Rebekka Bakken live at enjoy jazz, Mannheim 2011

Rebekka Bakken: voc
Börge Petersen-Överleir: g
Rune Arnesen: dr
Lars Danielsson: b
Mathias Leber: p
recorded live at Alte Feuerwache, Mannheim, November 12, 2011

1. Same Kind
2. Never Been To Paris
3. September
4. Powder Room Collapse
5. Forever Young/ Jed Vet En Hvile
6. Any Pretty Girl
7. Hard To Be A Loser
8. After All
9. Girl Next Door
10. No Easy Way
11. Der Schnee draussen schmilzt
12. Driving

If it was up to Rebekka Bakken, people would not talk about her music, but rather just listen to it. The singer-songwriter with the deeply touching three-octave range is an “Anti Drama Queen” – a restless soul and at rest within herself at the same time. Constantly pondering and appeasing, she does not like to have people make a fuss about herself or her art. “I need the music more than it needs me”, she says accordingly. “I like to put everything to life in my music. It’s no big deal.” Hearing is feeling is living, when it comes to this emotional artist. But maybe it is also because her songs are so poetic and meaningful and her melodies speak so clearly and beautifully, that the curiosity to find out what is behind them is so enormous. With her fifth album the Norwegian singer, who was living in New York and Vienna for a long time and now makes her home on a horse-farm in Sweden, continues her “American series”. Produced in close collaboration with Malcolm Burn in Kingston, New York, the twelve self-confident and straightforward songs of “September” present themselves as one of the most beautiful, Country-influenced song-albums of our time. Brilliantly sung, sensually and lusciously played, these songs about love, life, lust and misery – the oldest topics in the world – always seem up to date. Their sound already is so unique and original, that even the three cover-versions of songs by Bruce Springsteen, Jane Siberry, and Alphaville, fit perfectly with Bakken’s own new compositions. This music touches, on many levels. “Communication”, as Rebakka Bakken says, “is so much more than words.”