Eivør Pálsdóttirs masterpiece so far

I have all the CDs of Eivør Pálsdóttir and they already able to experience live. All of their CDs are very good to excellent, but they are also available to everyone? Their spectrum ranges from church music through jazz and trip-hop to ethnic.
This album "Eivør" I call her masterpiece, because it can be easily conveyed to a large audience in the world. You can hear it in passing, and not because you come komplizert ago - well, almost nothing ... :-)
Indeed, it is at the same time of a high artistic standards, and Eivørs soprano voice is extremely versatile. Time tender, almost girlish-fragile to be then immediately powerful piling as the surf at their native shores. In short, you can do it, and it's real.
The genre of this production? Somewhere between folk and country, but in any case Eivør.
The Language? Eivør is known of the Faroe Islands, where Faroese is spoken, so she sings mostly in Faroese. This is not self-evident, since the language is understood, hardly anyone in the world (actually almost none at all, other than the 60,000-80,000 native speakers and interested Scandinavians).
Of the eleven pieces are three in Faroese, two in Icelandic, two Swedish and four in English. All non-English texts have been translated in the booklet in English.
- Faroese is clear, that is their own language. "Trøllabundin" ("Witch") is a magical piece. They accompanied themselves on a Sami tambourine, which she purchased from a shaman. "Min Modir" (my mother) is a tribute to her mother (and perhaps to their homeland). "Mar leingist" (I long) is finally a classic tender love song of Nicolina á Kamiranum (from her I know, unfortunately, only the name, and that the song has to be older). To Eivørs lecture Bill Bourne joined on English, and that makes it perfect. A pair of singing in two languages ​​on the mutual desire to comply again in the arms. The Faroese is suddenly very close. More on Bill Bourne below.
- Icelandic is at Eivør no wonder, because there they lived and worked the last few years, there has a lot of fans, and not least the album is produced in Iceland. The pieces are called "Við gengum Tvoe" (we go for two) and "Veit þú kemur" (I know, you come) are both love songs. May be mentioned at this point that the whole production will be accompanied by the same Icelandic musicians who have recorded the album "Krakan". Thus, the slightly jazzy sound bleed through.
- And Swedish. They explained it once at a concert, that there are certain songs that would sound simple Swedish best: "sing Swedish, is like eating chocolate." In fact, "Om jag Vagar" (if I dare) and "Ma solen altid skina" (may the sun always shine) incredibly catchy songs - both written by Eivør.
The former is based on the topic here on the obvious - popular in the Faroe Islands -Kinderlied 'A Ferd til dreymalands "(on the way to dreamland) of Terji Rasmussen, who was in the 1990s one of the first Faroese rock and pop musicians. But now it's a love song - maybe Eivørs best song ever. Incredibly melodic with an interesting rhythm. Unfortunately I'm not a musician, otherwise I could describe him.
The second piece of Swedish is another tribute to her mother. Eivør leaves out all their powerful voices violence here. I find this piece of fantastic. It is perhaps one of the "heavier" on this record, but it gives the whole album a lasting depth.
- In addition, the four English songs. "Only a friend of mine" will delight those that can not do much with the above languages, and just want to have something nice just what you mean now. It's a song about a good friend who is just around the corner, just a friend of the poor, a friend of justice, of peace, of animals, of the moon and the stars, love and hope ... One wonders to unwilkürlich: ... is about Jesus meant? This question may each answer for themselves. :-)
Written has this catchy song of the Canadian Folk Bard Bill Bourne, who produced the whole record and play along on the album on the guitar. An ingenious combination of the two. One wonders, who has had both luckier. Probably it evens itself out.
Bill has contributed another song "Where are the Angels", also from this, I'll call it, "hippie charm", which is of course also appeal to older semester. Ever notice that the entire production is orchestrated very cautious. The musicians are limited to essential elements, while singing Eivør. "If I Needed You" by Townes Van Zandt is another piece from the Country genre, and with "Sweet Sweet Song" Eivør contributed a composition that might be programmatic for the whole album: "I wanted to write you a sweet sweet song ... "
... This is your lucky several times!