Artist.......: Silje Nergaard
Album........: Live In Koln
Label........: Universal Music
Genre........: Jazz
Catnr........: 0602498747674
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Sep-11-2006
str.date.....: Nov-18-2005
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.siljenergaard.com
track title time
01. live in koln 83:32
02. i don't want to see you cry 04:22
03. be still my heart 03:55
04. we should be happier by now (with al jarreau) 05:37
Runtime 97:26 min
Size 132,5 MB
Release Notes:
Silje Nergaard has, within the last six years,
established herself as one of the most original and
most interesting artists working within the
European jazz arena.
2002 saw Silje Nergaard tour and perform the world
over, to critical success as well as to public
acclaim. She has performed at all the major jazz
festivals, such as the North Sea Jazz Festival,
Montreal Jazz Festival, Stockholm Jazz Festival,
Perugia Jazz Festival, Vitoria Jazz Festival (where
she was voted Most Favoured Act by the audience at
the festival), and many, many more. She has toured
extensively in Europe and Asia, with her first
concert in Hong Kong selling out at the Hong Kong
Concert Hall (1,400 capacity) -- over 300 fans
waited in line to receive autographs after her
show. She also was invited to perform for an
exclusive one-week engagement at Ronnie Scott┤s in
the United Kingdom. Of the show, The Guardian
wrote: "She avoids falling back on the
straight-jazz singer's usual safe bets
(scat-singing, blues inflections or much reference
to standard songs), choosing instead to work over
relaxed funk or minimalist slow-burn settings for
ballads. She has a flexible and highly developed
technique, with instrument-like qualities in her
dynamic and tonal range." The Independent also
stated, "à If Nergaard continues to sing and write
like this, it shouldn't be long before she doesn't
have to explain the correct pronunciation of her
name."
2001 began to spin in a whirlwind of success. In
January, she appeared with the 60-piece NRK Radio
Orchestra for a special live concert including her
band, focusing on her own compositions and selected
standards. The event was filmed by a five-camera TV
crew for later international TV and radio
broadcast, and received unanimously positive
critical reviews. In April, she received the honour
of being the only European artist voted to
participate in the prestigious Verve Now Tour,
which brought her to Spain, England, Switzerland,
Belgium, The Netherlands, Sweden, Demark, Austria
and Norway. She has toured Germany extensively, and
performed at major jazz festivals such as The North
Sea Jazz Festival in Den Haag, the Stockholm Jazz
Festival, and numerous summer festivals in Germany,
among others. In July she opened the Kongsberg
International Jazz Festival as the featured
performer, to a sold-out performance and an
overwhelmingly appreciative audience. Shortly
afterwards, she performed with the guitarist Pat
Metheny at a sold-out performance at the Molde
International Jazz Festival, which also received
the highest critical praise. She has performed for
television in Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands, and
Denmark, and has been broadcasted throughout the
continent.
Her highly successful previous album, "Port of
Call" (Universal Music), returned Silje Nergaard to
recording after a four-year absence, during which
she spent time reconsidering the direction of her
career. Released in March of 2000, the album
presented Silje firmly as a jazz vocalist,
reflecting her passion for the genre, which has
always been the underlying basis of her music.
Although initially meant as an homage to the art of
the jazz standard that has so much influenced her,
the album met with immediate success, receiving the
highest critical praise from critics throughout the
world. In the first week of its release, the album
entered the Norwegian sales charts at no. 7, and
remained in the top-twenty for 12 weeks. Such
success is notably unusual for a jazz album, and
especially for an artist who had not been active
for the preceding four years. A single from the
album, "Shame on You", landed the no. 1 spot for
the summer's most requested radio play on the
state-run Norwegian Broadcast Radio (NRK). Clearly,
Silje Nergaard was not only back with unprecedented
force, but also established herself as one of the
few jazz performers to achieve critical as well as
commercial success.
Silje's public recognition in the jazz world came
at the age of 16, when she joined an impromptu jam
session on stage at Norway's Molde International
Jazz Festival with a band comprising of Ex-Jaco
Pastorius┤s musicians (the touring band after his
death) and unknowingly launched an international
career. National jazz journalists applauded this
discovery, lauding the new vocal star appearing on
jazz's horizon. Almost overnight, Silje became one
of the most respected jazz vocalists in Norway,
characterised by her uniquely heartfelt and
passionate style of singing. Her unusual and
original vocal improvisations thrilled audiences
and critics alike. The world-renowned guitarist Pat
Metheny also was similarly impressed, enough so to
recommend her to noted producer Richard Niles, who
promptly signed her to his label Lifetime Records
(EMI).
Her debut single "Tell Me Where You're Going"
(1990) achieved a top-40 placing in the British
charts, spending 15 weeks in the UK Top 100. The
album featured a duet with Pat Metheny on guitar. A
top-10 album in Scandinavia, "Tell Me Where You're
Going" reached Number 1 on the Japanese J-Wave
charts, where it was released by Toshiba-EMI. On
many Japanese stations Silje became the artist to
receive the most airplay for that year. She was
also the first western artist to ever perform at
the magnificent Heian Shrine in Kyoto (the Japanese
equivalent of the Vatican). A brand of wine was
also named after her in Japan!
Her second album, "Silje", featured a duet with
Morten Harket, the lead singer of the band A-HA,
and one of Silje┤s most ardent supporters. Her
third album, "Cow On the Highway", was a daring and
fascinating combination of jazz with a blend of
country and western.
After three albums sung in English, Silje returned
to Norway to release two self-produced albums in
her native tongue. "Brevet" ("The Letter", 1995),
continued the engaging mix of country and pop, with
the edge of jazz, featuring lyrics by some of
Norway┤s most respected writers. "Hjemmefra" ("From
Home", 1996) featured Silje with an 8-piece male
vocal group consisting of members from the vocal
group Gli Scapoli, the internationally acclaimed
male choir. This recording revealed a new,
innovative direction for Silje in its use of
unusual vocal harmonies and in the experimentation
of vocal textures. These albums were released on
the Norwegian Kirkelig Kulturverksted label.
In December of 1999, Silje Nergaard received an
Honorable Mention Award for her pop composition "I
Don't Want to See You Cry" from the prestigious USA
Songwriter Competition. Her song "On and On" was
used in the Korean film "Interview", and the Hong
Kong artist Cass Phang recorded the song "Brevet"
("The Letter") for an album and single released in
Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and China.
In 2002, the recording group STATE recorded two of
her songs for their album STATE (Universal Music).
One song from this album, "It┤s A Crying Shame",
was used for that year┤s theme song in the
nationally televised charity "Folkeaksjonen 2002".
Silje continues to provide high-quality commercial
songs for other artists to record.
Silje Nergaard is currently touring throughout the
fall of 2003 and into 2004.
The track 1, Live in Koln, features 13 songs as
follow; Borrowing Moon, How Am I Supposed To See
The Stars,If You Love Somebody Set Them Free, This
Is Not America, Keep On Backing Losers, The Waltz,
Tell Me Where You┤re Going, Dance Me Love, Be Still
My Heart,Take A Long Long Walk, Lullaby To Erle,
Japanese Blue and En Og En.
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