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First American review (4 of 5 points):
GOOD SOUND US
Audiophile Mag.
She has
impressive technical skills, but she´s also emotionally engaging and
honest. And she’s a charming lyricist (all in English, by the way) who
writes about love’s joys and difficulties with a clear eye and a poetic
ear.
Joseph Taylor
CONFIRMED TOURDATES 2010:
25.02. Arendal, Arendal Jazz Club
05.03. Berlin, B-Flat 22:00 h
06.03. Zehdenick, Klosterscheune
07.03. Dresden, Dreikönigskirche (Musik zwischen den Welten)
13.03. Kassel, Kasseler Jazzfrühling
14.03 Bremen, Schlachthof
(Radio Bremen Live Übertragung)
15.03. Bremen (radio recording
"ON THE TRACKs" at 10.30-13.00 PM)
17.04. Oslo,
Herr Nilsen
18.04. Stavanger, Hillevåg church with the choir Concentus
20.04. Halle,
Objekt 5
21.04. München, Unterfahrt
22.04. Duisburg, Steinbruch
23.04. Essen, Zeche Karl
24.04. Lüdinghausen, Burg Vischering
25.04. Bad Wildungen, Wandelhalle
14.07. Memmingen, Memminger Meile
06.08. Deidesheim, Palatia Jazz
RED is
now released in Norway, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Japan.
Now available on
Itunes
LET GO, an album previously
released in Norway in 2006, is now relaunched in Germany.
CD Of The Week Mdr-Figaro
CD Of The Week NDR Info, Playjazz
Deutschlandradio Kultur said this when reviewing Let Go:
Flowing freely, zealously following her musical visions and trains of
thought, Randi Tytingvåg abandons herself to the sheer joy of musical
experimentation and unbridled passion for fabulating. Willingly, you
join her chanson-like "Rat Race" against the omnipresent Higher!
Faster!, to realize that with her Kate Bushian vocals, she is indeed
among the winners in the end. If the violin sets the pace on "Rat
Race", the melancholy sound of the accordeon and airy ease of the piano
lie gently upon "Let There Be You And Me".
Latest reviews of RED in
Germany:
You put this CD on, and from the very first second you can’t help being
thrilled by that crystalline clear voice...
Listening tips: "Red or Dead", the very special version of Cole
Porter’s classic "My Heart belongs to Daddy" and the emotional "Why" –
one of the most beautiful songs of this autumn.
Nico Steckelberg, Hoerspiegel.de
On „Red“ we find harmonic ballads like „Red or dead“ and „Song for
Alice“, dramatic pieces with instrumental fireworks of trombone,
accordeon, clarinet, cello, saxophone, chimes, piano and
distinctive percussion work („Quiet noise”, „Mr. Barn“, „Cohesion“)
along with befitting cover versions („My heart belongs to daddy“). With
this, Randi Tytingvag has accomplished a timeless work, not only for
hardcore jazz fans.
CDStarts.de
No one had ever heard of her over here, but now she’s stirred up quite
a buzz with her new CD „Red“: Norwegian Randi Tytingvåg. With a mixture
of folklore, electronic and a touch of jazz, she creates her very own
worlds of sound – not only as a singer, but as a composer. Her style
is willful, but catchy. It’s a fresh wind, blowing down out
of Scandinavia.
Ulrike Kukula, WDR3 Resonanzen
...a self-confident artist, whose approach successfully combines tame
downbeat moments with intelligent bar acrobatics. ...the
quintessence may very well be based on jazz, but it moves over, when
necessary, for folk, avantgarde, chanson, as well as South American (!)
rhythms. When Ms Tytingvag sings she appears so worldly-wise that you
can hardly guess her real age of early thirties. She’ll certainly get
respect for not only that, but for the fact that "Red", with all of its
facets, doesn’t have a single flaw.
Sellfish
Somewhere between Tom Waits, Astor Piazolla and Cole Porter, the
thirty-one-year-old musician creates a tremendous wealth of melodies
and harmonies that could easily fill several concept albums.
Mane Stelzer, MELODIVA CD Tipp November 2009
...unbelievably multifaceted, sometimes cuddly, sometimes a
glamourous/cool way to sing.
Andreas Lüschen-Heimer, Treff 19.11.2009
5 of 6 points in
Kulturnews.de
A convincing
example of new jazz music which has left the ivory tower of swing and
bebop.
Kulturnews 11 2009
Edelhagen.de (digitale jazz-zeitung):
"A new voice full of passion. It opens new individual sound
facets with graceful sonority."
Querfunk, Freies Radio Karlsruhe:
"The Norwegian singer is convincing and is very much in sync with her
time as she presents her distinctive mix of jazz, Folk, chanson,
pop, tango and Classical elements. A successful international career is
approaching for Randi Tytingvåg."
