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artist : Hanne Hukkelberg
album : Featherbrain
year : 2012
genre : Indie
label : Propeller Records
cat# : PRR51
source : CDDA
encoder : LAME 3.98.4 -V0
quality : 223kbps/44,1kHz/Joint-Stereo
size : 66,8 MB
tracklist
01. Featherbrain 04:36
02. Noah 04:31
03. I Sing You 03:05
04. The Bigger Me 02:48
05. My Devils 04:02
06. Too Good to Be Good 07:52
07. Sms 01:14
08. The Time and I and What We Make 04:30
09. You Gonna 03:47
10. Erik 04:18
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Featherbrain is a risky album. Both dissonant and
lyrical, it is music for headphones and notebooks.
Its intimate, eccentric sounds demand your
intimacy and your eccentricity, but the effort is
rewarded: a personal and honest sonic world opens
up, in fact, so sincere Hukkelberg had to toughen
up to record it. Listen carefully.
Hukkelberg's music has always been about personal
sound. This has given her great artistic freedom
to move effortlessly between genres, and her three
previous albums are defined by utterly distinct
soundscapes: debut Little Things (2005) was
eccentric and adventurous, second offering
Rykestrasse 68 (2007) warm and lyrical, and third
album Blood From A Stone (2009) explored a huge,
romantic indie rock canvas. The otherworldly take
on pop, jazz and art rock has given Hukkelberg a
wide audience internationally, and in 2010 she
toured with Wilco. This was also the year she
travelled to New York to write new material. The
result is Featherbrain, combining the noisy
guitars and heavy rhythms of Blood From A Stone
with a more stripped-down, lyrical lightness. She
explains: "This album feels like the missing link,
the record that concludes my first years as a solo
artist...Featherbrain is its own beast, but it
still has aspects of the other three in it."
Several songs on Featherbrain sound like old home
recordings. Every song has its own place, as if
you're wandering from room to room in Hukkelberg's
world - her kitchen and church in The Time And I
And What We Make, a New York apartment in The
Bigger Me. I Sing You, with a gothic harpsichord,
multiple string instruments and mystical vocal,
evokes a dark, old wooden house she has lived in.
Accompanying her are a small family of musicians -
producer/multi-instrumentalist Kσre Vestrheim
(Motorspycho, Jaga Jazzist, Marit Larsen, Shining,
Katzenjammer, Superfamily), guitarist Ivar
Grydeland (Huntsville, Dans Les Arbres), vocalist
Mai Elise Solberg (Ontz, VOM) - as well as Sigurd
Hukkelberg, Hanne's father, playing the church
organ in her home town of Kongsberg.
The feeling of home recordings doesn't make the
album cosy - but it makes the music sound
intimate, moving and imperfect - guitar notes
distort, a piano moves in and out of tune. It
sounds lived, not just dreamed. And this gives
life to a new and more personal Hukkelberg - her
voice is equally imperfect. She wobbles,
improvises and confesses. First single My Devils
opens with a few simple piano chords, before her
voice breaks it all down with a snarl: "HAH!" The
track continues, shifting between a free-flowing,
staggering verse and a melodic feast of a chorus,
before accelerating into a flamboyant, razor-sharp
vocal arrangement.
"they tear apart and reconstruct
my personal, inner pictures"
sings Hukkelberg, her voice layered in intensely
beautiful dissonant takes, bringing to mind an
experimental, aggressive chorus of Elizabeth
Fraser.
Closing track Erik, sung in Norwegian, is a duet
with Erik Vister, an 88-year old classically
trained singer. The lyrics, sung to a detuned
piano, deal with asceticism - owning little,
appreciating the little things, being humble. This
is an important theme on the album - being a good
person, the human quality. Vister's ancient,
beautiful voice against Hukkelberg's brings out
the most beautiful quality there is: the
imperfect, honest existence. This is
Featherbrain's biggest achievement - creating a
kind of antique pop music, at the same time
brittle and soft, powerful and fragile, but most
of all overwhelmingly human.
http://www.hannehukkelberg.com/
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