Embracing the Riddle Within Listening Post 310. We all have strengths and frailties, multifaceted personalities and lives, good and bad days. On Tonen i meg (The Tone in Me), Sigrid Moldestad, the Norwegian singer-songwriter-musician, joins forces with Sigrid...
Tripartite Fairy Tales Listening Post 286. Three women who present themselves as pixies, mixing real and mythic realms. Three pillars: Smart theatricality; venue (a biodiverse marsh); and group name (Sen Svaja), from an Old Prussian term meaning “with family,”...
The Best of Times Listening Post 146. Sigrid Moldestad’s stature as a composer rests on more than her exquisite melodies. On Vere Her (Being Here) she aligns elements of nature and imagination—love and mortality, stress and relief; rain and sun; memory and hope;...
Artist for All Seasons Listening Post 78. Poets and writers from Ecclesiastes to Aeschylus, from Shelley to Kahlil Gibran, have described the thin line between joy and sorrow, but peerless is the musician who can erase the line and capture both emotions in a single...
Winter Landscape, Spring Voice Listening Post 10. Perusing the bleak scenes at Oslo’s Munch Museum, you can be forgiven for thinking that Norway’s most renowned painter worked only in winter. Ingebjørg Bratland’s songs focus more on singing larks and summer meadows....