Roland Altenburger
Good review in Stereoplay. "Klangtipp" of the month.
Stereoplay
Randi Tytingvåg on BR Klassic U21 Radio:
BR
Klassic
"Quiet Noise" and "My Heart Belongs To Daddy" is playlistet at the
radio station WDR5
Monday 09.11-09:
Playlistet at Bayerischer Rundfunk:
playlist
Sunday 07.11 2009:
"Song For Alice" was played in Lindenstrasse, probably Germany´s oldest
TV soap (since 1985).
16.10-09:
RED IS LAUNCHED IN GERMANY:
Jazzthetik
Jazzzeitung
Jazzthing.tv
CD Of The Week at RBB RADIO 1
CD Of The
Week at HR2
Album Of The
Week at Lounge.fm
CD of the week at Okerwelle 104,6
AUDIO: The Audiophile Pop CD Of The Month
She wanted
to „go her own way“, a way on which she would never stop asking
questions and learning – this is the motto of singer/songwriter Randi
Tytingvåg, who likes to use an understatement to describe herself
simply as, a „story-teller“. The Norwegian artist studied jazz singing
in London, and with her band, interprets her own songs in the most
excellent and elegant jazz tradition.
JZ: What inspires you for your lyrics? Some of them seem to be taken
straight from life...
Tytingvåg: There’s a story behind every one of my songs. Something that
happened to me only, or some one that I know. Or something that I hear
or read. It has to be a theme that really gets to me, something
that makes me furious or sad. I call it the "emotional trigger" –
something that makes me want to take action. Then I try to make
something personal out of it, without getting „private“...a very
important difference!
Carina Prange, Jazzzeitung -5- 2009
...a perfect bastard of jazz, cabaret, chanson and songwriting.
... Tytingvåg’s enormous vocal diversity really comes into its own: now
clarinet-like, purring like a cat, then with a sighing passion, and
then with transparent reflection...
This noisy quirkiness in every dynamic facet, it’s already called „Red“
with a capital „R“, still sounds like it’s climbing organically out of
strings and keys, not out of a computer. And it is foiled again and
again by clear lyrical oases, like in the fantastically etherial ballad
"Why": a folky pastel with trickling piano and a meshwork of
unidentifiable floating particles. To all this, the lyrics may seem
somewhat sparse; but they pack an enormous punch...
Stefan Franzen, Jazzthing November 2009
Soft, smooth, with a pleasant profundity, this is how Norwegian singer
Randi Tytingvåg presents herself on ,,Red". The result is a catchy yet
fresh, multifarious, and wonderfully instrumented amalgamation out of
folk, tango and chanson, enriched with an admittedly very carefully
dosed pinch of jazz. No matter. This album is great anyway.
Volker Doberstein, JazzPodium November 2009
"...this young lady from Norway has just presented a bewitching
album with „Red“, an album with huge emotional depth.
The color
"Red" is a very grateful theme. Not only in paintings and literature,
but also in music, there’s a lot that can be developed to it. Randi
Tytingvag shows this in a beguiling way on her new work. To her, "Red"
is a symbol for vitality, and the Norwegian is particularly fond of
telling her stories with colors and pictures. Musically,
Tytingvag has not yet made a style commitment. It almost seems as if
she is still testing what she can really do with her voice, which is
full of character and sometimes pleasantly coquet, and sometimes it
seems that she is surprised herself at how good it sounds.
The highly
versatile instrumentation of her band is also quite striking. There’s
cello and accordeon, but also Fender-Rhodes keyboard, chimes, plus
numerous electronic effects .
Some tracks
are jazzy, some would be wonderful for dancing the tango, and others
are simply timeless Norwegian chansons.
Randi
Tytingvag is not only a new voice, but a unique voice, one that takes
you into a world where you want to stay for a veeery long time."
Matthias
Wegner, Deutschlandradio Kultur 22.10.09 / Radiofeuilleton
Audiophile
Pop-CD of the month
"Impressive
jazz-folk-tango-electronic-cocktail of excellant sound."
Claus Dick,
Audio 11/2009
"At any
rate, Tytingvåg blows the genre „jazz“ far, far away – happily dipping
into folk, rumba, chanson and bossa nova. Jumping styles in perfect
time, she is accompanied by a gleeful orchestra that radiates at least
as much enthusiasm as its singer. The color of these 11 songs is very
clearly red – how else can you visualize pure energy."
Rhein Neckar
Zeitung 09.10.2009
"Even when
they’re not covering standards, many nordic singers still sound
standard today. Not so Randi Tytingvåg from Stavanger. Just the way she
wrenches a heartfelt Marilyn Monroe out of Cole Porter’s classic „My
Heart Belongs To Daddy“, Chapeau! It sounds like Tom Waits stranded in
Maghreb. And in her own compositions this amazing lady creates an
irritatingly imposing mix of jazz, folk, cabaret, ballad, tango and
ambient."
