Sidsel Endresen

Sidsel Endresen ( born June 19, 1952 in Trondheim ) is a Norwegian jazz singer. Her singing style can be described as onomatopoeic and experimental.

Life

Sidsel Endresen 1978, enrolled at the University of Oslo in the subjects of English and anthropology after she spent as a child and young adults four years in England. It is based Sidsel Endresen the band and makes in the local Oslo music scene a name. In 1980 she was invited by the singer Radka Toneff to a workshop of Norwegian Jazz Federation, where he met guitarist Jon Eberson know. Between 1980 and 1987, it enters into the role as a singer and lyricist in the formation Jon Eberson Group, whose music moves between the poles of jazz-rock, rhythm & blues and soul. The winning two Spellemannprisen makes them nationally known in the jazz scene in Norway.

Armed with a record deal with the well-known German jazz label ECM by Manfred Eicher begins in 1989, the solo career of Sidsel Endresen. Here they released the albums How I Write (1990) and Exile (1994). Both times it is accompanied by the musicians Django Bates, Jon Christensen and the young trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer. In the second album still Bugge Wesseltoft and David Darling added as an accompanist. Sidsel Endresen, whose music to allow more room for improvisation and experimentation, developed during this time their own onomatopoeic style that makes them away is known about the Norwegian borders. With keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft the Norwegian Sidsel Endresen duo released three more world -appreciated recordings - Night Song (1994 ), Duplex Ride ( 1998) and Out Here. In There ( 2002). Sidsel Endresen parallel, occurs between 1995 and 1999 with the free improvising vocal trio ESE - together with Elin Rosseland and Eldbjørg Raknes - on. In 1999, she composed together with Rolf Wallin, the one-person opera According to life, which is being performed in Ultima (1999), Bergen ( 2000), Stockholm (2001) and the UK ( 2001). Between 2000 and 2002 she toured with the solo project Undertow by Europe. In addition, contract work for various European festivals, theater and dance projects as well as the soundtrack for Expedition (2000) by Runi Langum. Together with the Norwegian pianist Christian Wallumrød published Sidsel Endresen 2004 CD Merriwinkle and will be touring, partially amplified by the electronic sound wizard and producer Helge Sten on the Moers Festival 2007, she interacts with the electro-acoustic duo Humcrush ( Ståle Storløkken - keyb, electr, Thomas Strønen - dr, electr ) on; In October 2007, it plays in the formation Mollsche The law of Udo Moll, Sebastian Gramss, and Matthias Muche.

Awards

Discography

Solo

With the Jon Eberson Group

Bugge Wesseltoft with

With ESE

With Christian Wallumrød

  • 2004 - Merriwinkle

With Stian Westerhus

  • 2012 - Didymoi Dreams
David Darling (musician) Electronic keyboard Film score Integrated Authority File
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