Description
On her album "Always On My Mind", which will be released on April 28 by Sony Masterworks, the Norwegian singer and songwriter Rebekka Bakken transfers her favorite songs into her unmistakable sound cosmos between atmospheric Scandinavian pop and jazz. Together with her band she lets classics like "Yesterday" by Lennon/ McCartney, "Here Comes The Flood" by Peter Gabriel or "Why" by Annie Lennox resound in a completely new sound, as well as "Break My Heart Again" by Finneas O`Connell, who together with his sister Billie Eilish stands for a new generation of songwriters.
In an intimate band line-up with some of Norway's best session musicians, the multi-gold award-winning musician and producer unlocks mystical depths in the songs she chooses. Rebekka Bakken skillfully orchestrates guitarist Eivind Aarset's famous clouds of sound with the atmospheric organ and synthesizer pads of Jørn Øien and Torjus Vierli, transfigured around piano chords and the bass lines of Tor Egil Kreken and drum beats of Rune Arnesen. This multi-layered soundscape prepares the bed for the breathtakingly soulful voice of Rebekka Bakken, who is also compared by some to Janis Joplin because of her intensity.
“These songs have ‘always been on my mind’ and inspired my own songwriting. They are the ‘soundtrack of my life’ and some of them have stuck with me since my childhood. I have developed my own voice listening to some of these songs and it is just the right moment to re-interpret them my way” explains Rebekka Bakken.
"Always On My Mind" contains a total of 15 colorful titles by Elton John, Bob Dylan, Randy Newman or Nick Cave, among others.