570 - Sidsel ENDRESEN Living Rooms 22 mai 2002

1. Part I - 2:18
2. Part II - 2:22
3. Part III - 3:43
4. Part IV - 13:42
5. Part V - 4:46
6. Part VI - 4:00
7. Part VII - 7:36

…like confessional folk for 21st-century cybergeeks.
Boston Phoenix

Influenced as much by ambient music, contemporary electronica, indigenous folk melodies, and classical minimalism as by traditional jazz improvisation, these Nordic artists are bringing a frosty, restrained sensibility that registers with their geographic and cultural climate. Call it birth of the cool, part two.
Boston Phoenix (Michael Endelman)

I think the ‘jazz approach’ to music is very inspiring. The personal interpretation of material, the trying to expand whatever material it is that you are working with. Also I have always worked with jazz musicians – more or less only jazz musicians all along! – but always those who belong to a very broad aspect of jazz. That’s not the classical jazz form.
Sidsel Endresen

I think it is harder to be woman in this field of music - there are a lot more female performers in the classical field for instance. It is a fairly male dominated arena – the rock – and the jazz-scenes! So I don’t think you score particularly high on being a woman – it takes a lot of strength to define yourself, to make the guys accept that you make the decisions. But as far as recognition goes, you have to be very strong to get that recognition as a woman.
Sidsel Endresen

My music uses mostly minor chords – I think, I like the darker moods in music! I find them very beautiful, so I get a lot of joy out of that. I am not depressed or anything. Those moods appeal to me and that’s where I feel I can sort of develop musically.
Sidsel Endresen

Poetry to me is maybe the clearest and most distilled form of expression in art that I know of. I read poetry – and I write it, because it also is a clarifying kind of process. When I work with poetry and music, one does not rank over the other. They are supposed to talk together somehow, whether there are very complex, complicated vocal structures or very simple.
Sidsel Endresen

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