"I am always looking for a sound where one note tells a story. One must find the right note, and play it." - Ale Moller "Jazz was my first real love story in music, swing music and be-bop music. Clifford Brown was my hero." But when was in his early twenties, he met Christos Mitrencis, a Greek musician living in Malmö, Sweden, where Möller grew up. He listened to him playing the bouzouki and the course of Swedish folk music suffered a mild tremor, a warning shock of things to come. "I really, really liked the sound. I asked him if he would teach me to play the bouzouki... I spent a lot of time learning the music, rembetika music especially." So much so that he was regularly visiting Greece, and spent three years playing with Neo Minore's orchestra, an ensemble that was often joined by famed composer Mikis Theodorakis. What Möller learned from this experience was more than written music and instrumental finesse. "After a long time [in Greece] I realized that the strength of that music, to the Greek people, doesn't have to do with melodies or notes; it is primarily about identity and through music, a connection to your own history. Slowly I was realizing that for my own story I had to go back and try to understand where we come from, we crazy Scandinavians."