Description
The album Ane Brun โ Songs: 2003 โ2013 is a 2 x CD compilation album (31 songs), The track listing is in chronological order and includes songs from all of her eight albums. Its a standard jewel case CD
SONGS 2003-2013 overflows with some of Brunโs finest recordings, drawing upon work from each of her albums and therefore allowing for both studio and live versions of some of her most popular songs. It also contains a handful of rare tracks, including a gorgeous take on Arcade Fireโs โNeighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)โ.
In addition, new material is present, amongst it a re-recording of โThis Voiceโ that reflects its live arrangement, and โFeeling Goodโ, a cover of the Newley/Bricusse classic made most famous by Nina Simone โ and also often sung by Brunโs mother, a jazz singer and pianist in her own right โ which is here recast as an acoustic sigh of pastoral optimism. An orchestral interpretation of โDonโtโ Give Upโ (taken from Peter Gabrielโs New Blood album) is also included, Brun taking the previously untouchable Kate Bush role and making it her own.
SONGS 2003-2013 charts Brunโs advance from the bewitching, frail acoustic compositions that made her name to the complex drama of her last album, It All Starts With One, via increasingly adventurous arrangements and an undeniably restless ambition to explore new musical opportunities. A decade in the making, it confirms ANE BRUN as an uncompromising and vital musical voice.
Brun says,
I kind of told myself early on to continue doing this as long as it gave me pleasureย and it still does, more than ever. Iโm still fingerpicking in front of my favourite TV series or with my morning coffee, just like I did ten to fifteen years ago. And it still fascinates me, just like it did when I wrote one of my very first songs, โWooden Bodyโ, sometime around the year 2000โฆ
