Eldbjørg Raknes
Eldbjørg Raknes ( born February 9, 1970 in Midsund ) is a living in Trondheim Norwegian jazz singer and composer. It is less a performer known jazz standards as an experimental singer who understands their voice as an instrument and music poems in his own compositions. With the goal of music education she also writes many pieces for children.
Biography
Eldbjørg Raknes studied after attending a theater school from 1990 to 1994 at the Music Conservatory in Trondheim Jazz singing and composition. As early as 1991 it was in a duo with the Norwegian pianist Christian Wallumrød at the International Jazz Festival in Molde her musical debut. That same year, she was co-founder of the a cappella lineup Kvitretten. In 1992, together with Raknes Wallumrød and the trumpeter Arve Henriksen Jazz Trio Nutrio. Their music was already mostly original compositions, often to texts of Swede Karin Boye or the American Dorothy Parker. In the following years she appeared alongside their studies on at various tours with Kvitretten and Nutrio as well as locally at own musical programs for children. In 1995 she was awarded in Norway with the award for best children's song.
1996 Eldbjørg Raknes Sidsel Endresen and ended with Elin Rosseland to the vocal trio ESE together. After the dissolution of Nutrio she founded her own quartet in 1997 Tingeling. Your colleagues here were the guitarist and bassist Nils Olav Johansen, drummer Per Odvar Johansen and the pianist and keyboardist Maria Kannegaard. On her first CD Tingeling they set texts by Rudyard Kipling, Ernest Hemingway, Emily Dickens and Ronald D. Laing.
Published in 1999 Raknes on the CD Det bor en gammel baker ... a collection of verses set to music by Inger Hagerup children with whom they had occurred in the past at events for children. The CD is a big hit in Norway and was nominated for a Spellemannprisen, the Norwegian Grammy. Since 2000 Eldbjørg Raknes herself is a mother; On 7 April, the daughter Iris was born.
On the Jazz Festival in Trondheim Raknes occurred in 2002 for the first time with a complete solo program. Alone with her voice and electronic aids such as a looper, she created an improvised vocal music with and without words. In a similar way, she has appeared since 2004 in various performances also in a duo with Norwegian bassist Anders Jormin, Bobo Stenson known from the trio.
In 2004 and 2005 two more CDs came of it on the market. Manganese roaster talar they united unpublished compositions to texts by Karin Boye; Sma sanger mest i det blå is another recording with music for children, she has written to texts by Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen.