Eldbjørg Raknes

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Eldbjørg Raknes (moers festival 2007)

Eldbjørg Raknes (born February 9, 1970 in Midsund ) is a Norwegian jazz singer and composer living in Trondheim . She is less an interpreter of well-known jazz standards than an adventurous singer who understands her voice as an instrument and sets poems to music in her own compositions. With the aim of musical education, she also writes many pieces for children.

Live and act

After attending a theater school from 1990 to 1994, Eldbjørg Raknes studied jazz singing and composition at the Music Conservatory in Trondheim. Already in 1991 she gave her musical debut in a duo with the Norwegian pianist Christian Wallumrød at the International Jazz Festival in Molde . In the same year she was co-founder of the a cappella group Kvitretten . In 1992 Raknes founded the jazz trio Nutrio together with Wallumrød and trumpeter Arve Henriksen . Her music already consisted mainly of her own compositions, often to texts by the Swede Karin Boye or the American Dorothy Parker . In the following years, in addition to her studies, she performed on various tours with Kvitretten and Nutrio as well as locally in her own musical programs for children. In 1995 she was awarded the prize for the best children's song in Norway.

In 1996 Eldbjørg Raknes joined forces with Sidsel Endresen and Elin Rosseland to form the vocal trio ESE . After the dissolution of Nutrio she founded in 1997 her own quartet Tingeling . Her comrades-in-arms were the guitarist and bassist Nils Olav Johansen, the drummer Per Odvar Johansen and the pianist and keyboardist Maria Kannegaard. On their first CD TINGeLING they set texts by Rudyard Kipling , Ernest Hemingway , Emily Dickens and Ronald D. Laing to music .

In 1999 Raknes published on the CD Det bor en gammel baker ... a collection of children's verses set to music by Inger Hagerup , with which she had already appeared at events for children in the past. The CD is a great success in Norway and was nominated for a Spellemann prize , the Norwegian Grammy. Eldbjørg Raknes has been a mother herself since 2000; on April 7th the daughter Iris was born.

At the jazz festival in Trondheim, Raknes appeared for the first time in 2002 with a full solo program. Just with your voice and electronic aids such as B. a looper she created improvised vocal music with and without words. Since 2004 she has played in a similar form in a duo with the Norwegian bassist Anders Jormin , known from the Bobo Stenson Trio.

In 2004 and 2005 two more CDs of her were released. On Många röster talar she combined previously unpublished compositions to texts by Karin Boye; Små sanger mest i det blå is another recording of music for children that she wrote to texts by Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen . In 2011 she was awarded the Buddyprisen , Norway's most important jazz prize, and the Radka Toneff Minnepris . A year later, the Norwegian Gammleng Prize was added in the Jazz category.

Discography

solo

  • 1999 - Det bor en gammel baker ...
  • 2004 - Många roaster talar
  • 2005 - Små singer mest i det blå
  • 2013 - Open

With display cases

  • 1996 - Voices
  • 1999 - Everything turns
  • 2002 - Kloden er en snurrebass som snurrer oss

With ESE

  • 1999 - Gack!

With TINGeLING

  • 1997 - TINGeLING
  • 2002 - So much depends upon a red wheel barrow

As a guest musician

  • 1992 - En flik av - Bodega Band
  • 1996 - Letters - Håvard Lund
  • 1997 - Travel ID - Kjetil Bjørnstad
  • 1997 - Vintersang - Odd Børretzen / Lars Martin Myhre
  • 1998 - Hysj - Lars Martin Myhre
  • 2000 - Hush - Lars Martin Myhre

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eldbjørg fikk Radkas minnepris. In: rbnett.no. July 19, 2011, accessed July 21, 2017 (Norwegian).
personal data
SURNAME Raknes, Eldbjørg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Midsund