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Recorded after six months spent living in Berlin (and named for a street address there), the second album by Norwegian songstress Hanne Hukkelberg may be moodier and more mature than her endearingly light-hearted debut, but it's nearly as sweet and, in its way, just as playfully inventive. The occasional electronic elements of Little Things are absent, and the "noise" quotient is relatively subdued, but there's still plenty of atmospheric clutter and clatter: clinking bottles and kitchenware; a bouncing ball; "tea-strainer guitar"; an excellently played typewriter on "The Northwind"; Obelix the cat purring on his own ode (which can't help but recall likeminded noise imps -- and Hanne's former Leaf labelmates -- Psapp); and the Rykestraße itself providing urban ambience on the languorous opener, "Berlin." This bevy of found-sound sources commingles seamlessly and invitingly with the array of "real" instruments -- piano, accordion, prominent double bass (both bowed and plucked), glockenspiel, bass clarinet, and so forth -- to create an impressionistic, Old World Continental vibe with echoes of cabaret jazz, sea shanties, and the fusty, haunted soundscapes of Tom Waits. The effect, though evocative, is kept understated, never overshadowing Hukkelberg's resonant voice, a magnificently versatile instrument that evokes the high lonesome clarity and playful warble of Jolie Holland or Regina Spektor as well as the intoxicating swoops of Billie Holiday, and contributes as much as anything to the richly imbued charm of this album. (Her voice itself creates some of its most memorably personable moments, including the layered speaking and self-harmonizing on the creaky, slightly spooky "Fourteen" and extemporized-sounding passages of wordless a cappella noodling on "Berlin.") Rykestraße 68 is occasionally reminiscent of those artists musically and compositionally as well, blending as it does strands of folk, pop, and jazz, but a closer point of reference would be Fiona Apple's work with Jon Brion, particularly the defiantly idiosyncratic art pop of Extraordinary Machine -- it's equally visionary and emotionally flush, though if anything more accessible. Hukkelberg demonstrates notable range in songwriting throughout -- from the peppy, swinging "A Cheater's Armoury" to the eerie suicide shanty "The Pirate" to the tense "Ticking Bomb," which cheekily incorporates the familiar C minor prelude from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier -- although her draining, emotionally wracked re-imagining of the Pixies' "Break My Body" may well be the album's greatest highlight.
© K. Ross Hoffman /TiVo
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Hanne Hukkelberg, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
2007 Nettwerk Productions 2007 Nettwerk Productions
Kåre Christoffer Vestrheim, Producer - Hanne Hukkelberg, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
2007 Nettwerk Productions 2007 Nettwerk Productions
Hanne Hukkelberg, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
2007 Nettwerk Productions 2007 Nettwerk Productions
Hanne Hukkelberg, MainArtist
2007 Nettwerk Productions 2007 Nettwerk Productions
Hanne Hukkelberg, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
2007 Nettwerk Productions 2007 Nettwerk Productions
Hanne Hukkelberg, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
2007 Nettwerk Productions 2007 Nettwerk Productions
Hanne Hukkelberg, MainArtist - Black Francis (Charles Thompson), ComposerLyricist
2007 Nettwerk Productions 2007 Nettwerk Productions
Hanne Hukkelberg, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
2007 Nettwerk Productions 2007 Nettwerk Productions
Hanne Hukkelberg, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
2007 Nettwerk Productions 2007 Nettwerk Productions
Hanne Hukkelberg, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
2007 Nettwerk Productions 2007 Nettwerk Productions
Presentación del Álbum
Recorded after six months spent living in Berlin (and named for a street address there), the second album by Norwegian songstress Hanne Hukkelberg may be moodier and more mature than her endearingly light-hearted debut, but it's nearly as sweet and, in its way, just as playfully inventive. The occasional electronic elements of Little Things are absent, and the "noise" quotient is relatively subdued, but there's still plenty of atmospheric clutter and clatter: clinking bottles and kitchenware; a bouncing ball; "tea-strainer guitar"; an excellently played typewriter on "The Northwind"; Obelix the cat purring on his own ode (which can't help but recall likeminded noise imps -- and Hanne's former Leaf labelmates -- Psapp); and the Rykestraße itself providing urban ambience on the languorous opener, "Berlin." This bevy of found-sound sources commingles seamlessly and invitingly with the array of "real" instruments -- piano, accordion, prominent double bass (both bowed and plucked), glockenspiel, bass clarinet, and so forth -- to create an impressionistic, Old World Continental vibe with echoes of cabaret jazz, sea shanties, and the fusty, haunted soundscapes of Tom Waits. The effect, though evocative, is kept understated, never overshadowing Hukkelberg's resonant voice, a magnificently versatile instrument that evokes the high lonesome clarity and playful warble of Jolie Holland or Regina Spektor as well as the intoxicating swoops of Billie Holiday, and contributes as much as anything to the richly imbued charm of this album. (Her voice itself creates some of its most memorably personable moments, including the layered speaking and self-harmonizing on the creaky, slightly spooky "Fourteen" and extemporized-sounding passages of wordless a cappella noodling on "Berlin.") Rykestraße 68 is occasionally reminiscent of those artists musically and compositionally as well, blending as it does strands of folk, pop, and jazz, but a closer point of reference would be Fiona Apple's work with Jon Brion, particularly the defiantly idiosyncratic art pop of Extraordinary Machine -- it's equally visionary and emotionally flush, though if anything more accessible. Hukkelberg demonstrates notable range in songwriting throughout -- from the peppy, swinging "A Cheater's Armoury" to the eerie suicide shanty "The Pirate" to the tense "Ticking Bomb," which cheekily incorporates the familiar C minor prelude from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier -- although her draining, emotionally wracked re-imagining of the Pixies' "Break My Body" may well be the album's greatest highlight.
© K. Ross Hoffman /TiVo
Acerca del álbum
- 1 disco(s) - 10 pista(s)
- Duración total: 00:44:16
- Artistas principales: Hanne Hukkelberg
- Compositor: Various Composers
- Sello: Nettwerk Music Group
- Género Pop/Rock Rock Alternativa & Indie
2007 Nettwerk Productions 2007 Nettwerk Productions
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