Album of the Year Prize for Tord Gustavsen
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Topic: Album of the Year Prize for Tord Gustavsen
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Subject: Album of the Year Prize for Tord Gustavsen
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2016 at 1:45pm
Album of the Year Prize for Tord Gustavsen, Simin Tander and Jarle Vespestad
Tord Gustavsen, Simin Tander and Jarle Vespestad have won the German
Record Critics’ Album of the Year prize – Preis der Deutschen
Schallplattenkritik – for their album What was said.
From the jury’s statement: “When Norwegian musicians Tord Gustavsen and
Jarle Vespestad got together with Cologne-based singer Simin Tander,
dreamlike art songs were created, songs that are nestled between
so-called serious music, jazz, world music, and folk - and are, at the
same time, far from all of these. The slightly melancholic voice of
Simin, the restrained piano playing, synthesizer bass and discreet
electronics from Gustavsen, as well as the sparse percussion and drum
pulses from Vespestad, create an atmosphere beyond the usual genre
boundaries. (…) Tander sings in English and Pashto, translating European
and American texts into the mother tongue of her Afghan father, and
interpreting texts of the Persian Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Rumi: essential
human feelings are not limited to regions of origin or residency. Rich
in pauses and resonant tones, this music, mostly open and delicate, is
condensed and forceful at decisive points.”
The German Record Critics' Award ("Preis der deutschen
Schallplattenkritik") was established in 1980 to set the "most rigorous
standards for supreme achievement and quality" in the field of music
recording. The German Record Critics' Award Association consists of
music critics, writers, musicologists and editors in Germany, Austria
and Switzerland actively involved in the assessment of CDs and DVDs. Its
mission is to provide producers, composers, artists and music lovers
with an honest guide to new releases of real artistic significance.
Our congratulations to Tord, Simin and Jarle!
More info: http://www.schallplattenkritik.de" rel="nofollow - www.schallplattenkritik.de
from www.ecmrecords.com
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