Torun Eriksen

Torun Eriksen – Fastlandet (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

With Fastlandet, Torun Eriksen breaks new ground and does most things for the first time: The lyrics are Norwegian; the format trio; the soundscape electro-acoustic; and the music improvised and through-composed side by side, layer upon layer and simultaneously.

Long-time musical partner and bassist Kjetil Dalland is an alternating anchor and free diver with his distinctive, exploratory playing. Italian Alessandra Bossa on grand piano and live electronics expands the palette sonically and in time and space – one moment lingering, the next swirling virtuosity. Guest Atle Nymo expands to a quartet and adds a fourth dimension to the album with warm and shimmering clarinets. Eriksen is responsible for voice, lyrics, music and production.

Fastlandet is stories about loss. But also about taking care of what you have while you have it: life, each other, the moment. More important than anything, and yet so incredibly difficult for us. Fastlandet is an attempt to create a place to be here and now.

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Torun Eriksen – Visits (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 17, 2023 · Comments off

From the albums Glittercard to Passage, Torun Eriksen has honed her craft and identity to become one of the most instantly recognizable voices in Norwegian music today…

Her music is always immediate, personal and yet subtle and universal. With Visits, Torun opens a different door into her musical world, presenting us with a selection of 10 songs by various artists, each with its own personal resonance for her, and given a unique interpretation, sometimes defamiliarizing well-known songs, and at others, making the unfamiliar seem as though it has been present all along.

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Torun Eriksen & Kjetil Dalland – Luxury and Waste (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 14, 2023 · Comments off

Torun Eriksen’s ‘Luxury and Waste’, her sixth solo album, explores familiar territory in an utterly unfamiliar way. Where her previous album ‘Grand White Silk’ flirted with arrangements of grandeur, she turns now in the opposite direction and gives us new songs in an uncompromising, stripped back sound, shifting between cool, drifting moods and driving pulsating rhythms. Bassist Kjetil Dalland is her sole companion here, and his subtle yet distinctive style is the perfect complement to Torun’s voice, as she invites us into ‘Luxury and Waste’, her most intimate album yet. You will find Jazz, pop and soul, singer/songwriter and blues, all combined in Eriksen’s unique and surprising blend. “I love how music can burst with references, and still have a distinct sound of its own. And I wanted this album to be like that. I have been searching for the core of my songs. We cut everything to the bone, were left with the raw and unpolished and tried to bring this very special light only to be found in the sketches, onto our final versions of the songs.”

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