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Het valt onder Pop, maar de stijl is Indie / Ballad. Shoegaze zou ook nog passen.

Een bijzonder album van de Noorse. Je moet er wel even voor gaan zitten, maar na de tweede keer luisteren zakte het in. Zeker de moeite waard.

In Elevation, Susanna’s engagement with Baudelaire’s work blossoms into a collaborative enterprise, combining tape, spoken word and song. The result is a unique musical conversation spanning centuries and disciplines; a “time travelling” project, as Susanna puts it, that moves between creative dimensions. 

Susanna brings collaborators back into the process, nurturing connections made over a series of Baudelaire & Piano live shows presented in 2020 and 2021. Composer-improviser Delphine Dora offers teasing renditions of the original French texts, layering spoken recitation and otherworldly singing in a set of atmospheric vignettes. And tape recorder soundscapes from Stina Stjern—familiar from Susanna’s Hieronymous Bosch project Garden of Earthly Delights (2019)—frame the album with hiss, hum and soft fingers of melody, like mist settling on a landscape.

These contributions deepen the album’s mystery and its evocative power. The result is an engrossing interleaving of sounds and registers; and, as Susanna describes it, “an intuitive and collective ceremony of the ethereal and mystical in life.”

Tracks:
1. Alchemy of Suffering (Susanna / Baudelaire)
2. Ciel Brouillé (Delphine Dora / Baudelaire)
3. Rose-Pale Dawn (Stina Stjern)
4. L’aube Spirituelle (Delphine Dora /Baudelaire)
5. Elevation (Susanna / Baudelaire)
6. Alchimie De La Douleur (Delphine Dora / Baudelaire)
7. Le Possédé (Delphine Dora / Baudelaire)
8. Light Up Your Eyes (Stina Stjern)
9. Invitation to the Voyage (Susanna / Baudelaire)
10. Le Vin Des Amants (Delphine Dora / Baudelaire)
11. In Shared Ecstasy (Stina Stjern)
12. Destruction (Susanna / Baudelaire)

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqZ9zeZvxHU