Solveig Slettahjell

Solveig Slettahjell – Come in from the Rain (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 25, 2023 · Comments off

The vibe right through this album is well-judged, the storytelling is compelling. There are timeless old tales like Buddy Johnson’s ‘Since I Fell For You’ or Irving Berlin’s ‘How Deep Is The Ocean’, stories to be rediscovered afresh like ‘I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City’ and more recent ones like ‘Johnsburg, Illinois’ by Tom Waits. And there are new ones like ‘So I Borrow Your Smile’, her own composition. These songs may come from folk or jazz or pop, yet Slettahjell and her highly accomplished musicians always make them individual, tasteful and authentic. And the subtle way she bends notes, always bringing them into perfectly true-pitched final focus is nothing short of miraculous. Every time.

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Solveig Slettahjell – Gullokk (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · March 20, 2023 · Comments off

Solveig Slettahjell has long had the idea of making a quartet album based on her selected “Nordic songbook” and has collected songs for this project over several years. As always, she delights in putting together material that doesn’t obviously belong together until it is brought together in her recognizable executive grip. In this eclectic collection we find Edvard Grieg’s “Ved Rondane”, Eva Dahlgren’s “Guldlock”, Alf Prøysen’s “Trassvisa hennes Tora”, songs by Allan Edwall, Orup and Anne Grethe Preus, interspersed with folk tunes and newly written material by Slettahjell himself and Andreas Ulvo .

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Solveig Slettahjell, Knut Reiersrud & In The Country – Trail Of Soul (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 26, 2016 · Comments off

Solveig Slettahjell was one such artist welcomed back into ACT label’s fold. The ACT label released her early albums, establishing her international reputation as one of Europe’s leading jazz vocalists. Here she was partnered up with In The Country, the piano trio involving her close friend Morton Qvenild, pianist, sonic explorer and also a member of Solveig Slettahjell‘s Slow Motion ensembles. The real surprise that evening, however, came from adding the blues guitarist Knut Reiersrud. He had been on Siggi Loch’s radar for quite some time, and on this occasion was having his first ever meeting with Slettahjell and her crew. It turned out to be an ideal combination. The evening was a celebration of everything that had made the Nordic sound so attractive and successful for many decades. On the one hand there was the elegiac, bluesy side, inspired by the spirit of indigenous folk music; on the other the electronic, the rhythmically daring and the experimental. (more…)