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JOSEFINE CRONHOLM (Sweden / Denmark)
Josefine Cronholm - vocals
Gustaf Ljunggren - guitar
Jonas Berg - piano, keys
Gunnar Halle - trumpet
Thommy Andersson - double bass
Bent Clausen - drums, vibraphone
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Josefine Cronholm - vocals
Gustaf Ljunggren - guitar
Jonas Berg - piano, keys
Gunnar Halle - trumpet
Josefine Cronholm is a celebrated Swedish jazz vocalist and composer who has won numerous international awards.
There hasn’t been a singer like her – someone who makes the quietness of her Swedish nature surrounding enchantingly audible – for a long time. Cronholm’s clear, high voice comes from out of nowhere, developing and weaving around sound and melodies with a calmness which is quite unique.
Josefine Cronholm’s breathtaking voice is only just starting to conquer the music world outside Scandinavia. During her vocal studies at Copenhagen’s conservatory, she joined Django Bates’ Quiet Nights band. The collaboration which followed with percussionist Marilyn Mazur was also defining. Two CDs with her own songs and her own band, Ibis, brought the breakthrough when she won two Danish jazz Grammys and the Swedish Jazz Award as “Artist of the Year”. The press descibed her as “diverse, highly musical and bold” and her enthralling voice was compared to that of greats like Cassandra Wilson and Dianne Reeves.
In 2010 Josefine Cronholm released for ACT RECORDS her new Album “Songs of the Falling Feather”. The search for the essence, the essential element of a feeling, a moment or a sound, is reflected in every moment of the album. Cronholm’s song texts are filled with many personal experiences in which you can hear a love of impressionist painting. Her songs tell of the mystery of love, the search for lasting happiness, saying goodbye and of the paranoia of everyday modern life.
CD “Songs of the Falling Feather – Josephine Cronholm” on ACT RECORDS
Link: www.actmusic.com
REVIEWS
“Cronholm sings very quietly but makes every sound matter. Each song is characterised by a different dominant instrumental sound, and there are very effective atmospherics, from lonesome forest walks to creaking-boat noises. Nothing gets much above an ambient walking-pace or a kind of ringing whisper, of course, but it grows on you.”
John Fordham / The Guardian
“ ... her debut album, Songs Of The Falling Feather is stark to say the least but with a strange lightness - light as a feather ... ”
Gerry Hectic / fly global music
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