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Chris Monsen’s Listening Booth

Chris Monsen

Notes and musings on music

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Year end picks: the best albums of 2025

At the start of 2025, my family moved back to Oslo after almost 15 years in Northern Norway. Even if it is currently on a let’s-see-what-happens basis, being back in the city has been almost exclusively a good thing. Just in terms of my wor...

5 months ago
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Mid-year picks: 45 + 5 notable releases January through June, 2025

Even going back to the Blogspot days, I have tended to view the start of July as an opportunity to revisit and reassess the new music I’ve heard and examined during the year’s first six months. Since I started writing for Musikkmagasinet at...

10 months ago
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Back in the groove: Quarterly picks, 25 favorite recordings January through March, 2025

The Listening Booth was never intended to be a place to write about personal stuff, but I feel the three month long hiatus here requires a form of explanation. In short, my family and I moved back to Oslo in early January. If for the time b...

a year ago
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Year end picks: 50 favorite albums of 2024

So 2024 is soon coming to an end. A rough year in way too many aspects, but in terms of new music, it’s been glorious. Although I’ve tried to write about as much of that music as possible, either in Klassekampen/Musikkmagasinet, Jazznytt, o...

a year ago
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Midweek pick, November 27th, 2024: The Music of... Oaagaada

Oaagaada: Music Of…(We Jazz Records)

Sami Pekkola: sax & shruti box
Tuure Tammi: trumpet
Tero Kemppainen: double bass
Simo Laihonen: drums & log drum

Since its start in 2016, the We Jazz Records label has been slowly but sure...

a year ago
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    Music scribe, mostly jazz and related idioms, but occasionally pop/rock and semi-pop for Musikkmagasinet, Jazznytt, and others. Used to write the Perfect Sounds blog.

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