Biography
Wako
Effective period / Period of releases: 2017 - 2022
Members: Simon Olderskog Albertsen, Bárður Reinert Poulsen, Martin Myhre Olsen, Kjetil André Mulelid
Norwegian jazz quartet active since 2015.Wako has toured in Scandinavia and central Europe, and shared stage with the likes of ECM artists Arve Henriksen and Frode Alnas, and Norwegian grammy winning Team Hegdal. Theie debut album "The Good Story" was released in November 2015, and their second "Modes for All Eternity" featuring the Oslo Strings in January 2017. Both records were praised by the Norwegian jazz press. Individually, the members are part of the new wave of Norwegian music through both pop and jazz / improvised music in numerous different bands and projects, such as Megalodon Collective (Norwegian Grammy nominee 2016)*, Espen Berg Trio *(NTNU Ambassadors 2016)*, Kjemilie and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra.