Ane Brun 'The Treehouse Song' Video

• 23rd Jan 2009

Ane has established herself as one of the finest contemporary indie-folk voices in Scandanavia over five album releases through her own label DetErMine Records, based in Stockholm, Sweden. The daughter of a (still gigging) jazz singer, she was brought up on jazz before discovering the classics (Dylan, Baez, Mitchell etc). She didn’t record any music until she went to University, but she did make her debut album while finishing her studies. By her third album, duets with Ron Sexsmith and Teitur along the way, she was touring around the world, with demand as far afield as Australia and Japan, collecting music awards (including a Norwegian Grammy) and platinum selling records.

‘Changing Of The Seasons’ marks her second album release in the United States, the follow up to her last 2006 studio album ‘A Temporary Dive’ which was met with glowing reviews. Grouped with the freak-folk artists Devandra Bernhart, Cocorosie and Joanna Newsom, Time Magazine describe her as “a mix of Bjork’s unpredictability and Joni Mitchell’s directness”, Interview called the album “a work of haunting minimalism”, People Magazine as “melancholy splendour” and Pitchfork as “the best of subtle, spacious songs”. The new album is expected to provide her mainstream breakthrough Stateside.

From Molde in Norway, famous for it’s mountain panoramas, it would follow that Ane’s music is most noted for it’s stark, spacial arrangements, but ’Changing Of The Seasons’ provides a free-flowing eclectic collection of songs, with it’s share of country, hymnal and folk inflections.