Hi, I’m Stíne. I love to make music, to write and to take pictures. I live in a beautiful village in Alver, Western Norway. You can listen to my music here.
Bio written by Rebecca Smith
Stine Norse speaks and sings with an English accent that you can’t quite place. You have to really pay attention to notice that she is, in fact, Scandinavian. This is no surprise; she has spent a considerable part of her adult life in North London, absorbing contemporary and cross-cultural folk music there and carving out her niche in the arts scene. But it would be wrong to say that she is London-based. She is based both in London and on the west coast of Norway.
Once you start listening to her music, you begin to notice the presence of both worlds: the busy metropolis combined with the sublime landscapes of the Northern wastes. The modern auditory world of London melded with the sparse and timeless open sea and sky of the North. For many years, Stine was torn between the two worlds: one of bustle and culture, the other of serenity and nature. She couldn’t settle or decide on one or the other. She has now accepted herself as a seasonal migrant between the two. A bird flitting between north and south as instinct dictates.
Stine’s hallmark is her voice. Her voice is clear, direct and comes straight from the heart. This directness, coupled with the earthy connectedness of her lyrics and acoustic echoes of piano and guitar, places her sound on the ambient folk spectrum.
“The Whale” EP was her first official release; a mixture of acoustic longings and electronic musings. Four songs that sound like Leonard Cohen and Erik Satie meeting over absinthe in a pub somewhere in Highbury.
MUSIC & NATURE 