Bugge Wesseltoft - It's Still Snowing on My Piano (Live) (2025) 1998

Исполнитель: Bugge Wesseltoft
Альбом: It's Still Snowing on My Piano (Live)
Жанр: Jazz
Год: (2025) 1998
Страна: Norway (Porsgrunn)
Лейбл: ACT Music
Формат: FLAC (tracks)
Official DR value: DR12
Разрядность: 24bit / 48kHz Stereo
Размер: 502 MB
Инфо: wiki
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Bugge Wesseltoft's album "It's Snowing On My Piano" is a beautifully crafted Christmas jazz album, awarded Gold and Platinum with a timeless, serene sound.

"It's Still Snowing On My Piano Live" brings a handful of recordings from Wesseltoft's Christmas concerts in Norway into your living room. The live recordings from December 2024 were taken from Nøtterøy Kulturhus, Stavanger Konserthus, Horten Kirke, Ålesund Kulturhus, and Mandal Kulturhus.

"Would you like to make a Christmas record?" asked Siggi Loch, the legendary founder of the ACT record label. When we first met in the fall of 1997, he was in Oslo collecting music for a Christmas album compilation. I hesitated—I wasn't a big fan of the Christmas shopping madness and stressed-out happiness. While working in a psychiatric hospital a few years earlier, I had learned the shocking truth that Christmas was the peak season for depression, mental breakdowns, and family problems. I was fortunate enough to grow up in a family where Christmas Eve was a heartwarming, quiet evening spent with family. After considering Siggi's suggestion, I agreed to make a Christmas album—on my own terms: quiet, slow, focused on fond childhood memories and the songs we sang while holding hands and circling the Christmas tree.

I remember being very nervous during the recording. It was my first solo piano recording—and at the famous Rainbow Studio, with the legendary Jan Erik Kongshaug as engineer, on the same piano frequently played by Keith Jarrett. I think you can hear my hands shaking as I clung to my idea for the record: an intro variation, a theme, an improvisation, a theme, and an outro variation, interpreting the melodies as calmly and sincerely as possible—trying to bring back those warm childhood memories.

"It's Snowing on My Piano" was released in 1997 with little expectation. It was believed to be too quiet and slow to generate significant sales or attention. However, four or five years later, it began climbing the December sales charts, eventually reaching number two in 2006, surpassed only by Mariah Carey. That same year, I gave my first concert with the album at Kalkmølla, a small, cozy cultural center outside Oslo. I remember sitting down at the piano, surrounded by 100 people in a small acoustic space. I started playing softly and slowly, just like on the album. After a few songs, I could hear the audience's deep breaths. "Oh God, this must be so boring for them," I thought.

Трэклист:

01. It's Snowing on My Piano - Nøtterøy (Live)
02. In Dulci Jubilo - Ålesund (Live)
03. Det Kimer Nu Til Julefest - Horten (Live)
04. Mitt Hjerte Alltid Vanker - Nøtterøy (Live)
05. Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen - Horten (Live)
06. What Child Is This - Mandal (Live)
07. Kimer I Klokker - Stavanger (Live)
08. Deilig Er Jorden - Nøtterøy (Live)
09. Stille Nacht / Into Eternal Silence - Stavanger (Live)

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