As backer and composer, trumpeter Sjur Miljeteig has a lot to show for. Early member of Jaga Jazzist. Two albums released under the name of Friko collaborating with Peder Kjellsby in the early 2000's. The cooperation with Solveig Slettahjell in various Slow Motion-compositions. And lately his time has been spent at the theatre, where he contributes with the music for the Norwegian National Theatre's reenactment of Haugtussa - a play where Miljeteigs wife Ane Dal Torp holds the leading role.

As band leader Miljeteig hasn't made much of himself, if we look apart from the mentioned duo. This, however, ended last fall when Miljeteig first held a conert with a band of his own during Oslo Jazzfestival, and then released his first solo-album It's Funny How Things Happen at Particular Times at Parkteateret in the same city a little later in the fall.

- We're planning a large tour this fall, but our first concert since the release of the album will actually be in Molde, Miljeteig told Moldejazz.no

Last years album is a playful and well-produced mix of hushed and extended, playful and distorted, and the outright orchestral. Sweet electro-pop glides into staccato, distroted trumpet.

In VG the album was described as "pop-music from the future" in what the newspaper's Carl Petter Opsahl reviews as "both medieval and futuristic at the same time, with epic accumulations like "It's A Strange World Sandy" and crazy pop-funks as in "A Peculiar Event".

The die showed 5 eyes!

Joining him on stage is Per Oddvar Johansen on drums, Per Olav Torget on guitar, and Øystein Skar and Marte Eberson on keys.