Kristian Nord

Kristian Nord is one of those artists who fell in love with music before everything else. For a long time, he worked as a musician, composer, producer and everything in-between in Hamburg. Then, 15 years ago, something called him. Nobody knows whether it was the sound of music or the call of the waves that lured the passionate surfer away from Northern Germany to California’s sun-drenched Pacific coast. Here, in Venice Beach, he has long found a second home. His first session in his new home was with The Doors drummer John Densmore – not the worst way to start a new chapter. And yet, it was only the beginning for Nord, the first pebble that started rolling. Alongside with his partner in crime, a second Hamburg expat named Malte Hagemeister, Nord is living his very own American dream under the California sun: They are a part of internationally renowned indie band The Great Escape, they are working on humanitarian causes, they produce aspiring artists and create momentous image films for some of the world’s strongest brands. Records he has been working on sold millions of copies and he is a member of the Grammy jury. His fist solo album The Rest is a Gift – an electro-orchestral hybrid of pure beauty, is dedicated to his late father who died when he was Nord’s age.