cinematic Jazz From Iceland

• Guitar Poetry (ACT, 2024) ★★★★½ “…an impressionistic gem.” - Downbeat

• “A lyrical and cinematic voice in modern jazz.”
  — All About Jazz

• “There’s a strong sense of wide-eyed dreaming about the compositions... the music blurring the waking and sleeping worlds”
  - Jazzwise 

• Innermost (Bad taste records, 2023)  Album of the Year, Icelandic Music Awards

• Featured on BBC Radio; one track has reached 1.2M+ streams on Spotify.

Bio

Mikael Máni is a guitarist and composer from Iceland whose music blends mood-driven jazz with cinematic storytelling. His most recent releases include Guitar Poetry (ACT, 2024), praised by DownBeat with a 4½-star review, and Innermost (Smekkleysa, 2023), which won Album of the Year at the Icelandic Music Awards. His earlier work has been featured on BBC Radio, and one of his tracks has reached over 1.2 million streams on Spotify. Raised in a household filled with more than 10,000 LPs from his father’s record shop, Mikael grew up surrounded by music and first discovered guitar at age 12. Today he creates intimate, lyrical compositions that balance improvisation with cinematic scope, often collaborating with leading Nordic and international musicians. “His upcoming album Half Sun continues this path, weaving moods and stories into cinematic instrumental jazz.”

Featured tracks from My upcoming album Half Sun:

Listen to 3 track preview          

• Half Sun — cinematic & atmospheric 

• Cases — dramatic emotional scope

• July Song — driving groove &  lyrical 

Contact & Downloads

Booking Iceland: Booking Europe & Worldwide:
email: mikaelm27@gmail.com Booker: management.adhdiceland@gmail.com
phone: (+354) 6591820 Manager: asmundj@smekkleysa.com

Downloads: PDF version of EPK.pdf Press Photos