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TV: Morten Abel and Marion Ravn are hosting this weekend’s “Every Time We Meet” second anniversary, and Unni Wilhelmsen and Chris Holsten have been with us since yesterday. The new guests around the table are Bjarne Brøndbo, Kurt Nilsen and Sol Heilo.
Bjarne Brøndbo: “The old dance” (Kurt Nilsen / Eirik Grønner)
“There will be life here,” Bjarne tries, but it will be with the little verse. Here it should not be life, but emotions. OR?
Bjarne hasn’t played with DDE all summer, and the loss is obviously so great that he has put Kurt’s sensitive love song as close to DDE style as possible, mixed with a bit of Petty and Springsteen-style heart rock. and Marie Klåpbakken’s violin. The beauty song isn’t what Bjarne is best known for, and there’s more to it than a lot of screaming and screaming. The text does not fit this framework either. The song loses its warmth in transformation, and the lyrics are loose (or run a little “out of control”) in places. Despite the energy, it seems more anonymous than the original. You can take good songs in all directions, says Bjarne. This is probably the exception.
Kurt Nilsen: “I will not come near you again” (Unni Wilhelmsen)
Kurt proves Bjarne’s thesis in his own way when he embarks on Unni’s groundbreaking 1996 song, written for someone she was madly in love with: a secret celebrity.
Kurt doesn’t want to “ruin a good song” and acts cautiously. He doesn’t stray that far from the original – on country lane – until he and the band gradually increase the intensity and finally land it with a little “bang.” Kurt can sing whatever he wants and make it shine, and here he makes Unnis’s song shine a little more. Unni sheds a tear and says: – Now I can also go to Spotify and listen to myself, with you.
Unni Wilhelmsen: «Heroes of the night» (Kurt Nilsen / Eirik Grønner)
The second Kurt tonight. Unni stops and has to recover a bit before he can finally – with his heart in his body – start over with this song dedicated to Kurt’s father and all those who “turn the wheels”.
Yesterday he performed The September When in a very special way, and here is Kurt’s song that gets a slightly different treatment – with a banjo that is not so easy to “hear”. There is a lot of emotion involved here, because the voice almost vibrates. As for the arrangements, there is something jarring about the transition between verse and chorus, but at the same time it is a performance with warmth and nerve.
Chris Holsten: “Annabelle” (Morten Abel / Arne Hovda)
Chris has chosen a song from Morten Abel’s first Norwegian album, “In All Seriousness”. He has great respect for Morten and takes the task very seriously!
Overwhelmed or? A little …, he says after a hesitant version of “Annabelle.” Has a vision of the sea, boy. It’s a pretty good song with Abel’s cool approach, despite very simple lyrics. It doesn’t work that well in some kind of R&B rock bottling, with horns and (very) a lot of punch – and another vocalist. Chris has a great voice, but his version supports how important it is that the song and the artist go together.
Sol Heilo: “I wish I never knew you” (Christoffer Holsten / Lars Rosness / Hilde Skaar / Tobias Steinkjær)
Sol has written a new text, in Norwegian, about Chris’s relationship with his older sister, which he spoke about during his evening in “Every Time We Meet” earlier this year.
She messes up a bit for herself when she does long foreplay, or plays games, where she alternates between two microphones. It is a movement, but it also produces effects. But eventually it turns the song in a different and more exciting direction. It takes off a little!
It has become a completely new song, renamed “You Should Know”. In a respectful way, Sol portrays the excellent relationship between Chris and a challenging sister.
Marion Ravn: “Like broken mirrors” (Frode Viken / Rolf Mokkelbost)
This is one of the few sad songs by the band DDE, with painful and pleasant lyrics.
I may not be one of the first people to remember. So it’s good that it’s exactly the one Marion has chosen. He hasn’t done much with him in the first place, but his voice is naturally quite different from the raw voice of the DDE boss. So the approach is very different, also compared to Marion’s usual style. It is above all a performance worthy of a good text, signed by the band’s regular lyricist, now deceased Frode Viken.
In the last program of the anniversary round, next Friday, Odd Nordstoga returns, while Henning Kvitnes and Elisabeth Andreassen are new guests.
