Danish singer/songwriter Sinne Eeg has won just about every music award Scandinavia has to offer including the Ben Webster Prize - the first vocalist to do so. Further afield Eeg was also the recipient of France's prestigious Prix du Jazz. Earlier this year she was awarded the French Order of Arts and Letters. Previous recipients include such mega, and diverse, names as David Bowie and Meryl Streep.
Although Eeg and Christoffersen have collaborated on many of her twelve previous albums this is their first duo album together and it's a pippin - and we're not talking apples!
Eeg wrote words and music for three tracks, Christoffersen chipped in with four along with one each from Annie Lennox, Billy Strayhorn, the Gershwins, Leonard Bernstein and David Wheat/Bill Loughborough.
The voice is compelling and beguiling. It's the voice you hear in your nicest dream. The one that lingers on after you've awoken only to disappear as the day unfolds. However, you know there'll be other nights and other dreams and that, once again, that voice will rule the night.
If that voice should have Jacob Christoffersen on piano then you are in Shangri-La.
Well that's not quite true in fact it's not true at all as it was recorded at Shikiori, a concert hall in the Japanese countryside that inspired the album's title.
A beautiful recording that will be on my car stereo forever or until the powers that be decide I should be operating a white stick rather than a gear stick. Lance
Losing You; Hebi (Snake); Soba Flower; Lush Life; A Second Chance at Love; Cold; Maria; But Not For Me; Don't be so Blue; Seems Like Yesterday; Better Than Anything; Soba
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