MOON INHABITANTS - Canned Luna

Like a leap through time worthy of the film “Back to the Future“, five young Norwegian musicians play exactly as their fathers (or grandfathers) might have. Åsne Ausen Fossmark on saxophone, Mikkel Dahl Amundsen on trumpet, Sondre Moshagen on piano, Johannes Wilhelm Burns Lykkås on double bass and Jørgen Fiske on drums have just made their debut under the name Moon Inhabitants, releasing an album of sinuous modern jazz.

“Canned Luna” shows all the eclecticism of a generation that hasn't just learned the classics of the past by heart. While the reference point remains the legendary jazz scene of the Sixties, the Trondheim quintet's vocabulary also draws on ambient, noise and the kind of improvisation born from the experimentation of the last forty years.
Across the eight tracks on the album, more immediate moments alternate with others that are more expansive and contemplative. It's precisely in these shifts that the project's personality comes through: a balance between nostalgia and experimentation, between familiarity and the urge to escape. Listening to it, then, also conveys the feeling of a nighttime journey, made up of blurred images, imaginary landscapes and sudden melodic openings.

The ten-plus minutes of “Is There No Alternative?”, coming almost at the close of the album, reveal a band in a state of grace, where every musician involved in the improvisation is able to hear the others' voice in the dialogue, following the patterns and syntax of a musical language honed over years of study.

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23/09/2026