Torun Eriksen - Grand White Silk

Size: 100,9 MB
Time: 39:17
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. The Opening (3:52)
02. More (3:12)
03. Take My Time (3:40)
04. Downhill (4:18)
05. Compromise (3:27)
06. Right Here (4:10)
07. Winter Today (4:24)
08. Darkness (2:54)
09. I´ve Been Thinking (4:09)
10. Grand White Silk (5:06)

Torun Eriksen presents Grand White Silk. Few songwriters can perform their material with such unobtrusive self-awareness as Torun Eriksen: she possesses many strengths as a lyricist, as a composer, as a singer. On Grand White Silk, she has pulled off the rare feat of playing to all of these enviable strengths with equal vitality and conviction. When you have set standards as high as Torun already has, all that remains to be done is aim higher: her aim has proven true, with a set of songs and performances that crown her work to date. Lyrically, the album draws on the place of the everyday amid the universal - those "little things we begin not to notice, that are important to us, yet we are blind to them through familiarity." Love; shame; self-acceptance; connections physical, emotional and electronic; contradictory feelings common to the modern world; the ability to simply breathe and accept a passing moment for what it is without question; the brief and frail existence of any individual within a universe without a visible, tangible beginning or end; all of this informs Grand White Silk, and it is delivered with images rich, poignant, sometimes seeming quotidian, at other times fragile and ethereal. Whether amid a lush arrangement with vast dynamic sweep, or against a sparse solo piano accompaniment, or against a juggernaut beat that seems close to unstoppable, Torun's sensitivity to her lyrical content is revealed time and time again by measured performances that are emotionally charged without melodrama, philosophical without cold intellectualism, meditative without haziness. Her distinctive tone, perfect phrasing and sensual delivery has few peers. Grand White Silk sets a new high-water mark for an already impressive career. Features: David Wallumrød on keys, André Berg on guitar, Kjetil Dalland on bass and Andreas Bye on drums.

Grand White Silk

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Torun Eriksen - Prayers & Observations

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:10
Size: 104,2 MB
Art: Front

(4:05)  1. Joy
(4:26)  2. My Boys
(4:33)  3. Way to Go
(3:50)  4. Song of Sadness
(5:24)  5. Featuring Youth
(5:12)  6. The Sky From Where I Live
(4:39)  7. Stories
(4:44)  8. (This Is) So Real
(4:46)  9. Tired
(3:27) 10. Saviour

This voice is a dream come true! Who has something left for Scandinavian singers like Silje Nergaard, Rebekka Bakken, Viktoria Tolstoy or Solveig Slettahjell, will probably also find in Torun Eriksen favor and she soon not want to miss. Even the young Norwegian, who completed her musical education in Skien in Telemark province, and today lives in Oslo, enchanted her audience with that enigmatic melancholy, as they just encountered only in northern Europe.

When divine longplayer Prayers & Observations all (style) terminals drawers. Eriksen can not nail down to a direction changes depending on the mood and the song content genres. She has behaved resilient radio ("My Boys"), Winds increasing R & B à la Joss Stone ("Way To Go") and sumptuous mini-dramas with string accompaniment ("This Is Real") in the program, it takes the chamber music-intimate "The Sky From Where I Live "sent bonds at Art Song of the classical period, resulting in" Stories "the modal jazz of Miles Davis blessed contemporary into the 21st century and comes in" Song Of Sadness "in the Country Dress therefore (pedal steel guitar included). This touching song, a duet with Paal Flaata (Midnight Choir) singing is, incidentally, dedicated to the saxophonist Sigurd Kohn, which can killed in the tsunami in Thailand.

Torun Eriksen agrees to all the rather subdued until restrained. Where their Sangeskolleginnen of the southern hemisphere put on spirited performances usually full of fire, preferably the "Northern Lights" the supercooled eroticism of the polar region which is certainly no less sexy. All music lovers who Eriksens tingly-mysterious Vokaltimbre on Prayers & Observations appreciate, can Glitter Card equal dazubestellen yet unheard. For the debut album of Norwegian, which was inundated by the critics guild rightly superlatives is qualitatively equal and the fans melancholy northern sounds inspire determined exactly. Promised! ~ Harald Kepler  http://www.amazon.de/Prayers-Observations-Torun-Eriksen/dp/B000E9913O

Prayers & Observations

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Torun Eriksen - Visits

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:13
Size: 92.1 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:47] 1. Beat Angels
[3:45] 2. Wichita Lineman
[4:02] 3. Downtown Train
[4:50] 4. Fix You
[2:55] 5. Sign 'o' The Times
[2:43] 6. You Can Close Your Eyes
[5:21] 7. Feels Like Home
[3:56] 8. Spanish Joint
[4:50] 9. Wish You Were Here
[4:00] 10. American Tune

TORUN ERIKSEN: Voice; DAVID WALLUMRØD: Keyboards, Grand Piano; AUDUN ERLIEN: El bass; OLA HULTGREN: Drums.

Torun’s musical adolescence was spent in various gospel choirs, where she was given the chance to extend her potential as a singer and soloist from early childhood on. With a background in soul and gospel, her first introduction to jazz was as a music student in high school in her hometown Skien. Her encounter with The Real Book and jazz standards introduced a new world. Teacher and pianist Roger Jeffs spotted Torun’s talent, and encouraged her to write English lyrics to one of his melodies. The foundation for a career in song writing had now been laid.

When she in 1998 moved to Oslo and enrolled into the Norwegian Institute for Stage and Studio (NISS), she was already well under way with her composing. She made an impression as a soul and pop singer in various cover bands on several of the city’s stages, but her own material was still unknown to her surroundings. At this point in time she had begun working with bass player Kjetil Dalland, who is still today considered to be one of her closest musical partners, and along with a couple of others they formed a band and recorded a demo with three of Torun’s songs. By a coincidence the demo was overheard by Bugge Wesseltoft, who was very excited about the song Glittercard and offered Torun to release a record on his label Jazzland Recordings. She then gathered the musicians who have since contributed to feature the acoustic image of her music: David Wallumrød (piano), Kjetil Dalland (bass), Torstein Lofthus (percussion) and Frøydis Grorud (flute/saxophone). Along with Bugge Wesseltoft as their producer they made the album Glittercard, which was released internationally in the spring of 2004. In 2006 the sequel Prayers and Observations was released - this too produced by Wesseltoft – and in April of 2010 her third record Passage was released. This record was produced by Anders Engen, and with the addition of guitarist Kjetil Steensnæs, the acoustic image became more string oriented. Torun’s three solo albums, all of them released on Jazzland Recordings, have received good reviews in the press, and opened the door to foreign countries and an international audience. The Germans in particular have embraced her music, and she has toured Germany regularly since her debut.

Torun’s songs have also been arranged for chamber orchestras, big bands and choirs. The collaboration with German Jazzchor Freiburg started in 2007, and they have since toured with their project in Japan, Korea, Germany and France. Together they have also recorded a version of In Person (Glittercard 2003), which is to be found on the choir’s album A Cappella from 2010.

Visits

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