Italian singer-songwriter, in the early 1970s produced electronic based experimental works... Tangerine dreamlike sequencing with lyrical vocals and musique concrete elements ...dedicated to Karlheinz Stockhausen ...
"We are happy to introduce the excellent young singer and songwriter
Hilde Marie Kjersem with her first solo album. Neither a jazz album nor
your typical melancholy Nordic singer songwriter album, let´s say its
pop music with a twist, quite a few twists come to think of it, inviting
the listener to a dramatic, beautiful, mysterious, seductive, dark,
intricate and quite simply different sounding and fascinating musical
ride." ... RuneGrammofon
But A Killer is Kjersem's show, all eleven songs written by the
singer and demonstrating a wealth of ideas and breadth of scope. The
title track is gorgeous, where a layered choir is all that's needed to
support Kjersem's evocative vocal. "Midwest Country" is, indeed, an
Americana-centric song that still manages to feel somehow skewed, while
another solely vocal track, "Save Up," reflects a southern gospel
influence. Kjersem's voice is remarkably malleable—soft and warm on the
closing "Working Girl," where a lovely mix of Torbjørn Folke Zetterberg
banjo and Kjerstem's Fender Rhodes leads into a majestic ending;
understated on the electonica-centric "London Bridge"; and ethereal on
the dramatic "Marie Antoinette." She rarely lets loose, as she did more
consistently in performance, but it makes the rare occasion when she
does here far more effective... www.allaboutjazz.com
A lot of time for Shelagh McDonald in these parts... Disappeared in 1971 after two albums, but now looks like she's on the way back ... Mirage ...from Album
