Wetle Holte

Wetle Holte
Born	(1973-09-04) 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.

Career

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)

Discography

Solo albums

• 2012: Hurricane (Sonne Disk), feat. Kirsti Huke

Collaborative works

Within Wibutee

• 1998: Newborn Thing (Jazzland)
• 2001: Eight Domestic Challenges (Jazzland)
• 2004: Playmachine (Jazzland)
• 2006: Sweet Mental (Sonne Disk)

With Eivind Aarset

• 2001: Light Extracts (Jazzland), within Électronique Noire
• 2004: Connected (Jazzland)
• 2007: Sonic Codex (Jazzland)
• 2010: Live Extracts (Jazzland), within The Sonic Codex Orchestra

Within Jazzland Community

• 2007: Jazzland Community (Jazzland)

Within Grand Telemark

• 2008: Grand Telemark (Sonne Disk)