Release Date: 04 June 2021
Label: Origin Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 805558281327
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 04 June 2021
Label: Origin Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 805558281327
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
Norwegian vocalist/composer Grete Skarpeid's "Beyond Other Stories" is contemporary word painting at its finest, with rhythmic contours beautifully enhanced by a quartet of master musicians, led by Cuban pianist Aruán Ortiz. Skarpeid draws us into the interior landscape of life with an eerily beautiful sense of freedom in her voice, mixing melancholy and joy, vulnerability and splendor. Ortiz's beautifully crafted arrangements of variety and sensuousness, are captured in every caressed phrase by Skarpeid. The music shines from the ethereal magnificence of "Singing Again," which sets to
music a poem by the noted Norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge, through the feelings of spiritual loss evoked in "Adam and Eve," to the existential weightlessness of "Flying High." The unlikely musical partnership of Grete and Aruán began by happenstance when Ortiz passed through Grete's remote hometown while touring Norway with Don Byron. Grete shared some of her original songs with Ortiz, who instantly fell in love with her music and encouraged her to write more, later collaborating in New York on Skarpeid's first album, "My Songs" in 2016.
"What comes out when Norway and Cuba team up musically: earthy bass, filigree rhythms, melancholy, charm, humor - and an almost unbelievable lightness." - Badische-Zeitung (Germany)
"Skarpeid fills us with so much joy as she reveals herself to be an artist of the first order..." - Raul Da Gama Rose
Artists:
Grete Skarpeid - Vocals
Aruán Ortiz - Piano
Rob Waring - Vibraphone
Cameron Brown - Bass
Gerald Cleaver - Drums
Tracklisting
Xose Miguelez
Joachim Mencel, Steve Cardenas, Scott Colley & Rudy Royston
Thomas Marriott, Orrin Evans, Luques Curtis & Mark Whitfield Jr
Ted Moore Trio
Jared Hall
Meridian Odyssey
Ben Patterson, Shawn Purcell, Chris Ziemba, Paul Henry, Todd Harrison
Brent Jensen
Carsten Dahl Golden Ratio Trio
Jim Hart Cloudmakers Trio & Leo Genovese
Perfect Stranger
The Bad Plus
Paul Brady
Thad Jones Centennial
Mike Chillingworth
Art Themen