CECILIE ANNA
- Songwriter and artist from Stord, Norway.
Released her debut album ‘Going North’ in 2016 together with her band formally known as FAMILIEFORETAKET (The Family Concern).
CECILIE ANNA’s first solo album, ‘I'm Here’ (2016) received glowing reviews in Norwegian national press.
CECILIE ANNA's new single and tribute to the lovely Will Oldham "Bonnie" is out! Available wherever you love to listen to your music. Cover photo by Paal Audestad. Celebration this evening at Bømlo Ultrafestival, a runners festival where people love to run very, very far. Cecilie Anna will not be running, but she will be smiling throughout her concert besides her lovely co-pilots Vidar Vedå and Ingjerd Kannelønning Kolstad.
CECILIE ANNA has received wonderful words for her album.
“CECILIE ANNA is a remarkably good composer, lyricist and vocalist. The album is low-key and quiet, but clear and sharp in its execution. She wrote the instrumental track Den Grone Dagen at the age of ten, and 'Baby Doll' at 17. An incredible talent from early age.”
-Øyvind Vågnes, Dag og Tid
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“Her music is like a light, guiding us through the darkness and warming our hearts.“
-Petter Lønningen, BT
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“A rare gem, the album's eleven tracks are well-written, with a sense of deeply reflective poetry. Musically it's both melancholy, dark, fragile and beautiful.”
-Per Henrik Arnesen, Gaffa.no
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"I'm Here" is a record dedicated to CECILIE ANNA father, Hjalmar. He played the trumpet and simply loved music. It rains a lot where CECILIE ANNA lives, so she wanted to include rain as well as horns on the record. She chooses to refer to the album as a slow tempo record. In same way that an author doesn’t necessarily place the chapters she believes might be most popular at the beginning of a book, she hasn’t tried to predict which songs might be most popular or become hits. Her wish is for people to relax for a small hour and listen to the record in peace and quiet.
The instrumental track "Den Grøne Dagen" was the first song CECILIE ANNA ever wrote, when she was ten years old. It has followed her throughout her life, and she’s so very happy it could be included on this record. She wrote "Baby Doll" when she was seventeen. The rest of the songs have been written over many years, and the last track on the album, «The Smallest Bird», was written in the autumn of 2016, as a tribute to Leonard Cohen after he passed away.
Contributing musicians are Rebecca Almås on alto horn, Åge Østrem on cornet and flugelhorn and Torstein Overweg on euphonium, with Vidar Vedå on backing vocals. The recording and mixing were managed by Gisle Østrem at Sir Sound Studios, Stord. Mastering took place at Abbey Road Studios, London.
Listen to I’m Here on Spotify or buy in top quality on Bandcamp
Photo by Trond Leirvik Onarheim
