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Posted: November 02 2016 at 10:21
Kingsnake wrote:
- Memorial: a great progressive epic with a wonderful middle part. I can really dream away on this one.
From the intimate concert in your opening post: before she starts singing it, she says its a brand new song she finished earlier that same morning so she had bring a text sheet.
-even more intimate. Her songs and her voice shines in any kind of arrangement or context. A true artist:
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Posted: November 02 2016 at 22:24
I know very little from her, but she does intrigue me. I know that Oblivion track with M83, and it's... well, something tells me it could be better, but I when I hear it I can't help but love it... it's got such a melancolic character to it. And then I roughly heard he 10 love songs album on Youtube... there were many nice moments, but I didn't really feel the urge to go and get it. However, I did love the song "Accelerate"; perhaps the most obvious choice for a progger should be "Memorial", but I sort of lost patience with it, the vocal part was very beautiful, but the instrumental orchestral part sort of bored me (still beautiful, though). I guess at some point I will want to check out her previous albums, she does seem to me to be one of the more interesting artists these days, but I still would have to know more from her.
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Posted: November 03 2016 at 02:29
Saperlipopette! wrote:
Kingsnake wrote:
- Memorial: a great progressive epic with a wonderful middle part. I can really dream away on this one.
From the intimate concert in your opening post: before she starts singing it, she says its a brand new song she finished earlier that same morning so she had bring a text sheet.
-even more intimate. Her songs and her voice shines in any kind of arrangement or context. A true artist:
Thanks for the video. Yes she as a Renaissance-woman. She can make anything beautiful.
Have you seen/heard her rendition of Master of War?
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Posted: November 03 2016 at 03:16
^Yep. It was between Masters of War or this one, and went with the "home recording" - that also had the fewest viewers.
- btw: while pretty enough I'm not too keen on that latest single release posted earlier. Hope that its more of a one-off "breather" in between more ambitious stuff.
Edited by Saperlipopette! - November 03 2016 at 03:23
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Posted: November 03 2016 at 06:37
Her lyrics are so deep and philosphical, and also biting and condemning.
Some lyrics take a while to sink in. But a lyric like like 'Please Go Slowly' is apparently is about abuse. She sings to the abuser to go slow so she can fully experience the feeling. It gives me a chill down my spine.
Also The Brothel is about prostetution and all its horros, and she ends the song with:
'There are echoes in the garden is anybody listening There are echoes lost in the garden is anybody listening They whisper: The ones who are only living are the ones who are only dying '
Her lyrics are pure poetry. I can't honestly think of any modern artist who's on this level of lyric-writing.
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Posted: December 04 2016 at 01:51
Being a strong proponent for her inclusion and having written her bio for PA, I'm naturally on board with this topic.
I love it when it's just her on the Fender Rhodes. I wish she recorded another album like Take One with stripped-out versions of songs from the last three albums.
What about A Night at Salle Pleyel, no opinions on that?
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Posted: December 05 2016 at 01:32
Kotro wrote:
I love it when it's just her on the Fender Rhodes. I wish she recorded another album like Take One with stripped-out versions of songs from the last three albums.
I love it to. But also when she plays grand piano or any other acoustic piano.
Do you know / have you heard Kontorkonsert med Susanne Sundfør?
What about A Night at Salle Pleyel, no opinions on that?
I love that album. It's more or less and ambient album. I love synths very much, so that album is really up my creek. I have a digital version at home.
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Posted: June 07 2017 at 06:25
I almost fainted when I saw she had a thread here, OMG!!!!!!
I'm a huge fan of her's, my favorite "pop" singer. Magnificent avantgarde songwriting, all kinds of subversion's of lyrical themes and just complete unpredictability.
I'm still amazed there's a thread here, I'm so happy! :)))
Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV.
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Kingsnake wrote:
Susanne who? Now I feel old.