2009 – 2010 In 2009 – 10, Nedland Kultur, in collaboration with Mimeta and the record company KKV, compiled music from Kenya and Tanzania for a CD called “Imagine Africa”. The name of the record is shared with a a campaign organised by Mimeta in Norway, in partnership with the Goree Institute located on Goree Island in Dakar, Senegal. The […]

2010 -2012 Having established a collaboration project between fiddle players Anne Hytta from Norway and Mohamed Issa “Matona” Haji from Zanzibar (see Sibiu Cultural Capital), Nedland Kultur recruited two more musicians and established the N.E.W.S. Quartet.  The N and the S in the name of the group stands for North (Norway) and South (Africa), while […]

2007 ———- ———– ———- Nedland Kultur was asked by the Romanian town Sibiu, which was European Cultural Capital in 2007, to come up with a proposal for a musical project involving Romanian and international artists as part of the cultural program for the “Capital of Culture” year. The project came to involve three artists, from Romania, Zanzibar and […]

1999 ————– “The best collection of my songs that anyone has ever put together”.                                     (Kris Kristofferson) Little did the team working in a studio in Oslo in 1999 know that their work would be so highly appreciated by the artist they were interpreting. Having always considered Kris Kristofferson one of the best songwriters in this world, Nedland […]

2009 ———– “Fight Apathy” is a double CD organised by Nedland Kultur for Christianssands Protestfesival, a festival that has been taking place since 1999 in Kristiansand, Norway. The aim of the festival is to fight against apathy and indifference, and to encourage commitment, tolerance and action. Protest songs. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Protest Fesvial, festival […]

2007 – 2008 A tough female rapper rises out of the streets of Dar Es Salaam and meets up with a male rapper from Norway with a dual cultural background. He is a Norwegian Grammy winner, she is a Coca Cola Popstars winner. They are joined by a multi instrumentalist and electronics wizzard, and the beats start flowing. Nedland Kultur […]

2004 – 2005 Eight female artists, four from Norway, four from four different African countries, met with a band of Tanzanian musicians in Dar Es Salaam in 2004 and 2005 to create music together for the CD “Women Care”. The musical workshop was created by Nedland Kultur, who had been approached  by Care International Norway with a request to […]

2010 – 2011 A chance meeting between Sigbjørn Nedland of Nedland Kultur and Chi Ton at the Mela Festival in Oslo in 2009 led to a collaboration between the two to promote Vietnamese culture in Norway. Terje Vallestad at Cafe Sting joined the team, and the result was two festivals in Stavanger. The “silent” culture. Agreeing that […]

2002 _____ _____ _____ On October 16th 2002, the grand opening of the new Library in Alexandria, Egypt took place, with an audience of dignitaries and royalty from around the world celebrating the opening of this UNESCO sponsored library, which is seen as a resurrection of the centre of wisdom and learning that Bibliotheca Alexandrina used to be in […]

2000 – 2001 A selection of international artists and musicians from Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia, exerpts from the speeches of numerous Nobel Peace Prize laureates, hypnotic drumming, creative arrangements, great instrumentalists, beautiful voices, and a shared commitment to the ideals of the Nobel Peace Prize – That is the the content of the CD “Make Me […]