Sea View Nordsø & Theill

• 1 Crystal Reflection 05:20
• 2 Beam Me Up 06:35
• 3 Sea View 05:32
• 4 A Piece For Peace 07:18
• 5 Standing Stones 07:20
• 6 Tabla Journey 05:36
• Total Runtime 37:41

Info for Sea View

Experimental jazz duo Nordsø & Theill present their new album Sea View. Mikkel Nordsø and Ole Thiell are no newcomers. Since the late 1970’s they have both been influential key players in Copenhagen’s jazz scene as well as in international circuits, recording and performing with such greats as Santana, L. Subramaniam, Jan Akkerman and George Duke to name but a few.

Experimental jazz duo Nordsø & Theill release their fourth album, Sea View, on Music For Dreams. A gorgeous suite of meandering world-fusion material to soothe our hassled psyches.

Two masters of the Danish scene, Mikkel Nordsø and Ole Theill have been around since the late 70’s. What connects them is a lifelong commitment to their craft. Theill as a tablaist, who journeyed to India to study under tabla master Ishwar Lal Mishra. Nordsø as a guitarist whose abilities extend to the sitar, the oud, the n’goni and more.

Sea View continues where the first three albums left off, incorporating new world-spanning influences in a suave, shapeshifting sound. Each song is a meandering dialogue between Nordsø (melody) and Theill (rhythm), blooming and intensifying with instrumental splendor before resolving in gentle waves. Two tracks (‘Sea View’ and ‘Beam Me Up’) introduce a third interlocuter, the jazz vocalist Carolina Franceska.

A work of rare musical fluency with two lifetimes of instrumental wisdom behind it. We hope you enjoy.

Since the late 1970's they have both been influential key players in Copenhagen’s jazz scene as well as in international circuits, recording and performing with such greats as Santana, L. Subramaniam, Jan Akkerman and George Duke to name but a few. The new album has been supported from Koda’s Cultural Funds.



NORDSØ & THEILL

Mikkel Nordsø
Autodidact almost! At the age of 11, he studied flamenco guitar at Christian Sievert. 15 years old, he became a member of Palle Mikkelborgs project V8, and the pioneer latin/funk group Buki-yamaz. As an instrumental front person in Sneakers and Anima (1980-85) he added rockguitar playing, new dimensions in DK. Starting Mikkel Nordsø Band in 1985 he created a platform for composing, which can be heard on MNB’s 9 albums. On the 3 albums with Acoustic Guitars, 2 albums with Bombay Hotel and he contributes as a composer, as well as developing his skills on the acoustic guitar. Again as the main composer on the acoustic guitar he released in 2003 1 album with Timewave, in 2008 the DUO album with Tine Rehling (harp), 2 albums with Blue Lotus album(2009 -2014) and 3 albums with Nordsø & Theill (2017-19 ) Also as the main composer on the electric guitar he released his solo album Five Steps 2 Seven (featuring Terri Lyne Carrington). (2010), ”Out There” with Mikkel Nordsø Quartet (featuring Alvin Queen)(2020) and Mikkel Nordsø Band ”NINE” (2021)

Mikkel Nordsø has recorded/performed with an endless number of renowned artist in DK and abroad, has toured in Scandinavia, Europe, Greenland, Faro islands, USA, Canada, Brasil, Mexico, Guatemala, Indonesia, Marokko, South Africa, Ghana, Mali , South Korea, India and Thailand. (Lakshminarayana Global festival 2005 with a.o. Dr. L. Subramaniam, Kavita Krishnamurti, Stanley Clarke and George Duke) and Copenhagen Jazzfestival 2005 With Thomas Clausen oktet featuring Gary Burton (US) In 2004 Raul Rekow (US) joines Mikkel Nordsø Band when not touring with Santana. In 2005 Mikkel Nordsø band played at Bombay and Dehli jazzfestival, and 2006 at Hua Hin Jazzfestival Thailand. 2007 and Essaoura Gnawa festival 2016. He was touring DK with Lan Doky project featuring David Sanborn, Randi Brecker, Terri Lyne Carrington, Gino Vanelli and Lisa Nilson In 2009 and 2010 he played Rio Harp Festival with Blue Lotus. In 2010 he played Rochester jazzfestival(USA) and London jazzfesival with Palle Mikkelborg and Marilyn Mazur.

Played as studio musician on about 200 albums, film scores, theater music, ballet music, radio and TV appearance and played live/recorded with among others Terri Lyne Carrington (USA), Etienne M’bappe (Cameroun), Bob Mallach(USA), Randy Brecker USA), David Sanborn USA), John Abercrombie (USA), Gino Vanelli USA), Guinga and Carlos Malta (Brasil) Chuim (Brasil) Habib Koite(Mali) Toumani Diabate (Mali), Basikou Kyate (Mali) Moussa Diallo (Mali) Basiro Souso (Gambia) Mustafa Bakbou (Maroc) Mokthar Gania (Maroc), Johny Diany (South Africa) Youn Sun Nah (Korea)Subramaniam, Kavita Krishnamurti (india) Stanley Clarke and George Duke (US) Gary Burton ( US) Tommy Emmanuel (Australia) Per Jørgensen, and Niels Peter Molvar (Norway) Palle Mikkelborg, Niels Henning Oersted Petersen, Marilyn Mazur, Kenneth Knudsen, Thomas Clausen, Danish Radio Big Band, Ars Nova Chorus.

Ole Theill
is a Danish percussionist and composer. He has spent a solid lifetime studying classical Indian music in Benares, India. He studied the tablas, his weapon of choice, under the master Ishwar Lal Mishra.

Since the 70’s, he’s featured on more than a hundred records, composing for TV and film, playing with people such as C.V. Jørgensen, Savage Rose and Van Morrison. In ‘89 he formed the world-jazz-fusion group Bombay Hotel alongside Mikkel Nordsø and Kenneth Knudsen.

He has further collaborated with Mikkel Nordsø on a number of projects, including two recent records released under the group Nordsø & Theill. Transparent is the fourth album under his own name.

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