DUG049
Baker Hansen
Ein song som liknar oss
Artist: Baker Hansen
Album title: Ein song som liknar oss
Label: Dugnad rec
Catalog number: DUG049
Release: 13th September 2024
Formats and pricing:
- vinyl from €15
- CD (jewel case) from €6
Shipping:
- From Norway to Norway
- From Slovenia to EU and rest of the world
Press
Chet Baker’s voice and trumpet helped define cool jazz. But how do his stories sound in a language of our own?
Since 2010, Baker Hansen has explored that question through a distinctive blend of reinterpretation and interplay, drawing on the music Baker made iconic. These timeless, familiar songs are given new life through carefully crafted dialect translations by vocalist Sigurd Rotvik Tunestveit, from Ål in Hallingdal. When “The Night We Called It a Day” becomes “Midnattssol,” and Columbus and Edison are replaced by Nansen and Fosse in “They All Laughed,” the result is both intimate and revelatory: a fresh way of hearing this music through local language, culture, and sensibility.
Released on 13 September 2024, Baker Hansen’s fourth album takes this approach further than ever, leaving a stronger personal mark on the original material both lyrically and musically. In that sense, the title Ein song som liknar oss (“A Song That Resembles Us”) is especially fitting, borrowed from Sylfest Lomheim’s Norwegian rendering of the French classic Les Feuilles Mortes, better known to many as “Autumn Leaves.”
Credits
Vocals and Norwegian lyric adaptations - Sigurd Rotvik Tunestveit
Trumpet - Erling Skorpen
Piano and keyboards - Kjetil Jerve
Double bass - Stian Andreas Egeland Andersen
Drums, congas and percussion - Tore Flatjord
Liner notes and adaptation of “Haustlauv” - Sylfest Lomheim
Recording - Mads Ragnar Johansen at Folkets hus Lilleaker in December 2022 and January 2023
Producer - Baker Hansen
Mixing - Hans Andreas Horntveth Jahnsen
Mastering - Morgan Nicolaysen
Cover photo - Harald Opheim
Concert photos - Stig Emil Sandland
Logo and cover design - Christopher Owe
LP and CD pressing - Pallas Group
Kjetil, Erling, Tore, Stian and Sigurd
