Ane Brun will next week release her career retrospective Songs 2003-2013 and is marking the occasion with a re-recording of ‘This Voice’, which originally appeared on her 2005 record A Temporary Dive. The once gentle song has been reimagined as a pulsing, rhythmical tune with a full band sound, and is accompanied by a...
Roll up! Roll up! For London’s Scala is decked out like a tawdry tart, complete with multi-coloured bunting, lanterns, balloons and a ‘Gabberdashery’ of clothes, cake and curios. There’s even a town mayor and vicar to preside over a raffle, although the prizes appear to be limited to satsumas. This isn’t a dramatic change...
Ane Brun’s fourth studio album It All Starts With One was released earlier this month to widespread acclaim and praise; a gloriously emotive and compelling affair that ensures her talents as a musician will be further known upon these shores. On her recent tour of the UK I had the chance to meet Ane,...
It’s a rainy Tuesday night in Manchester, and Oxford Road is quieter than usual. Perhaps this is because everyone is in the Deaf Institute, falling a little bit in love with Ane Brun. Weaving through the captivated crowd en route to a suitable vantage point, her spectacular voice, soft but sharp like a flute,...
Despite putting out five studio albums, working with the likes of Peter Gabriel and Ron Sexsmith and receiving two Norwegian Grammys, Ane Brun (real name Ane Brunvoll) has flown under the UK radar for some time. This might all be about to change with It All Starts With One, a multi-layered, evocative master-work of...
A Snowy Owl on Brian’s roost recently complained that she only listened to music made by boys. And as much as Brian – and the rest of us at FFS for that matter – love our bearded folkies, there’s a-whole-nother gender out there that ought not be left out, despite its lack of chin...
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