Wetle Holte
| Wetle Holte | |
|---|---|
| Born |
4 September 1973 Skien, Telemark |
| Origin | Norway |
| Genres | Jazz, Electronica |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
| Instruments | Drums, keyboards |
| Labels | Jazzland Records |
Wetle Holte (born 4 September 1973) is a Norwegian drummer and composer known from cooperations with musicians such as John Scofield, Nils Petter Molvær, Eivind Aarset, Sidsel Endresen, Bugge Wesseltoft and Anja Garbarek among others.
Holte was born in Skien, and is a graduate from the Jazz programme at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium, where he started his career in the jazz trio Triangle in (1996), later to become Wibutee (1998), founded by Håkon Kornstad and Per Zanussi in addition to Holte. They released their debut album Newborn Thing (1998), and followed by Eight Domestic Challenges (2001), "Playmachine" (2004) and the Spellemannprisen nominated album Sweet Mental (2006). He has also cooperated more than a decade with Eivind Aarset in projects like Électronique Noire and The Sonic Codex Orchestra, and Bugge Wesseltoft's Jazzland Community (2007)
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