Sidsel Endresen
Country of origin:
Norway
Type of music generally:
Deep evocative ethereal and somewhat experimental, with touches of folk, jazz, and pop
Status:
Most recent release, One (2006)
See also:
Sidsel Endresen's Facebook pageWikipedia's entry on Sidsel Endresen
She also appears in a duo with keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft and the jazz vocal trio, Gack, as well as doing guest vocals on various jazz albums
Comparisons:
Something in the spareness of her performance reminds me of Agnes Buen Garnas, though her music is quite different
Covers/own material:
Own
General comments:
Sidsel Endresen is one of those artists who is extremely difficult to describe well. Her work is spare but has some electronic backing, some jazz elements, some folk elements, some non-mainstream-pop elements, and an experimental flavour but doesn't fall into the styles of music usually called experimental. She has a deep, haunting voice and sings music full of ripples of sound, connotation, and allusion. (Neile)
Recommended first album:
Undertow
Recordings:
See Wikipedia's discography for her work
Exile
Release info:
1994—ECM Records
Availability:
Wide
Ecto priority:
Highly recommended
Group members:
Sidsel Endresen—vocals
Guest artists:
David Darling—cello
Django Bates—piano, horn, tenor horn
Jon Christensen—drums, percussion
Bugge Wesseltoft—keyboards
Nils Petter Molvær—trumpet
Produced by:
Manfred Eicher
Comments:
Smoky, spare, jazz-informed, siberrian; with spacious hollows and crystalline percussion. Beautiful, soft and sad. [Anticipates Jane Siberry's Maria.] (lissener@wwa.com)I don't hear this as like Jane Siberry much at all. It resembles other ECM understated jazz vocal work I've heard more than the liveliness of Maria. I find this interesting and evocative, but ultimately less individual than and haunting than Undertow. (Neile)
Undertow
Release info:
2000—Jazzland—548 195-2
Availability:
Norway and online sources
Ecto priority:
Highly recommended
Group members:
Sidsel Endresen—vocals
Guest artists:
Patrick Shaw Iverson—flutes, loops
Roger Ludvigsen—guitars, bass, percussion
Audun Kleive—drums, percussion, loops
Bugge Wesseltoft—keyboards on 1 track, percussion on 1 track
Nils Petter Molvær—trumpet on 2 tracks
Produced by:
Sidsel Endresen
Comments:
Haunting yet catchy, "undertow" describes this album well. It's deceptively simple yet catchy and drags you into its mood. There are all kinds of hints of deeper levels and melancholy hauntings, all framed by Sidsel Endresen's aching vocals. (Neile)
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