Torun Eriksen

While considered a Norwegian jazz vocalist and songwriter, Torun Eriksen’s tone of voice transcends styles. A veteran documenting artist, she actually is equally in the home in folk, pop, and tempo & blues configurations, and often mixes them seamlessly in her primary compositions. She actually is also an adept interpretive vocalist whether she’s executing pop criteria or the vanguard traditional compositions of others. Eriksen started singing at age six in an area gospel choir in Lunde. As a teenager, she and her family members moved to the greater metropolitan Skein, and she went to a music senior high school. She continuing to sing in a variety of choirs, and in her research encountered jazz, traditional, and modern music. She was also inspired to create and sing her very own music. At 19, she became a highlighted soloist. Her affects consist of everyone from Aretha Franklin, Randy Crawford, and Stevie Question to Joni Mitchell, Pat Metheny, and Rickie Lee Jones. After shifting to Oslo in 1997, she signed up for the Norwegian Institute for Stage and Studio room. By this time around, she had currently fulfilled bassist Kjetil Dalland. They produced a music group playing Eriksen’s music. Her early compositions included “Glittercard”; Bugge Wesseltoft found a demo edition of the melody, which she acquired documented in Sweden, and eventually agreed upon her to his Jazzland Recordings label, where she’s continued to be. Her debut record was entitled for these melody, and released internationally in Apr 2004, earning many vital accolades. She toured the spot, learning the artwork of live show with a split music group that included not merely Dalland but David Wallumrød and saxophonist/flutist Frøydis Grorud. Prayers and Observation was released in 2006. In 2007 she toured Japan as a particular guest using the Jazzchoir Freiburg, which highlighted orchestral agreements of her music. This year 2010 she released the acoustic Passing, made by drummer Anders Engen and including guitarist Kjetil Steensnæs. Though Eriksen composed and recorded solely in British, she and Grorud released a Xmas documenting in Norwegian, Sanger om Glede og Fred, including her translation of Mitchell’s “River.” The countless touring and membership work over time resulted in a rest for Eriksen, though she added to albums by Synne Sande and Grorud. She re-emerged in 2013 with Trips, a assortment of covers made by Tobias Frøberg (Ane Brun). The established ranged over the pop range and included music by Prince, Green Floyd, Randy Newman, D’Angelo, Jimmy Webb, and Tom Waits. The record not merely garnered interest but provided her the innovative impetus had a need to start writing once again. In 2015, she guested on Wesseltoft’s Bugge & Close friends and toured with German jazz guitarist Susan Weinert, and in addition joined Weinert over the record Fjord. Eriksen and bassist Dalland co-produced 2016’s wildly different Grand Light Silk, which highlighted all original materials. On Grand Light Silk, she and Dalland had been joined up with by Wallumrod on keyboards, brand-new drummer Andreas Bye, and electrical guitarist André Berg. The same calendar year she and pianist Julia Hülsmann toured European countries, performing both music and poetry.