Rebekka Bakken

Rebekka Bakken – Always On My Mind (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:30 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Masterworks – Sony Music

On her album “Always On My Mind”, which is set to be released by Sony Masterworks on April 28, 2023, Norwegian singer and songwriter Rebekka Bakken reinvents her favourite songs with the sound of atmospheric Scandinavian Pop and Jazz. Together with her band, she adopts classics such as “Yesterday” by Lennon/McCartney, “Here Comes The Flood” by Peter Gabriel or “Why” by Annie Lennox as well as tunes by a new generation of contemporary songwriters like “Break My Heart Again” by Finneas O`Connell. In an intimate band setting with some of Norway’s finest studio musicians, the multi-gold award-winning musician and producer taps into the mystical depths in these songs. Rebekka Bakken skilfully orchestrates the whale-like sounds of guitarist Eivind Aarset with the ethereal organ and synthesizer pads of Jørn Øien and Torjus Vierli and waves them into emotional piano chords, driving bass lines of Tor Egil Kreken and all-acoustic laid-back drum beats of Rune Arnesen. It is this multi-layered soundscape that sets the foundation for the breathtakingly soulful voice of Rebekka Bakken, who has been compared to Janis Joplin.
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Rebekka Bakken – Winter Nights (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:31 minutes | 504 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music – OKEH

Rebekka Bakken’s album Winter Nights will be released October 30th on OKeh/Sony Music and features her interpretations of Christmas songs and favorite holiday cover versions in her hauntingly tender and relaxed style.

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Rebekka Bakken – Things You Leave Behind (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:50 minutes | 782 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music – OKEH

Nordic folk-jazz chanteuse Rebekka Bakken was the most successful exponent of a new generation of Scandinavian jazz singers that also included Silje Nergaard, Sidsel Endresen, and Solveig Slettahjell. Born in Oslo in 1970, Bakken studied violin and piano as a child, and in 1995 relocated to New York City to pursue a professional music career. There she paired with Austrian-born guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel, and together they toured the local nightclub circuit as a duo. In time Bakken also befriended German pianist Julia Hülsmann, with whom she recorded the 2003 album Scattering Poems, a collection of jazz performances inspired by the poems of e.e. cummings. Upon completing the project Bakken returned to Europe, settling in Vienna and signing a solo deal with the Universum label. Her debut LP, The Art of How to Fall, followed by year’s end, and in 2005 she resurfaced with her commercial breakthrough, Is That You? I Keep My Cool followed a year later.

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