Moers is the question criticises

To criticise music is often best reserved for long established journalistes who can process historical facts in order to categorise new artists. Yet, pupils from the Geschwister-Scholl School in Moers set out to unreservedly deal with Nils Petter Molvaer as well as Igmar Thomas & The Cypher and recorded their impressions.
Their written criticisms, in German, can be found here.

However, I'd like to translate a few excerpts. The Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer certainly left some deep impressions:

Already the first couple of secondes capture the listener. The calmness conveyed by the music transfers the listerner into a sort of 'trance', I would say.

Nils Petter Molvaer allows many different tones to interweave, some of them sounding orientalistic, and others quite unusual, which one cannot directly categorise,  but this makes the whole thing very interesting. I find his music has a depth in which one can lose oneself but which is also thoroughly relaxing.

Igmar Thomas & The Cypher:

Igmar Thomas & The Cypher - a kind of band one seldom hears!
The mixture of hip hop and jazz sounds refreshing, but can just as quickly unsettle the nerves. By their song-to-song alteration of the tone, this band manages to create an atmosphere in which one can completely relax. However, at the same time, one is often shaken up by queer tone sequences.

Jazz is my one and only, and when my colleague gave me the album by Igmar Thomas and said that I might like it, I didn't think anything bad of it. However, when I first gave it a listen, my breath crystallised as if I was climbing Mount Everest without any equipment.

Nils Petter Molvaer will be performing on Friday night, and Igmar Thomas & The Cypher on Saturday.