John Hegre


John Hegre is a Norwegian guitarist, songwriter and sound engineer. He has collaborated in bands like Der Brief and Public Enema, together with drummer Nils Are Drønen since 1995.

Career

Hegre is one of the cornerstones of Norwegian noise music. He completed the sound engineer education at Norwegian lydskole in Oslo, and subsisted for several years as a sound engineer until he decided to make his own music to his main focus at the end of the 1990s.
Hegre started Jazzkammer together with Lasse Marhaug in 1998, and Kaptein Kaliber with David Aasheim in 1999. He is also involved in Golden Serenades with Jørgen Træen, Black Packers with Jean-Philippe Gross, Rehab with Bjørnar Habbestad, Tree People with Morten J. Olsen and Ignaz Schick, NOXAGT with Kjetil Brandsdal and Jan Christian L. Kyvik, Bergen Impro Storband, Skurkeklubben with David Aasheim, Jørgen Træen and Bjørn Torske, Tralten Eller Utpult with Thore Warland and Kristoffer Riis.

Discography

;Solo albums
;As John Hegre/Lasse Marhaug/Helge Sten
;As John Hegre/Lasse Marhaug
;As John Hegre/Lasse Marhaug/Y Yoshida
;As John Hegre/Maja Ratkje
;As John Hegre/Howard Stelzer
;As John Hegre/Lene Grenager/Harald Fetveit/Else Olsen S
;As John Hegre & Marcelo Aguirre & Die Polizei
;As Irabagon, Hegre & Drønen