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Mikkel Ploug
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Danish guitarist and composer Mikkel Ploug (b.1978) has performed all over Europe, Brazil and the US with his bands Mikkel Ploug Group, Mikkel Ploug Trio and Equilibrium. He has recorded 12 albums for internationally reknowned labels such as Sunnyside Records (USA), Whirlwind (UK) Fresh Sounds New Talent (ES) Songlines Recordings (CA). Mikkel has performed as a soloist with The Royal Ballet in Copenhagen and works with american choreographer and dancer Tilman O’Donnell.
His solo album Alleviation has over 2 million plays on Spotify and his 2018 album “Faroe” was selected for the Grammy category “Best Instrumental Jazz Album”.
Hope
By Mikkel Ploug
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Daybreak; Winter Lullaby ; Hope; Tung Morke Natteskyer; East West; Chant; Before; Tit Er Jeg Glad; The Star Crossed
Lovers; Danilo; Summer Song
Tal Yahalom, Mikkel Ploug, Ambrose Akinmusire, Thomas Naïm & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
A playlist focusing on recent outstanding guitar albums, with two cherrys on top, the latest releases by Kjetil Mulelid and Ambrose Akinmusire.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Mikkel Ploug Trio “Chant" Hope (Songlines) 0:16 Host talks 5:09 Thomas Naïm “Manic Depression" May This Be ...
Mikkel Ploug Reunites With His Original Trio To Release 'Hope' On Songlines Recordings
Danish guitarist-composer Mikkel Ploug has had a long association with Songlines. The first of three recordings by the avant chamber-jazz trio Equilibrium, which he co-leads with Sissel Vera Pettersen and Joachim Badenhorst, appeared in 2009, and those were followed by two solo acoustic guitar titles, Alleviation (2017) and Day in the Sun (2022). Hope is the ...
Day in the Sun
By Mikkel Ploug
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: Nocturne;
Daybreak;
Over the Hills;
Day in the Sun;
Rosette;
Robledo;
April;
Dance of Minor Motive;
Afterthought;
Mosaic;
Hymn in E;
Barcarola;
Nighttide;
Isolde’s Song.
Sun-Mi Hong, Avram Fefer, Song Yi Jeon, Vinícius Gomes & More New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
Tons of new releases ahoy... We feature some that bring unbridled energy, with a focus on South Korean and North European artists, and a tribute to the French master of humour, erotism, subversion and wordplay, Serge Gainsbourg.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Donny McCaslin ...
April
Album: Day in the Sun
By Mikkel Ploug
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2022
Duration: 3:28
January 2022
by Pat Youngspiel
Bendik Hofseth Roots C+C records 2022 The second act in the Norwegian saxophonist's Forest tetralogy, Roots focuses around Bendik Hofseth's chamber-jazz qualities in the company of a string quartet plus guitarist Eivind Aarset and percussionist Per Oddvar Johansen, who both return for a second time out after 2020's Trunks. ...
Balcony Lullabies
By Mikkel Ploug
Label: Stunt Records/Sundance Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Det er i dag et vejr (The Weather Today Is); Elefantens vuggevise (Elephant's Lullaby);
Vårvise (Spring Ballad); Somewhere Over The Rainbow; Julia; Solen så rød, mor (The Sun
Is So Red, Mother); The Nearness Of You; Jeg ved en lærkerede (I Know Of A Lark's
Nest); Stille, hjerte, sol går ned (Quiet Heart, Sun Goes Down); Hilsen til forårssolen
(Spring Greetings To The Sun); You Are My Sunshine; Du kom med alt det der var dig (You
Came With All That Was You); Under stjernerne på himlen (Under The Stars In The Sky).
Mikkel Ploug: Balcony Lullabies
by Dan Bilawsky
Upset, isolated and frustrated during the early stages of the near-global COVID-19 quarantine, Danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug did what he does best; he picked up his instrument and started playing. Sitting on his balcony and reflecting on the moment, Ploug set beauty in strings, allowing his sound to hold aloft. His appreciative neighbors listened with rapt ...
