Susanne Sundfør - "Ten Love Songs"

New one is sounding gorgeous today. Shift brings to mind Emiliana Torrini’s sparse “Fisherman’s Woman’ album, which is a gem

that is actually a perfect analogy for why the new one was disappointing because "Telepathy" is so far and away the best thing Emiliana Torrini has ever done

<3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-uRyOu4YV4

just came here post that stanm. i was lucky enough to be at that concert, the whole thing was filmed, so maybe there's more to come? lovely venue, great acoustics, and she was absolutely amazing from start to finish.

Jesus Christ. She's ridiculous.

otm

that performance of 'Undercover' is breathtaking

New (?) radio doc on SS and Oslo:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bkr5nz

Not sure if it's available outside UK.

Amazingly, it's available in the US

it's even available in Europe! Is this the soft brexit then?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHKcvDUtxp8

(= new song, performed on a Norwegian awards show at the end of October)

waiting for her own arrangement on that to be honest, feels a little generic movie sound track to me. :-/

Same show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1kdI0IygAE

that performance of Undercover is particularly brilliant isn't it, the things she does with her voice 2.50 onwards - not just a technical skill of voice mastery but the way she really sells the sense of loneliness and longing at the song's core

Wow, it's stunning!

she's on Mercury Rev's new album (a tribute to Bobbie Gentry’s 1968 The Delta Sweete) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXbGxxIsa5k

“Reincarnation” live:

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

Music For People In Trouble - Live from The Barbican out next month.

Out now! 10-minute "Undercover" comes with a bass solo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st0i1we9P7s

Kind of wish she had done one of these for Ten Love Songs instead, the arrangements on MFPIT live don't depart that much from the album versions.

Lovely song. Part of the chorus sounded a lot like another tune I couldn't put my finger on at first. I finally realized that it employs a similar melody to Killing Me Softly's "And so I came to see him, to listen for a while…"

Yeah this feels a bit redundant - good vocal performance but I can't see me ever reaching for it over the actual album

I'm glad to have these distended versions, and to have a document of her astonishing live vocals.

i think the vocals in StanM's Youtube link upthread are better than anything on this album

New song!

https://open.spotify.com/album/4Pz0crD94099fDlhAc2eA3?si=sruksQ1mQP2NRYpwDevIZw

i like this more than a lot of the last album!

I like it
Thought it was a cover of 'Na na na' by The Knife for a second or two

5-track EP Self Portrait, the soundtrack to the Norwegian documentary Selvportrett, is up on Spotify. It includes “When The Lord”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oWFCkcdmZI

getting a little stoned and doing gift shopping in manhattan & brooklyn while listening to ten love songs is one of my all time favorite holiday traditions. A+ perfect record.

The greatest album of all time by a Norwegian artist

My favourite albums by here are still the two she made with Lars Horntvedt from Jaga Jazzist producing in the early 10s, "The Brother" and "The Silicone Veil". Some absolutely beautiful arrangements on those two.

"The Brothel" anyway.

"mountaineers" from music for people in trouble is used to great effect in the norwegian film thelma, currently available on hulu (and unconditionally loved by me)

the second half of "mountaineers" is like dying, in a good way

that's a better description than I could ever have come up with BN, it's a monumental piece of music

I was in Iceland in 2018 and I spent a lot of time in coaches, driving the flatlands of the coast roads between the sea and the mountains, listening over and over to People in Trouble, particularly Mountaineers. Jesus, what a song.

Bit random but I wanted to bump this thread after Susanne's appearance in the top 77 tracks thread, and there's no live performance of that song that I can find, but this one of a debut album track from 2012 was uploaded on youtube last year and I hadn't seen it before

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

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

Music for People in Trouble is a pretty great album

I've just realised I mainly listen to albums when I'm driving and I've barely driven anywhere this past year ;_;
(SS's albums were on rotation fairly frequently)

wasn't feeling Music for People in Trouble when it first came out

https://i.imgur.com/U3eEduw.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5sGROCRiDs

!

chills at hearing her voice again.

only noticed halfway it was a Röyksopp track, which explains the lack of melodic development.

but that voice… I can’t stop listening.

Sounds like she's covering a Pet Shop Boys track

(i.e. I love it)

what a voice - sigh

yeah

that was awesome

Another one with Röyksopp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s_6LjSmZqo

in total, that's 5 songs on the three Röyksopp albums this year
https://www.facebook.com/susannesundfor/videos/r%C3%B6yksopp-stay-awhile-ft-susanne-sundf%C3%B8r/479643497342027/

+ she got married over the Summer
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=627253205427198

I wonder what the song was for the first dance