Klangbiotoper Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer

• 1Kvæven 05:49
• 2Tvo duvor03:41
• 3Klovnefiskens desorientering02:32
• 4Sju vindar05:57
• 5Valbekkskogen02:41
• 6Dagpåfugløyelarvens betraktninger01:52
• 7Sut03:25
• 8Å den svalande vind02:38
• 9Gåsenebbhvalens lament03:40
• 10Ekko 03:13
• 11Det var en gang06:27
• Total Runtime41:55

Info for Klangbiotoper

Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer's second album Klangbiotoper has turned into something few would have expected from the exceptional Norwegian vocalist: A political statement: "When I set out to record this album, I saw the atrocities that we were committing towards our planet and it got me thinking", Meyer recounts, "I reflected on my lack of will to do something about the situation and about our collective failure to take action. In some ways, working on the album was a way for me to enter into a dialogue with the places, plants and creatures of nature."

This drive for change does not express itself through anger or ideologies, however. Rather, the album is about a return to humanity, about rebuilding our relationship with nature and opening ourselves up to the beauty that surrounds us. The softly flowing compositions oscillate between folk tunes from Meyer's childhood and almost sculptural instrumental parts, in which her band - made up of tuba, saxophone and percussion - is casting the shapes and outlines of the worlds she is singing about on the retina of the mind's eye.

Klangbiotoper is both an audiophile headphone environment and an expression of direct, undiluted emotions, a tribute both to her own roots and the things that unite as all.

Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer, vocals
Lars Andreas Haug, tuba
Grzech Piotrowski, saxophones
Terje Isungset, percussion
Guest:
Zakarias Nikolai Meyer Øverli, vocals (on track 9)

Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer
is a distinctive voice artist, multi-vocalist, and composer who explores her instrument to create music through vocal timbres with different ranges of expression and color. Her music free of genres is filtered through several genres and stylistic expressions that range from classical vocal tradition, selected ethnic traditions including throat singing, Norwegian folk music, multiphonics, and pure noise music. Her voice range is from 32 Hz to 2800 Hz, almost 7 octaves. This expression makes her popular for concerts, stage productions, film music, sound installations, and recordings all over the world.

With her multi-expressive vocal expression, she creates sound worlds from the realistic to the unrealistic, the expected and the unexpected, and the sound becomes the narrator.

She collaborates worldwide with instrumentalists and singers from various genres and cultures. She is the vocal soloist in the World Orchestra/Warsaw under the direction of Grzech Piotrowski and other main collaborators are jazz pianist Helge Lien and organist/composer Nils Henrik Asheim. ...

Nordic Voices
was formed in 1996 and consists of singers educated at the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Academy of Opera. Right from the start, it was a goal to explore the possibilities of the human voice and get composers to write more demanding and exciting music for vocal ensembles. The singers are classically trained, they are familiar with various extended vocal techniques, and always challenge themselves to expand their possibilities. Their close work with a wide range of composers has led to more than 70 world premieres. Nordic Voices masters a wide range of musical styles, everything from folk music and Renaissance music to new works commissioned by composers from all over the world.

In concert, Nordic Voices often presents program concepts that revolve around themes, such as historical figures or poetry, which bring the music to life in several unexpected ways. Artistic creativity, communication, versatility and technical precision are the main ingredients in the perfect recipe for a vocal ensemble. These are precisely the elements that make up Nordic Voices, a six-voice a cappella group that has made waves not only in Norway and Europe, but in places as far away as South Africa, Japan, Bolivia, as well as frequent tours to the USA and Canada.

Nordic Voices are: Tone Elisabeth Braaten (soprano), Ingrid Hanken (soprano), Ebba Rydh (mezzo-soprano), Per Kristian Amundrød (tenor), Frank Havrøy (baritone/tenor), and Rolf Magne Asser (bass).

This album contains no booklet.