard Andersson (double bass) · Anne Efternøler (trumpet) · Oskar Gudjonsson (saxophone) · Matthias Hemstock (drums)

Ocean Fanfare

Ocean Fanfare is a Danish-Polish quartet comprising trumpeter Tomasz Dąbrowski, saxophonist Sven Dam Meinild, bassist Richard Andersson and drummer Peter Bruun. Since forming in 2012, the group has built a singular collective identity rooted in structurally open, improvisation-led music.

For their Spil Dansk concert at H15, Ocean Fanfare present music from their forthcoming album Third Nature – Temporal Polyphony , due June 12th, 2026 – the third and final instalment of their Nature Trilogy.

The record draws inspiration from Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World and her concept of 'temporal polyphony' – the coexistence of multiple timelines and possibilities. The quartet translates this into flexible compositions that favour ambiguity and intuitive decision-making over fixed forms, with different temporal layers emerging organically through live interaction.

The group moves between tightly aligned phrases and more diffuse, textural playing, with a rhythm section that shifts between grounded swing and open, momentum-driven passages.

Sven Dam Meinild (alto saxophone) · Tomasz Dąbrowski (trumpet) · Richard Andersson (bass) · Peter Bruun (drums)