Rebekka Karijord

Depuis le nord de la Norvège, Rebekka Karijord livre un nouvel album intense et flamboyant, qui laisse ses chansons pop au piano s'envoler vers des arrangements spacieux, où les grandes orgues et le rock feutré se disputent la vedette. Après de longues tournées aux côtés de Ane Brun, dans le groupe (piano/choeurs/harpe) et souvent en première partie en solo, Rebekka Karijord sort en 2010 un premier album en dehors des frontières scandinave. Excellent accueil critique, concerts enthousiasmants, Rebekka montre sur scène un magnétisme rare. Son album est joué dans le monde entier sans qu'elle n'ait à se déplacer, puisqu'il constitue la bande son du célèbre spectacle de cirque contemporain Cirküs Cirkor.

Quite often, important and vivid art is derived from trauma of one kind or another, and the end product is the result of processing exactly what, why and how things happened. The clue here is in the album title, as Norwegian songwriter, soundtrack composer, playwright and short-story writer Rebekka Karijord documents the premature birth (at six months) of her first child. Veering between blissfully upbeat (The Orbit), seriously poppy (Your Name), purposefully experimental (I Will Follow You into the Wild is incomprehensible to all but Karijord, surely), delicately folksy (Six Careful Hands) and almost religious (Mausoleum), Mother Tongue showcases an artist whose creative expressiveness is in keeping with her instinctive role as a sensible communicator.

From Far Enough Away Everything Sounds Like The Ocean Is the debut release from Stockholm's Simon Stålhamre, the gentleman behind Small Feet, The album will be released on the Control Freak Kitten label in Europe and will be released on Barsuk Records in the USA on August 14th.