Holten Fjeldberg

Rediscovered sounds of technological trip jazz

Out of the dissolution of the Copenhagen indie rock band How Do I came not just Anders Remmers' electronic projects Dub Tractor and Future 3, Peter Fjeldberg's Double Muffled Dolphin, and the now somewhat legendary label April Records.

Holten Fjeldberg’s sound could be said to resemble contemporary names like the Belgian ensemble Echt! or The Cinematic Orchestra. But Holten Fjeldberg created these tracks 30 years ago, after Fjeldberg left How Do I. From then on he dove deep into the ambient genre as Double Muffled Dolphin, while simultaneously collaborating with How Do I bassist Hans Holten Hansen — who had picked up a double bass to explore bebop. Together they took on a more jazz-inflected investigation of the encounter between sampler and double bass.

Now the two have rediscovered 14 of the wav files they created long ago — featuring guest appearances by the saxophone of T.S. Høeg, the trumpet of Ole Reimer, and the electric guitar of

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