How do you create an entire world from nothing but tones, sounds and rhythms? A world full of width and depth, full of colors, movements and manifestations, with different temperatures and divergent courses of time. On “SulaMadiana”, it only takes two musicians to form such a world.

The album title is not some ancient spell, but a confession to the musicians’ respective biographies.
Sula is the island from which Molvær stems, Madiana is a synonym for Martinique, where Cinelu’s father comes from.

The Norwegian trumpeter and the French percussionist represent two worlds, which – at first glance – could hardly be more different. Both are masters in the visualization of sound, and in changing the visible into the audible. Their musical home is the entire planet, but while Molvær's hoarse and cloudy trumpet sound evokes boreal cold, Cinelu stands for the rhythmic fire of Latin America and Africa.

On “SulaMadiana”, they finally found their common playground.“SulaMadiana” is a cornucopia, spilling out reverberations of Miles Davis, Gong, and previous works of Molvær, and yet Molvær and Cinelu open up doors to entirely new worlds.

“SulaMadiana” is a cornucopia, spilling out reverberations of Miles Davis, Gong, and previous works of Molvær, and yet Molvær and Cinelu open up doors to entirely new worlds.

Listen to “SulaMadiana” here: ALBUM LINK