When I Like to Sleep first emerged, the Norwegian instrumental trio’s sound combined polar opposites. Vibraphonist Amund Storløkken Åse, six-string-bass/guitar player Nicolas Leirtrø and drummer Øyvind Leite were all schooled jazz musicians, and they all liked to rock, so they put the two together by combining vibes-forward post-bebop jazz with hammer-of-the-gods riffs.
Ten years and five albums down the road, they’ve filled in that middle space with studio sound manipulation and additional instrumentation. Amplification and effects have transformed the sounds that roll away from Storløkken Åse’s vibraphone from pure waves to sodium-vapor bursts. And he spends as much time playing Mellotron as mallets, a move that’s…

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