Silje Nergaard Nightwatch (2003) Sacd

"A Thousand True Stories" is Silje Nergaard's twelfth album and her first on Sony Music. The Norwegian singer with the girlish voice recorded her new CD complete with the famous Metropole Orchestra conducted by Vince Mendoza.

Zum 30-jährigen Jubiläum ihrer Karriere veröffentlicht die mehrfach ausgezeichnete norwegische Jazzsängerin Silje Nergaard ein einzigartiges Doppelalbum mit neuen Songs sowie noch nie gehörten Akustikversionen ihrer größten Hits!

Silje Nergaard is without question Norway’s all-time best selling Jazz artist worldwide with 15 albums released over a career that spans 20 years. From the first moment she entered the music scene at the age of 16, Silje established herself as one of Norway’s strongest songwriters.

Silje Nergaard is without question Norway’s all-time best selling Jazz artist worldwide with 15 albums released over a career that spans 20 years. From the first moment she entered the music scene at the age of 16, Silje established herself as one of Norway’s strongest songwriters.

Silje Nergaard is without question Norway’s all-time best selling Jazz artist worldwide with 15 albums released over a career that spans 20 years. From the first moment she entered the music scene at the age of 16, Silje established herself as one of Norway’s strongest songwriters.

Zum 30-jährigen Jubiläum ihrer Karriere veröffentlicht die mehrfach ausgezeichnete norwegische Jazzsängerin Silje Nergaard ein einzigartiges Doppelalbum mit neuen Songs sowie noch nie gehörten Akustikversionen ihrer größten Hits!
Album 1: Japanese Blue: präsentiert Siljes größte Hits in einer neuen, intimen Umgebung: Nur von einem Klavier begleitet, kann man ihre einzigartige Stimme genießen wie nie zuvor. Dieser Teil des Doppelalbums, der auch einige neue Songs und zwei exklusive Coversongs enthält, heißt „Japanese Blue“.Album 2: Hamar Railway Station: enthält acht neu geschriebene Songs für Band (Klavier, Gitarre, Bass, Schlagzeug) und Gesang. Dieser Teil heißt „Hamar Railway Station“ und handelt von der Geschichte der jungen Silje, welche die Welt erkunden wollte.

Silje Nergaard is a Norwegian singer and songwriter of International renown. She is without question Norway’s best selling Jazz artist of all-time with a total 13 albums released over a career that spans 20 years. From the first moment she entered the music scene at the age of 16, Silje established herself as one of Norway’s strongest songwriters. Her first hit single "Tell Me Where You´re Going" (with Pat Metheny ) was an International chart success, reaching the # 1 position in Japan (where they actually named a wine after her!) and placing in the Top 10 throughout Scandinavia and the UK.

Where her more famous contemporaries achieve greater mass appeal by dumbing down or aiming at a younger audience (Katie Melua, Norah Jones),or worse, adding a generic 4-beat pop backing (Dido), Silje Nergaard writes and sings mature music for discerning adults, with astounding results. The key to her appeal, perhaps, is in the combination of mature composition and pure, innocent voice. There are other artists who soundlike her, there are others that write like her, but nobody who combines the two so successfully.
But that's not to say that the music sounds old fashioned. Employing avariety of contemporary jazz styles and with a minimal musical accompaniment, Silje manages to achieve the rare feat of an entire album that never once falls into middle of the road blandness yet sounds fresh and modern and new on every listening.
The highlights on this album are "The Waltz", which effortlessly evokes such gorgeous romantic images that it almost physically hurts; the playful duet "Dream A Little Dream"; and "Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered",which delightfully combines the sexy with the coy. In contrast, a couple of the songs are very low-key; in particular, "Don't Explain", the final song on the album, seemingly trails off into nothingness, which cannot help but leave the listener yearning for more.
This is music for demand the real thing, but more than that, it's music for people who believe in love at first sight. Silje's sensuous voice is so heart-stoppingly beautiful throughout that by the end of the album, you'll believe in love at first note, too.

Every Song on the Album "For You A Thousand Times" is a musical narrative, in which the Norwegian jazz vocalist and songwriter Silje Nergaard past encounters and personal experiences with rousing melodies in a subtly arranged sound, panoramic power currently.