Detlef
Kinsler, Journal Frankfurt
HR2
Kultur: CD Of The Week october 12. - 17. 2009
"...Just
because you don’t know how to pronounce her name doesn’t mean you
shouldn’t get to know this young Norwegian singer, especially if you
appreciate well-made songs far beyond the mainstream. Style and genre
don’t interest this 31-year-old from the coastal city of Stavanger. She
takes a little of everything that fits: jazz, folk, tango, vaudeville,
chanson and electronic. She forms quiet songs from all this, singing
little stories about people and their dealings with each other. "Red"
is the name of her third CD: in Norway she climbed the charts long ago.
Maybe now she’ll find an audience in the rest of the world, she
certainly deserves it!"
Gregor
Praml, HR2 Mikado
"Chansons
from the North! Her repertoire of folk, jazz and cabaret can hardly be
described as anything else. On "Red" the 31-year-old convinces with
music that sounds like Leonard Cohen and reminds you of Astor
Piazzolla."
Freundin 23.09.2009
"A fine CD, recommended for open ears and sharp minds."
Nordische Musik
Album Of The Week
"Randi Tytingvåg is definitely a singer who can hold her own with the
likes of her celebrated colleagues, Silje Nergaard, Beady Belle or
Rebekka Bakken. She has a voice you recognize immediately, unique,
expressive, full of nuance. There are lots of good music-makers who
play superbly and deliver perfect productions, but only a few manage to
touch the soul."
Lounge.fm
"At some point we’ll have to find an answer to the question as to what
it is, exactly, that drives Norwegians to jazz: Silje Nergaard, Rebekka
Bakken, Hanne Hukkelberg and now Randi Tytingvåg. This 31-year-old is
far ahead of her rivals however, having the vision to see beyond her
own back yard. On "Red", classic vocal jazz melts with tango, folk and
world music; Tytingvåg and her musicians play with utmost
sophistication and deliver with the highest degree of finesse."
Weser Kurier
"Piano, accordeon, bass, and drums along with Randi Tytingvåg's crystal
clear, delicately haunting voice are the forces that are driving her
third album, "Red". She tells all kinds of little stories here, stories
written by life, showing a highly perceptive sense of observation and
fine feeling for language."
5 points. (from 5 possible points).
Ulf Drechsel, Deutschlandradio Kultur 30.09.2009
06.10 2009
Playlistet at German Television justMusic.tv:
Playlist
22.09 2009:
FIFTH WEEK AT VG LISTA! And the album is a bestseller at the record
shop
Bare Jazz in Oslo:
Bare Jazz Listing
15.09 2009:
FOURTH WEEK AT VG LISTA
VG
LISTA
08.09 2009:
THIRD WEEK AT VG LISTA!
RED climbed to number 14
this week.
VG
LISTA
And number 30 at the top 40 album chart!
TOP
40
04.09 2009:
TV
Aftenbladet
First reviews of RED:
 Stavanger
Aftenblad
02.09
2009
Geir Flatø
"This is Randi Tytingvåg´s master piece!"
Stavanger
Aftenblad
Aftenposten
31.08
2009
Svein Andersen
"A GREAT SINGER AND ARTIST
She is singing with great warmth, presence and authority. (...) She is
no longer just promising. She has established herself as one of the
finest female jazz singers in Norway."
Aftenposten
 Gudbrandsdølen
Dagningen
27.08 2009, Per Ivar Henriksbø
"If the Norwegian Grammy jury can overlook Randi Tytingvåg, I will
forever think of them as blind and deaf."
Gudbrandsdølen
Dagningen
DAGBLADET
26.08
2009
Terje Mosnes
"A UNIQUE AND SOLID THIRD EDITION."
Dagbladet
JAZZNYTT No. 5 2009:
"Tytingvåg has her very own original style with a personal touch to
everything she sings. ´Red´is her third CD and it confirms and
strengthens her artistic integrity. (...)
In this mix of initimacy, drama and cabaret Tytingvåg presents as a
current leading Norwegian voice."DAGSAVISEN 22.08 2009
Roald Helgheim
"Randi Tytingvåg is a solid artist from Stavanger. Her lyrics are
unique and her vocal characteristics very strong. The music is
influenced by both cabaret, gospel and Kurt Weill, and Billie Holiday
and Tom Waits are both important sources of inspiration.(..)You needn´t
know more to enjoy this album."
Dagsavisen
 NORDLYS
Vårt Land, Marianne Lystrup:
"The artist has dedicated the album to her teacher, Marit Åbotnes, for
always encouraging independence and curiosity. That we can hear, and we
thank her too."
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