From the second half of the nineties onwards, a second revival of Norwegian jazz has proved to be the follow up of the improv wave in the sixties and seventies instigated by Jan Garbarek and others. Trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer has opened the door for sound wizard Bugge Wesseltoft and the eclectic post-modern concept that functions as a melting-pot full of electronic voices, samples and rhythms mixed with jazz-grounded compositions. Wesseltoft transformed himself from a traditional jazz musician recording for the ECM label, to owner/musician of his own progressive record label Jazzland. His Future Jazz hit the world like a bomb. At the festival he will mix his loops, samples and other musical distortions in an intriguing way with the sounds of the Tunesian singer, composer and oud-player Dhafer Youssef. His music has its roots in the Sufi tradition and other mystical music variations, but he has always been open to electronic jazz, an open-mindedness he showed in the project Electric Sufi, which Youssef presented at the festival in 2002.
