David Aleksander Sjølie Explained

David Aleksander Sjølie (born 7 May 1988) is a Norwegian jazz guitarist, known from bands like Mopti, married 31 July 2014, to the jazz singer Anja Eline Skybakmoen.

Career

Sjølie was born in Oslo, where he lives and works as a musician, producer and studio engineer. He studied jazz and improvisation at the Norwegian Academy of Music (2013). As a performing musician, he is grounded in different musical traditions such as jazz, pop, country and rock, and is collaborating in bands like Mopti,^[1] Angus and Grandmas Grand. He is teaching guitar in Oslo.

Discography

With Bendik Baksaas Band

• 2012

The Shape of Beats To Come (Dayladore Collective)^[2]

• 2013: 1991 (Aspén)

With Ine Hoem

• 2013: The Island (Impeller Recordings)

With Mopti

• 2013

Logic (Jazzland Recordings)^[3]

• 2015

Bits & Pieces (Jazzland Recordings)^[4]

With Lise Hvoslef

• 2014: Mapping the coincidence (Lise Hvoslef Records)

With Anja

• 2014

We're The Houses (Øra Fonogram)

• 2015: Echo (Triogram)

External links

• • – Musikkhøgskolen var både fødestue og lekestue at Norwegian Academy of Music (in Norwegian)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mopti Biography . Norwegian . JazzINorge.no . 2013-09-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130927185730/http://jazzforum.jazzinorge.no/files/2012/09/Presseskriv-Mopti.pdf . 27 September 2013 . dead .
2. Web site: Bendik Baksaas Band: En vennskapelig affære . Quinn . Le . Norwegian . Hissig.no . 19 November 2013 . 2013-09-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151120063541/http://www.hissig.no/bendik-baksaas-band-en-vennskapelig-affaere/ . 20 November 2015 . dead .
3. Web site: MOPTI utfordrer – Logic Review . Erling . Wicklund . Norwegian . . 17 September 2013 . 2013-09-26.
4. Web site: MOPTI & Bendik Baksaas - Bits & Pieces . Musical reviews . Norwegian . JazzINorge.no . 2015-05-02.