Wind and Sun Sinikka Langeland

• 1 Row My Ocean 07:04
• 2 Wind and Sun 02:53
• 3 It Walks and Walks 06:48
• 4 When the Heart Is A Moon 05:14
• 5 Hands That Held 04:04
• 6 A Child Who Exists 04:48
• 7 A Window Tells 06:38
• 8 The Love 04:48
• 9 Wind Song 03:15
• 10 A Child Who Exists (Var.) 04:33
• 11 Wind and Sun (Var.) 06:48
• 12 You Hear My Heart Come 08:46
• Total Runtime 01:05:39

Info for Wind and Sun

“Being in a room with Sinikka Langeland is like being charmed into a northern forest under a night sky,” wrote Fiona Talkington in Songlines. “Her presence and her voice are magical, but when she plays her kantele you can almost feel nature itself quivering with joy.” (Fiona Talkington, Songlines)

The expressive arc of Sinikka’s music extends from the archaic to the experimental. Rooted in folk forms but wide-open in its perspectives it demands – and on Wind and Sun gets – particularly resourceful interpreters. Langeland’s new group is an optimum assembly of Norwegian musicians, each of them an ECM bandleader in his own right, all of them contributing ideas to the ongoing musical conversation – and, as Sinikka says, “taking things further in their incredible improvised solos.” For her song texts this time, Sinikka turns to the writings of poet and novelist Jon Fosse, one of Norway’s most important contemporary authors. Fosse has described the process of writing as “an act of listening” and wrestles with questions of faith in his work in a way that resonates with Sinikka’s fascination with “natural mysticism”. Wind and Sun, Sinikka Langeland’s seventh ECM album, was recorded at Oslo’s Rainbow Studio in September 2022 and mixed at Munich’s Bavaria Tonstudio in March 2023.

Sinikka Langeland, vocals, kantele, Jew's harp
Mathias Eick, trumpet
Trygve Seim, tenor and soprano saxophone
Mats Eilertsen, double bass
Thomas Stronen, drums

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