MIKKEL NORDSOE (born 1955)Autodidact allmost! At the age of 11, he studiedflamenco guitar at Christian Sievert.
15 years old, he became a member of PalleMikkelborgs project V8, and the pioneer latin/funk group Buki-yamaz. As an instrumental frontperson in Sneakers and Anima (1980-85) he added rockguitarplaying, new dimensions in DK. Starting MikkelNordsø Band in 1985 he created a platform for composing, which can be heardon MNB’s 7 albums. On the 3 albumswith Acoustic Guitars, 2 albums withBombay Hotel and 1 album with Timewave he contributes as a composer,as well as developing his skills on the acoustic guitar. Again as the maincomposer he released in 2008 the DUO album with Tine Rehling(harp), the Blue Lotus album(2009) and his solo album Five steps 2 seven (featuring Terri Lyne Carrington). (2010)
M.N. has recorded/performed with an endless number of renowned artistin DK and abroad, has toured all over the world. Played live at LakshminarayanaGlobal festival 2005 with a.o. Dr. L.Subramaniam, Kavita Krishnamurti, Stanley Clarke and George Duke. In 2004 RaulRekow (US) joines MN Band when not touring with Santana. In 2005 MN Bandplayed at Bombay and Dehli jazzfestival, and 2006 at Hua Hin JazzfestivalThailand. 2007 he was touring DK with Lan Doky project featuring DavidSanborn, Randi Brecker, Terri Lyne Carrington, Gino Vanelli and Lisa NilsonIn 2009 and 2010 he played Rio Harp Festival with Blue Lotus. In 2010 he played Rochester jazzfestival(USA) andLondon jazzfestival with PalleMikkelborg and Marilyn Mazur. 2011playd live with Nona Hendryx and Terri Lyne Carrington in DK. 2012 Played live and recorded with Shashank and Patri SatishKumar at the ”India today” festival.
Played as studiomusician on about 200 albums and playedlive/recorded with among others EtienneM’bappe (Cameroun), Bob Mallach(John Abercrombie (USA), Guinga and Carlos Malta (Brasil) HabibKoite(Mali) Toumani Diabate(Mali), Basikou Kyate (Mali) Moussa Diallo (Mali) Mustafa Bakbou (Maroc) Mokthar Gania (Maroc), Johny Diany (South Africa) YounSun Nah (Korea) Gary Burton (US) Tommy Emmanuel (Australia) Per Jørgensen, and Niels Peter Molvar (Norway) PalleMikkelborg, NHØP, Marilyn Mazur, Kenneth Knudsen, Thomas Clausen, Danish RadioBig Band, Ars Nova Chorus .
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