ol' burger beats: piano pieces
Francisco Espregueira
Norwegian producer Ol' Burger Beats (Ole-Birger Neergård) has spent over a decade crate-digging for dusty jazz gems, but his latest project finds the gold much closer to home. Self-released on his own imprint, the new instrumental mini-album Piano Pieces sees the Oslo-based beatmaker turning his sampler towards the works of his own father, Hans Peter Neergård. It is a concept that feels incredibly personal yet perfectly aligned with the producer's established aesthetic of warm, crackling loops and laid-back rhythms.
Drawing from his father’s recent albums Til deg (2023) and Evening Light (2025)—records that Ol' Burger Beats actually encouraged him to record and produced himself—the son now flips the script to reinterpret the source material. The result is a touching spiritual jazz beat tape where the generational gap is bridged by a shared love for melody. The project captures a unique dialogue between father and son, blending Hans Peter’s piano and saxophone compositions with Ole-Birger’s signature chopped production style to create some of his finest, most emotive work to date. It drops this friday and it will be available on vinyl.