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With Revelation for Personal Use, Anneli Drecker again has returned home to Tromsø, Northern Norway and the Arctic. The launch of her acclaimed previous album Rocks & Straws led to three Grammy nominations, a long series of gigs and international releases culminating in a support gig for a-ha in the O2 Arena in London in front of 10,000 people.
The songs of Revelation for Personal Use ... are again based on texts by Arvid Hanssen, the beloved northern Norwegian cult poet. The poems have been translated into English by Roy-Frode Løvland, a poet and musician who also live on Hanssens home island, Dyrøy. Where the last album dealt with man's encounter with nature in the North, Revelation increasingly touches an inner landscape. During recording, Anneli experienced a career highlight tour with a-ha, but also serious illness and death within her family and circle of friends, and these contrasts have characterized the process and the themes of the album. The poems of the album depicts life during polar nights and life under the midnight sun, both concretely and metaphorically. Photo: Stian Andersen.
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Live band:
Rune Arnesen - trommer
Kjetil Dalland - bass
Eivind Aarset or Roger Ludvigsen- gitar
Sindre Hotvedt - keyboards
Jane Kelly - backing vocals
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Official Music Video for "Raindrops" from the album 'Revelation For Personal Use' (c) 2017 Rune Grammofon Records
Directed by EilifBremerLandsend
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"Breathtakingly beautiful", "magical", "epic", "magnificent" and "instantly memorable" were among the words used in reviews of her much applauded comeback album "Rocks & Straws" from 2015, her first in 10 years. Brimming with memorable melodies, subtle arrangements, evocative lyrics, strong musicianship and a vital album production, it showed a mature and confident artist moving in a somewhat surprising direction, given her background in electronic music with Bel Canto, Röyksopp and her first solo efforts. It would be no mean feat to follow up the huge artistic success of "Rocks & Straws", but to our ears "Revelation For Personal Use" is an improvement on all accounts. It is also very much a follow-up, an ode to her native town and region, and again with all the songs being based on lyrics by local cult poet Arvid Hanssen and translated to English by artist and writer Roy-Frode Løvland. Anneli has written the album's eight lovely songs, plays piano and keyboards and has produced the album. It largely moves in the same musical landscape as the previous album, with the Arctic Philharmonic present on six tracks and string arranger Sindre Hotvedt, guitarist Eivind Aarset and drummer Rune Arnesen on board again. If anything, a couple of the tracks show a slightly sharper rock edge than its predecessor.
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Ocean's Organ - Anneli Drecker
-"This video is special for me. Recording the song Ocean's Organ was the tipping point in the creation of Rocks & Straws, an album that has been more important to me on a personal level than any other music that I have been a part of. It was made with some of my oldest and best musical friends, and in the process I went to the far side of the world and found some new friends that I think I will have for the rest of my life.
The lyric is based on a poem by Arvid Hanssen, a respected poet from my native region around Tromsø, Norway in the Artic part of Norway. It tells the story of the organ in the ocean - the voices of all the sailors lost at sea that you can hear in the waves breaking on rocks and beaches everywhere. My travels with Röyksopp took me to New Zealand and there I found some beautiful singers who had grown up with the same stories, and they told them to me the way their culture tells them - as a Kapa haka. Enjoy Ocean's Organ."
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Vennlig Hilsen / Best
Kjell Kalleklev Management AS
Georgernes Verft 12, N-5011 Bergen Norway
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