Teitur is, in fact, totally continental!” Winning Teitur’s trust isn’t just funny business–it’s an honor to orchestrate for such an accomplished composer. I like it when you don’t know what’s going to happen next and the track provides a perfect pivotal point for the album.” Van Dyke Parks said: “ Teitur’s music reminds me why I go nuts over island music. I was blown away when he said he wanted to do it and by the score that he sent back, which we went on to record in Holland. “The song seemed to call out for an orchestral arrangement, so I sent the track over to LA for Van Dyke’s thoughts. Parks had met Teitur when they were on the same bill in Athens, Georgia and wrote to him to say how much he had enjoyed the performance, expressing the hope that they might work together. Set in the middle of the album, like a sparkling jewel is “It’s Not Funny Anymore” which features an epic orchestral arrangement by the legendary Van Dyke Parks (Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys etc). More than 70 musicians and singers ranging in age from 8-80 were brought together for the recording, with choirs. In 2013 he released the album Story Music, including the singles “Rock and Roll Band” and “It’s not funny anymore”.
In November, Teitur took a break to tour Holland with the famous Dutch wind orchestra, the Netherlands Blazers Ensemble, performing the music to the short film, Everyday Song, which he commissioned and was screened simultaneously. These solo recordings, were featured during a world tour which ran from September to January 2013 and also served to try out and develop the news songs written for Story Music. Teitur released a 4 track EP in September 2012 entitled Four Songs. In the meantime, Seal recorded Teitur’s song “ You Get Me” as a duet with Italian superstar Mina and then recorded it for his own album, which was a top 20 hit around the world. A worldwide tour followed over the next 18 months. Betty Hedges was the first UK single while in the rest of the world “You Never Leave L.A.” was the lead, accompanied by an astounding animated video. During 2010, he recorded his again acclaimed album, ‘ Let the Dog Drive Home’ in Denmark. Teitur continued his eclectic career path, co-writing and performing with American contemporary film musician Nico Muhly (who scored the film The Reader), and by writing for and producing other artists, including French star Nolwenn. there’s more than enough evidence here to bear out Teitur’s assertion, in the title-track, that “all my mistakes have become masterpieces”. Achieving his second Album of The Week in The Independent, Andy Gill wrote of the album: “. Then in October 2009, came the UK only release ‘ All My Mistakes’, which was a retrospective album of Teitur’s career to date. Garnering five star reviews in The Guardian (“ deep, viscous stuff that is never less than extraordinary”) and The Independent (“ a rare beast“), while the Sunday Times praised the singer-songwriter’s ” wonderfully idiosyncratic talent“. Third album, The Singer, recorded in a Swedish Princess’s house in Gotland, was released in 2008 in Europe and early 2009 in the UK, his first album to be issued in Britain. By 2008, he had 700 gigs in 20 countries under his belt, earning him the reputation of one of the hardest working International artists on the road.
In 2006, he released his second album Stay Under The Stars, a record full of richer writing and bolder characters, which went Gold in Denmark and two Danish Grammies followed. During this time, he found the time to co-write the song Choux Pastry Heart on the 4M selling debut album by Corinne Bailey Rae. Its simple, sincere songs made it a critical hit and he toured the USA and Canada extensively and attracted the attention of artists like Rufus Wainwright, Aimee Mann and KT Tunstall, all of whom took him on tour. In 2003, Teitur released his first album, Poetry & Aeroplanes. He was convinced that if he wanted to follow his dream of making his own music he had to go somewhere with the access to the technology and musical professionalism that he felt wasn’t available at home. Teitur (Tie-tor), left his homeland, the remote, beautiful, wild and weather beaten Faroe Islands in the far North Atlantic as a teenager.