Lakki Patey
Lakki Patey is an English-Norwegian guitarist and inventor. He moves between musical styles and has also invented the language game and cultural concept New Amigos. He is the younger brother of the jazz guitarist Bent Patey.
Biography
Patey led the bands Some Like It Hot, Hot Cubano and Windflowers. He has toured the US and Europe and has been a guest artist among others with Michael Ruff & The Yellow Jackets. In 1999 released the album Hot Cubano, where he brought four musicians from Cuba to Norway for the recording and a nationwide tour.Patey's compositions are used for teaching materials, as well as on international successes like Café del Mar, A Winter’s Solstice and Northern Lights. The tune Mexico is used in TV commercials for New Amigos in Mexico. In 1985 he created the ambient «Eventyrland» for fanciful scenes in Trollgrotten, contained inside the Troll of Hunderfossen Familiepark.
Discography
Solo albums
- 1985: Taki Taki
- 1985: Eventyrland
- 1995: Musi©alendar, with 12 compositions for solo guitar and re recorded in 1996.
- 1996: Some Like it Hot, musical producer Robbin Millar
- 1996: Musi©alendar, with Lithuanian Symphony Orchestra, music arranged by Michael Gibbs and music arranged by Michael Gibbs
- 1999: Miami Latino, recorded over a two-year period in places like Los Angeles, Miami and Oslo, including with Michael Ruff & The Yellow Jackets as well as Latvian Symphony Orchestra
- 1999: Hot Cubano
- 1999: Mexico, musical production by Jam & Delgado
Collaborations
;With Øystein Sevåg- 1983: Windflowers, nominated for the Spellemannprisen
- 1993: Link
- 1994: Visual, named by Wind & Wire magazine in USA as «Best Ambient Album of the Year» 1996.
- 1995: Global House
- 2002: Amor Fati, with Kristin Flood
- 2005: Caravan
- 1985: The Further You Go, including with Sidsel Endresen
- 1988: ''Romanse''