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Michala ?stergaard-Nielsen
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Michala Østergaard-Nielsen, award-winning drummer/percussionist and composer, lives in Tisvilde, a small Village near Copenhagen.
Michala is a highly interesting musician with a personal voice on the nordic music scene today and is described as "having an almost zen-like attitude towards drumming, improvisation and music”.
She began playing the piano at the age of 6 - first classical music, then jazz - and attended MGK (Musical Basic Course/preparatory course for Music Conservatory) in Nykøbing F. (1992-1995) focusing on rhythmic piano. At the age of 20, Michala took up drums as a secondary instrument during her third year at MGK, ultimately making it her primary instrument.
The Cave
Label: ILK Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Cave; My Spirit Heart; Improv #1; T.B.A.; Nine Tone Story; Into the Light; Improv #2; A Smile of a
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Michala ?stergaard-Nielsen: The Poetic Vibrations of Drumming
by Dean Nardi
Michala ?stergaard-Nielsen is a jazz drummer from Denmark, a country with a rich tradition of women playing drums. Once during a lesson with Gerald Cleaver, she was told you could either play drums upon sound or upon a pattern. “That really opened the doors for me to not think just the technical things, but listen to ...
Lucia Cadotsch, Michala ?stergaard-Nielsen, Andreas Schaerer, Patrick Zimmerli & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Modern-day sonic storytelling in a playlist characterized by tunes with a strong narrative trait.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Jim Funnell's Word Out “Asteroid B612" New Dream (Funnelljazz) 0:16 Host talks 6:23 Patrick Zimmerli “60 Morningside" Songs of Innocence (Emergence) 7:50 Host talks 14:09 ...
The Cave
Album: The Cave
By Michala ?stergaard-Nielsen
Label: ILK Music
Released: 2025
Duration: 05:37
Marilyn Crispell: Fearless, Deeply Sensitive and Shaping the Moment
by Dean Nardi
As Marilyn Crispell talked about her multitude of recent recordings, either solo or with this trio or that quartet, she mentioned needing to pack her bags before going out on tour. She has lived in Woodstock, New York since 1977 and is comfortable there. “When I'm at home, not out recording, I look out in the ...
Marilyn Crispell, Thommy Andersson, Michala ?stergaard-Nielsen: The Cave
by Mike Jurkovic
A temporal fragility warmly embraces as the The Cave opens with the title cut. And since a vast portion of the world's troubled population holds a childhood fear of caves and the potential human criteria that bound rowdy from them, things could get tricky. But they do not. Marilyn Crispell, in what could be another defining ...
David's Angels: Traces
by Luca Muchetti
Lo spirito del grande nord converge in questo album, frutto della collaborazione fra la trombettista canadese Ingrid Jensen e la formazione svedese composta da Sofie Norling alla voce ed elettronica, Maggi Olin al pianoforte e Fender Rhodes, David Carlsson al basso elettrico e Michala Østergaard-Nielsen alla batteria e percussioni. David's Angels, che anche in questa produzione ...
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