Rebekka Bakken

Nordic folk-jazz chanteuse Rebekka Bakken was probably the most effective exponent of a fresh generation of Scandinavian jazz singers that also included Silje Nergaard, Sidsel Endresen, and Solveig Slettahjell. Given birth to in Oslo in 1970, Bakken analyzed violin and piano as a kid, and in 1995 relocated to NEW YORK to pursue a specialist music profession. There she combined with Austrian-born guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel, and collectively they toured the neighborhood nightclub circuit like a duo. With time Bakken also befriended German pianist Julia Hülsmann, with whom she documented the 2003 recording Scattering Poems, a assortment of jazz shows inspired from the poems of e.e. cummings. Upon completing the task Bakken came back to European countries, settling in Vienna and putting your signature on a solo cope with the Universum label. Her debut LP, The Artwork of How exactly to Fall, accompanied by year’s end, and in 2005 she resurfaced with her industrial breakthrough, IS THE FACT THAT You? I Maintain My Cool adopted a year later on.