''Seafarer's Song'' (released 2004 in

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on the label

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– 0602498657775) is an album by the Norwegian pianist

Ketil Bjørnstad Ketil Bjørnstad (born 25 April 1952) is a pianist, composer and author. Initially trained as a classical pianist, Bjørnstad discovered jazz at an early age and has embraced the emergence of "European jazz". Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian ...

Reception

The

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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

– piano & keyboards *

Kristin Asbjørnsen Kristin Asbjørnsen (born 12 May 1971) is a Norwegians, 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 Co ...

– vocals *

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

– cello *

Nils Petter Molvær Nils Petter Molvær (), also known as NPM (born 18 September 1960), is a Norwegian jazz trumpeter, composer, and record producer. He is considered a pioneer of future jazz, a genre that fuses jazz and electronic music, best showcased on his most ...

– trumpet *

Eivind Aarset Eivind Aarset (born 23 March 1961) is a Norwegian guitarist and composer. His style has been associated with nu jazz and electronic music, and often makes extensive use of effects to process his guitar. In addition to his work as a bandleader, A ...

– guitar *

Bjørn Kjellemyr Bjørn Kjellemyr (born 4 December 1950 in Bamble, Norway) is a jazz double bassist, known from a variety of musical contexts like Terje Rypdal & The Chasers, Joe Henderson, Bob Berg, Chet Baker, Art Farmer, Pat Metheny, Mike Stern, Dag Arnesen, K ...

– double bass *

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– 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