Jo Berger Myhre is a Norwegian bass player, composer and producer known from his collaborations with amongst others Nils Petter Molvær, Mariam the Believer (Wildbirds&Peacedrums), Ólafur Björn Ólafsson (Sigur Rós), Susanna, and his own band Splashgirl.
“Unheimlich Manoeuvre”, his first solo album, was released on the UK label RareNoise in 2021.
The live album "Live Manoeuvres", will be out in October 2023.
Myhre makes his solo debut with the release of the captivating and mysterious Unheimlich Manoeuvre. The title is an obvious play on the life-saving technique, though whether the added negation makes the threatening or simply subverted remains ambiguous. More to the point, the English translation of unheimlich is “uncanny” or “eerie” – an apt descriptor for the sounds that Myhre creates. To borrow a phrase from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, Myhre conjures aural landscapes that suggest “a place both wonderful and strange,” stunning in their beauty with something alluringly unsettling lurking just underneath.
