Jazz
Fjordgata Records · 16 October 2026
Trumpet, voice and guitar, and nothing else: no bass, no drums. That’s the line-up on “Memoirs”, the album Norwegian trumpeter Oscar Andreas Haug, born in 1999, released on 16 October through Fjordgata Records. He’s joined by singer Sanyu Christine Nsubuga and guitarist Torstein Slåen, with whom he formed the trio in Copenhagen in 2023. According to the album notes, doing without a rhythm section leaves the music to the interplay between the three, and Haug reveals a new side of himself here with lyrics and vocals, on some pieces drawing on the storytelling tradition of Scandinavian singer-songwriters.
There are seven pieces, all written by Haug, running to around forty minutes. The longest is the title track, at almost nine minutes; “Enter” and “Simple Eleven” had already reached streaming services on 21 August and 18 September. The trio recorded it in a single day, 19 December 2023, at Musikkloftet, with Vidar Lunden engineering; it was mixed by Bård Ingebrigtsen and mastered by Karl Klaseie.
Away from this project, the notes place Haug in Bliss Quintet, Amalie Dahl’s Dafnie and Tuva Halse’s quintet, and point out that he guested as a soloist on a record by Danish trio Little North for the ACT label.
Text by Aina Torrents