KETIL BJØRNSTAD

JAZZ / SCANDINAVIA / NORWAY / READING POETRY 2003

KETIL BJØRNSTAD: SEAFARER'S SONG EMARCY, 0602498657775(CD) (P)(C)2004 UNIVERSAL MUSIC AS, NORWAY RECORDED: JUNE 21, 2003 RELEASED: 2004, NORWAY

CREDITS (productions) :

Music by Ketil Bjørnstad Music arrangements by the group

Words by Homer/E.V.Rieu, Ketil Bjørnstad after Rory Carroll and Giles Tremlett, Helen Hunt Jackson, William Shakespeare, Stein Mehren, Oscar Wilde, Emily Dickinson, Rudyard Kipling and Emily Jane Brontë

Produced by Sven Persson and Ketil Bjørnstad Live Sound Production: Sven Persson

Recorded live at Harstad Kulturhus, Norway, Saturday 21, June 2003, during the "Festspillene i Nord-Norge"-festival (www.festspillnn.no) Recording Engineer: Jan Erik Konshaug

Mix and mastering by Jan Erik Konshaug, Rainbow Studio, Oslo, Norway, August-November 2003

Cover Photo: Eva-Maria Riegler Cover Design: Deville Design Concert Photos: Jan Erik Konshaug

CREDITS (musicians) :

Ketil Bjørnstad	:	piano, keyboards
Kristin Asbjørnsen	:	vocals
Nils Petter Molvær	:	trumpet
Svante Henryson	:	cello
Eivind Aarset	:	guitar
Bjørn Kjellemyr	:	bass
Per Lindvall	:	drums

TRACKS (total time 79:51) :

1.	Seafarer's Song (2:30)
2.	He struggled of the surface (6:27)
3.	Dying to get to Europe (3:58)
4.	Orion (4:48)
5.	Tidal Waves (6:08)
6.	How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank (3:44)
7.	Navigator (5:18)
8.	Ung forelsket kvinne (5:41)
9.	The Beach (3:40)
10.	Her Voice (5:40)
11.	Dreaming of the north (5:41)
12.	I had been hungry, all the years (2:42)
13.	The exile's line (3:47)
14.	When police came they also hit me (4:13)
15.	Refugees at the rich man's gate (6:22)
16.	I many times thought peace had come (3:46)
17.	The night is darkening round me (5:53)

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