releases
01 The Forester I, II & III (Susanna)
02 Hangout (Susanna)
03 Oh, I Am Stuck (Susanna)
04 Intruder (Susanna)
05 Lonely Heart (Susanna)
Arrangements of The Forester I & II and Intruder made by Julian Skar
Hangout, Oh, I Am Stuck, The Forester III and Lonely Heart made by Jan Martin SmĆørdal
The Forester – Susanna and Ensemble neoN (VINYL / CD)
SusannaSonata SONATACD008/LP008 2013Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannprisen) winning album in Open Category. Vinyl edition is limited to 500, and is SOLD OUT per November 2016. The CD is still for sale.
Barely one year after the Rune Grammofon-release of critically acclaimed āWild Dogā, Susanna returns with a new album. Released on her own label SusannaSonata on CD, vinyl and download in September 2013.
Susanna is known for both her own songwriting, with songs such as āBelieverā and her huge range of highly personal interpretations of other peopleās songs. She is an intensely arresting performer; holding audiences captive with her hypnotizing vocal timbre and the powerful, all consuming sound of her band, her concerts are truly magical.
Active for more than a decade, through eight albums so far as Susanna and the Magical Orchestra/Susanna/Susanna WallumrĆød, the Oslo based artist has recently been taking great steps towards greater independence and autonomy, while increasing the range of her considerable talents as a songwriter, vocal interpreter and producer.
Combining the antique notes of the Baroque theorbo, woodwinds and strings, and Susannaās sparse piano, āThe Foresterā ā a co-production with the Norwegian Ensemble neoN ā features Susannaās strongest songwriting to date.
āThe Foresterā began to take shape when composers Julian Skar and Jan Martin SmĆørdal requested some material from her to arrange for the Norwegian contemporary music group Ensemble neoN. Picking from new tracks and several already released songs, the composers made new arrangements suited to the eight-piece group, and extended the title track into a fifteen-minute, three-part suite in which dark woods shroud a wanderer in a symbolic landscape of searching and loss. Being lost, or deliberately straying from the chosen path, are recurring themes on āThe Foresterā, whose subject matter ranges from disturbing natural environments to alien visitors, painted on an eerily exquisite canvas that recalls Mark Hollis, Tim Buckley, Kate Bush and Claude Debussy while remaining uniquely Susannaās soundworld.
Recorded entirely live in one single, emotionally intense day at Osloās legendary Rainbow Studio, produced by Deathprod and Susanna and engineered by Jan Erik Kongshaug.
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