Silje Nergaard - Be Still My Heart - The Essential

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:13
Size: 157,0 MB
Art: Front

(5:03)  1. Be Still My Heart
(4:40)  2. We should be happier by now
(4:46)  3. Shame On You
(4:58)  4. Dance Me Love
(4:40)  5. I don`t wanna see you cry
(4:21)  6. If You Leave Me Now
(5:24)  7. On and on
(3:06)  8. Me Oh My
(4:12)  9. The Waltz
(5:00) 10. Tell Me Where You're Going
(5:35) 11. How am I supposed to see the stars
(3:46) 12. Keep On Backing Losers
(4:24) 13. Japanese Blue
(3:39) 14. Lullaby To Erle
(4:33) 15. Ga en annen vei

Silje Nergaard is an award-winning Norwegian jazz-pop singer/songwriter who peaked in popularity after the turn of the century with the chart-topping albums At First Light (2001) and Nightwatch (2003). Born on June 19, 1966, in Steinkjer, Norway, she cites influences that include Al Jarreau and Joni Mitchell. As a teenager she became something of a national sensation when she joined an impromptu jam session at the 1983 Molde Internasjonal Jazz Festival. In 1984 she made her solo recording debut with a 7" single, "One of These Mornings"/"My Funny Valentine," released on PolyGram. Several years later she signed a recording deal with Lifetime Records and made her full-length album debut with Tell Me Where You're Going (1990), the first of three English-language jazz-pop albums produced and co-written by Richard Niles. The highlights of these early albums, the others being Silje (1991) and Cow on the Highway (1995), were later compiled on the best-of collection The Lifetime Years (2005). After parting ways with Lifetime Records, Nergaard released a couple Norwegian-language albums on the label Kirkelig Kulturverksted: Brevet (1995) and Hjemmefra (1996). Upon signing a major-label recording deal with Universal Music, Nergaard broke through to mainstream success in 2000 with Port of Call, a full-length English-language effort comprised largely of cover material. Port of Call was a Top Ten hit on the Norwegian albums chart and set the stage for her chart-topping follow-up albums, At First Light (2001) and Nightwatch (2003). Like Port of Call, these two albums feature a quartet comprised of Tord Gustavsen (piano, Rhodes), Harald Johnsen (acoustic bass), and Jarle Vespestad (drums), in addition to Nergaard (vocals). Almost entirely self-composed, Nightwatch was especially successful, earning Nergaard a Spellemannprisen award for Musician of the Year. In the wake of this success, Be Still My Heart: The Essential (2005), a best-of collection also featuring some new material, was released, along with the aforementioned Lifetime compilation. Subsequent albums Darkness out of Blue (2007) and A Thousand True Stories (2009), both Top Five hits, feature an expanded band and arrangements by Vince Mendoza. ~ Jason Birchmeier https://itunes.apple.com/no/artist/silje-nergaard/id13493860#fullText

Be Still My Heart - The Essential

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