Ane Brun
- Website
- www.anebrun.com
- Myspace
- www.myspace.com/anebrun
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- Booking Period
- July / Aug
- Booking Situation
- Concerts/Festivals
- Forthcoming Tour Dates
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Biography
Ane Brun is a songwriter, guitarist and vocalist from Norway. Since 2000 she has lived in Stockholm, Sweden, where she started her own independent record label DetErMine Records together with The Tinys leadsinger Ellekari Larsson in 2002.
DetErMine records soon started a Distribution and Licence-collaboration with record label V2 Music. Her debut album "Spending time with morgan" got great reviews and was released all over Europe in 2003. It was nominated in the Swedish Independent music awards "Manifest" 2003. Her second album "A Temporary dive" was released in Europe in 2005 and after only 3 weeks it sold gold in her home country Norway. In November 2005 she released "Duets", an album consisting of 10 duets with 10 wonderful artists. The single "Lift Me" with Norwegian band Madrugada became a huge radio favorite, and it resulted in a Norwegian Grammy Award for Hit of the Year 2005 .
The album "Duets" includes songs feat. Teitur, Tobias Froberg, Liv Widell, Wendy McNeill, Ron Sexsmith, Syd Matters, Tingsek, Ellekari Larsson from The Tiny, Madrugada and Lars Bygden. The last couple of years Ane Brun has been touring all over Europe and now also in the USA. Her second album "A temporary dive" was released in the UK and the US in May 2006, where she has recieved amazing reviews in Rolling Stone, Time Out NY, Time Magazine, People's Magazine, The Independent, LAS Magazine, Washington Post and many more (check out www.anebrun.com for more reviews).
She has played many festivals such as The Lowlands Festival (NL), Hultsfred (SWE), ya, Quart, Moldejazz, Norwegian Wood (NOR), South By South West (US). In September 05 she was supporting Keren Ann on her UK tour and at the Olympia in Paris, in December 05 she was supporting act for A-HA at Wembley Arena in London.
Ane Brun won the Norwegian Alarm Awards for Best Pop Album 2005. She also won the Norwegian Spellemannsprisen (Grammies) for Best Female Artist 2005. She was nominated as best Norwegian Act on European MTV Music Awards 2005, best Norwegian song of the century (Norwegian National Radio) and best Swedish Female Pop Artist at the Grammis.
In 2007 Ane released her first live album "Live in Scandinavia" with the DMF String Quintet, Staffan Johansson (guitars) and Nina Kinert.
Reviews
"This Norwegian girl with a guitar has a whiff of the coffeehouse about her, but it's a good coffeehouse. Her depressing songs are monumentally mordant (many are about breakups, one's about death), but she also flashes a sense of humor ("My friend, you left me in the end/ I can't believe I'm writing a song where friend rhymes with end") and really comes out of her shell on Song No. 6, a sweet, stomping duet with fellow melancholic Ron Sexsmith. Most compelling of all is her voice--a mix of Bjork's unpredictability and Joni Mitchell's directness that makes even the dourest material affecting."
Time Magazine - 1 of 5 Best Albums of May.By JOSH TYRANGIEL. Sunday, Apr. 30, 2006
"I become aware of the subtle beauty of A Temporary Dive, Bruns second album. Hidden delights like the mystical classicism of the opener "To Let Myself Go" and the bluesy despondency of "My Lover Will Go," augmented by swooping strings, come to the fore, like a stranger walking out of the fog. The minimal accompaniment of Bruns meditative acoustic finger picking, performed with delicacy and troubled expression, in the title track and "Rubber & Soul" gives Brun an appropriately empty stage from which to expel her inner demons in soul-baring lyrics. The same is true of "Laid In Earth," Bruns reverential reworking of a 17th century aria written by Henry Purcell, but its the lovely mix of violins and cello arranged by Malene Bay-Foged that sends it hurtling to the depths of despair. "
LAS Magazine 2006
Forthcoming Tour Dates
May 2008
- 13 | Crawdaddy, Dublin
- 14 | Bush Hall, London
- 15 | Glee Club, Birmingham
- 16 | The Met, Bury
- 18 | King Tuts, Glasgow