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News - ANE BRUN  NEW SINGLE RELEASE THE PUZZLE OUT ON 18TH MAY 2009 ANE BRUN NEW SINGLE RELEASE THE PUZZLE OUT ON 18TH MAY 2009


ANE BRUN  NEW SINGLE RELEASE THE PUZZLE OUT ON 18TH MAY 2009

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May 1, 2009, 05:18 PM

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Taken from her critically acclaim current album ’Changing Of The Seasons’, Norwegian chauntese ANE BRUN releases a new single ’The Puzzle’ on 18th May 2009 on her own label DeTerMine.

’The Puzzle’ has already been No.1 on the iTunes Chart in Sweden, where Ane has been based since she studied law at Stockholm University. The new single is the third to be released from her current album, after her stark, impactful cover of Cyndi Lauper’s ’True Colours’ was released around it’s use in a major Sky TV ad campaign in December, and the follow up ’The Treehouse Song’, released in February, which picked up great radio support in the UK including plays from Jonathan Ross on his Radio 2 show, on Radcliffe and Maconie Show and Dermot O’Leary (also both Radio 2) and on Gideon Coe’s show on 6Music. Ane also performed the single on Radio 4’s Saturday Arts show Loose Ends. The video for ’The Puzzle’ can be viewed on YouTube:




After a triumphant turn at Union Chapel in London in February, where she received a standing ovation for her acoustic performance, Ane returns to the UK In support of the new single, with another headline show at the Union Chapel in London on 20th May preceded by a performance at The Great Escape Festival at St Georges Church, Brighton on 15th May.

’Changing Of The Seasons’ was recorded at Atlantis Studio in Stockholm, with producer Valgeir Sigurdsson at the helm. With previous credits including Bjork, Sigor Ros, Cocorosie and Bonnie ’Prince’ Billy, you would expect a great album, but it’s that voice which makes ’Changing Of The Seasons’ so special. Add some amazing string arrangements, written by Danish composer Malene Bay-Landin and American composer Nico Muhly (Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Antony & the Johnsons) and the album makes for one of the most exciting debuts for 2009.

The daughter of a jazz-singing (still gigging) mother, Ane first picked up a guitar whilst at University, needing a distraction to occupy her free time. She recorded her debut album while finishing her studies. By her third album, duets with Ron Sexsmith and Teitur along the way, she was touring around the world, with demand as far afield as Australia and Japan, collecting music awards (including a Norwegian Grammy) and platinum selling records.

From Molde in Norway, famous for it’s mountain panoramas, it would follow that Ane’s music is most noted for it’s stark, spacial arrangements, but ’Changing Of The Seasons’ provides a free-flowing eclectic collection of songs, with it’s share of country, hymnal and folk inflections.

Those who find the long wait between Kate Bush albums intolerable could do a lot worse than look to Brun to tide them over.” THE INDEPENDENT
It’s hard not to be moved by Norwegian chanteuse Ane Brun.” THE SUN
Pretty amazing stuff for someone who only picked up a guitar aged 21.” THE FLY
An instinct for unorthodox but strong melodies and you’ve got a package you mess with at your peril.” THE WORD
Just the thing for detoxing your ears in January.” METRO
Somewhere between the McGarrigles and Dolly Parton, though her snapshots of inner life are her own.****” UNCUT
Everything is in place for a fine 2009 for Miss Brun.” CLASH
Wonderfully atmospheric.” ARTROCKER
Squirt equal amounts of Bjork and Ray LaMontagne into your pop Mr Frosty.****” THE TIMES
Presented as part of the same scene as Joanna Newsom, but she’s a far more commercial proposition. Pleasantly reassuring.” THE OBSERVER MUSIC MONTHLY

















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