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All music by Møster (TONO), Parker (umjabuglafeesh music/BMI), Abrams (Lospotreros/ASCAP), Herndon Recorded by the band with help from Iver Sandøy at Studio F, Bergen Kjøtt, May 5-7 2015. Mixed and mastered by Jørgen Træen at Grotten, Studio F, June 29-30 2016. Produced by Møster/Parker/Abrams/Herndon and Jørgen Træen. Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul. Design by Travassos. Line Up: Kjetil Møster tenor saxophone Jeff Parker guitar Joshua Abrams double bass John Herndon drums “Ran Do” comes after the 2014 tour made by the band Møster in the United States, which included a double bill with the American group lead by Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, The Young Mothers. The quartet with Jeff Parker, John Herndon and Joshua Abrams is the direct consequence of Kjetil Møster’s encounter with the Chicago music community, and the approach started on the occasion – the first two are members of Tortoise, the other is the mentor of Natural Information Society. The music inside is somehow extensive of the one proposed by Møster, a pollination of progressive and psychedelic rock elements (with members of the Norwegian bands Motorpsycho, Elephant9, BigBang and Monolithic) with a strong Coltranean influence, but now entering more decisively into post-rock domains and acquiring a more “Americanized” sound. The CD follows a William S. Burroughs notion – «When you cut into the present the future leaks out» – and yes, from those old materials coming from the Sixties and the Seventies s