Christian Winther is a highly sought after guitarist and tireless collaborator in the Norwegian avant garde scene. His album, Urfuglen (2022), was awarded Norwegian album of the year by Klassekampen in Norway, and he recently released his third solo release, Sculptures From Under the City Ice, described by Norwegian newspaper DN as «For the past ten years, Christian Winther (35) from Ålesund has been among the guitar’s innovators, a kind of indie rock auteur within the framework of jazz and contemporary music.»
He has toured extensively throughout Europe, Japan, and South America both solo and with various rock bands and experimental ensembles, and collaborated with artists such as Mats Gustafsson, Anja Lauvdal and Lasse Marhaug. Without compromising his touching sincerity, Winther’s approach is roguish, playful.
Other active involvements include his longterm experimental trio Monkey Plot (Hubro), guitarist for Selma French, and new trio with Espen Reinertsen and Anja Lauvdal (SOFA). Among Winther’s previous bands are noise band Ich Bin N!ntendo (Shhpuma), alternative jazz group Torg (Jazzland) and indie duo Listen to Girl (SusannaSonata), and as part of Trondheim Jazz Orchestra.
Winther has also been curating the acknowledged All Ears Festival for Improvised Music at the MUNCH museum in Oslo, and is running the innovative artist residency space Studio Martin in Røros, Norway, as well as his own label Earthly Habit. In 2024 he and his partner Anja Lauvdal started a small studio and improvised label called To Furuer.
DISCOGRAPHY
Sculptures From Under the City Ice (Earthly Habit 2025, LP/Digital)
Urfuglen (Fysisk Format 2022, LP/Digital)
The Clearing (Fysisk Format 2021, LP/Digital)
In bands/other projects:
Selma French – Changes Like the Weather in the Mountain (Grappa 2022 – LP/Digital)
Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Johan Lindvall – Om Du Reser Mycket (MNJ 2021 – CD/Digital)
Torg – Vår (Earthly Habit 2020, EP/Digital)
Listen to Girl – Long-term World (Earthly Habit 2019, LP/digital)
Torg – Palms, Beaches, Dreams (Earthly Habit 2019, LP/Digital)
Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Skrap – Antropocen (Fanfare 2017 – LP/Digital)
Monkey Plot – Here I Sit, Knowing All of This (Hubro 2016, LP/digital)
Listen to Girl – Sea And Dirt (SusannaSonata/Vilje 2016, LP/digital)
Ich Bin N!ntendo – Lykke (Shhpuma 2016, LP/CD/Digital)
Karokh – Needle, Thread and Nailpolish (No Forevers 2016, LP/digital)
Monkey Plot & Pär Thörn – Osvensk Stämning (self-released ltd cassette/digital)
Monkey Plot & Frode Gjerstad – Monkey Plot & Frode Gjerstad (FMR Records 2015, CD)
Monkey Plot – Angående Omstendigheter Som Ikke Lar Seg Nedtegne (Hubro 2015, LP/CD/digital)
Torg – Kost/Elak/Gnäld (Jazzland Recordings 2015, CD/Digital)
Ich Bin N!ntendo – Look (Vafongool 2014, LP/CD/digital)
Mummu – En Verden I Forandring (Vafongool 2014, 7″ vinyl)
Karokh – Karokh (Loyal Label 2014, LP/CD/digital)
Christian Winther / Christian Meaas Svendsen – W/M (Vafongool 2013, CD/digital)
Mummu – Mitt Ferieparadis (Vafongool 2013, 7″ vinyl)
Monkey Plot – Løv Og Lette Vimpler (Gigafon 2013, LP/CD/digital)
Ich Bin N!ntendo & Mats Gustafsson (Vafongool 2012, LP/CD/digital)
In compilations:
Frijazz Mot Rasisme – solo “Bølgebryterstein” (Smalltown Supersound 2022 – LP/Digital)
Being for the Benefit of Kafé Hærverk! – Winther/Lauvdal/Reinertsen “Tapt i paradiset” (Hærverk Industrier 2021 – Digital)
HÅP Musikk for medmenneskelighet – Anja Lauvdal og Christian Winther “Dagdrømmer” (Jazzland 2020 – CD box/Digital)
CONTACT
c(at)christianwinther.no