''Seafarer's Song'' (released 2004 in Oslo, Norway on the label

EmArcy EmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by the American Mercury Records. The name is a phonetic spelling of "MRC", the initials for Mercury Record Company. During the 1950s and 1960s, musicians such as Max Roach, Clifford Brown ...

– 0602498657775) is an album by the Norwegian pianist Ketil Bjørnstad.

Reception

The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars.

Track listing

#«Seafarer's Song» (2:30) #«He Struggled to the Surface» (6:27) #«Dying To Get To Europe» (3:58) #«Orion» (4:48) #«Tidal Waves» (6:08) #«How Sweet The Moonlight Sleeps Upon This Bank» (3:44) #«Navigator» (5:18) #«Ung Forelsket Kvinne» (5:41) #«The Beach» (3:40) #«Her Voice» (5:04) #«Dreaming of the North» (5:41) #«I Had Been Hungry, All The Years» (2:42) #«The Exile's Line» (3:47) #«When Police Came They Also Hit Me» (4:13) #«Refugees at the Rich Man's Gate» (6:22) #«I Many Times Thought Peace Had Come» (3:46) #«The Night Is Darkening Round Me» (5:53)

Personnel

* Ketil Bjørnstad – piano & keyboards *

Kristin Asbjørnsen Kristin Asbjørnsen (born 12 May 1971) is a Norwegian jazz singer and composer whose focus is on improvised music. She is known for musical projects like Dadafon including with Carl Haakon Waadeland, Krøyt, Kvitretten, and Nymark Collective a ...

– vocals *

Svante Henryson Svante Henryson (born 22 October 1963 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a composer, cellist, bass guitarist and double bassist, active within jazz, classical music, and hard rock. Biography Childhood and studies Svante Henryson grew up in Umeå in northe ...

– cello * Nils Petter Molvær – trumpet * Eivind Aarset – guitar * Bjørn Kjellemyr – double bass * Per Lindvall – drums

Notes

Recorded live at Harstad Kulturhus, Norway, Saturday 21, June 2003, during the festival «Festspillene i Nord-Norge»

References

External links

Ketil Bjørnstad Official Website
2004 albums Ketil Bjørnstad albums EmArcy Records albums Universal Music Norway albums {{2000s-jazz-album-stub