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The Forester

by Susanna & Ensemble neoN

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1.
I have walked so very far so far so far Have not found who you are who you are who you are Who are you Who are you You are hiding oh reveal Reveal yourself to me Who are you Who are you Red sun leaves us warm in soft Embraces From a kiss From a heart Smiling moon makes us grow wild Roses In a bubble of joy Of joy We can hear our children calling We can hear our children yowling Forest leaves us cold in green dark rooms Shivering With earth in hand Dirt in mouth Arms of sea leaves us hanging in Deep blue waves With fear in eyes Death in ears We can hear our children calling We can hear our children yowling Once again we are lost To the birds to the rocks Once again we are free Free of you free of me Once again we did fall We fell so hard we fell for you Once again we can't recall Anything of it all Once again we do lie We do cheat we do try To hurt you while we still can Hurt you bad Till it stings Once again we are lost To the birds to the rocks
2.
Hangout 05:07
Hangout here with me a little longer hang in there hang out here with me a little longer hang in there hang out here and when you are not here I wish you were here I wish you were near breathing the same air Hangout here with me a little longer you could be wiser, younger, older hang out here with me a little longer could be more truthful or stronger and when you are not here I wish you were here I wish you were near breathing the same air So you showed me the blackbirds and you played me a song you made me go on Hangout here with me a little longer why can't you why can't you hang out here with me a little longer can't you see can't you see that when you are not here I wish you were here I wish you where near breathing the same air So you showed me the blackbirds and you played me a song you made me go on
3.
Oh I am stuck in the mud stuck in the field There's no field of gold Only the old field of mud There's no field of gold Nowhere to be found Oh I am stuck in the dirt stuck in a mine There's no silver mine Only the old coal mine There's no silver mine Nowhere to be found Oh I've got sand in my eyes I've got sand in my lounges There's no waterhole Nothing but the old desert There's no waterhole Nowhere to be found Oh I've got chains on my feet chains on my hands There's no liberty nothing but the old jail I know There's no liberty Nowhere to be found Not for a hundred years No where to be found I can sure do pretend but where does it leave me hanging
4.
Intruder 05:28
Soft, immense and warm intruder Welcome to our universe welcome to the planet earth We will guide you, carefully supply you till you return to outer space Soft, immense and warm intruder Welcome to the planet earth welcome to our universe We will protect you, carefully correct you till you return to outer space This feels like something impossible like I cannot I cannot I cannot still I'll try Soft, immense and warm intruder
5.
Lonely Heart 03:00
You're an oak tree standing alone an oak that stands on it's own No matter what may come you're standing alone Holding on No matter what may come you're a lonely no matter what may come you're a lonely no matter what may come you're a lonely heart You're a lonely heart Your roots go deep underground deep into darkness you're bound No matter what may come you're standing alone Holding on No matter what may come you're a lonely no matter what may come you're a lonely no matter what may come you're a lonely heart You're a lonely heart

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Barely one year after the Rune Grammofon-release of critically acclaimed “Wild Dog”, Susanna returns with a new album. Released on her own label SusannaSonata on CD, vinyl and download in September 2013.

Susanna is known for both her own songwriting, with songs such as ‘Believer’ and her huge range of highly personal interpretations of other people’s songs. She is an intensely arresting performer; holding audiences captive with her hypnotizing vocal timbre and the powerful, all consuming sound of her band, her concerts are truly magical.

Active for more than a decade, through eight albums so far as Susanna and the Magical Orchestra/Susanna/Susanna Wallumrød, the Oslo based artist has recently been taking great steps towards greater independence and autonomy, while increasing the range of her considerable talents as a songwriter, vocal interpreter and producer.

Combining the antique notes of the Baroque theorbo, woodwinds and strings, and Susanna’s sparse piano, ‘The Forester’ – a co-production with the Norwegian Ensemble neoN – features Susanna’s strongest songwriting to date.

‘The Forester’ began to take shape when composers Julian Skar and Jan Martin Smørdal requested some material from her to arrange for the Norwegian contemporary music group Ensemble neoN. Picking from new tracks and several already released songs, the composers made new arrangements suited to the eight-piece group, and extended the title track into a fifteen-minute, three-part suite in which dark woods shroud a wanderer in a symbolic landscape of searching and loss. Being lost, or deliberately straying from the chosen path, are recurring themes on ‘The Forester’, whose subject matter ranges from disturbing natural environments to alien visitors, painted on an eerily exquisite canvas that recalls Mark Hollis, Tim Buckley, Kate Bush and Claude Debussy while remaining uniquely Susanna’s soundworld.

Recorded entirely live in one single, emotionally intense day at Oslo’s legendary Rainbow Studio, produced by Deathprod and Susanna and engineered by Jan Erik Kongshaug.

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released September 17, 2013

Susanna and Ensemble neoN
The Forester

Susanna Karolina Wallumrød: vocals and piano

Ensemble neoN
Solmund Nystabakk: theorbo
Inga Byrkjeland: cello
Karin Hellqvist: violin
Ida Kristine Zimmermann Olsen: alto saxophone
Kristine Tjøgersen: clarinet, bass-clarinet
Yumi Murakami: flute, alto flute
Ane Marthe Sørlien Holen: percussion
Magnus Loddgard: conductor



Music and lyrics composed by Susanna K. Wallumrød 
Arrangements of The Forester I & II and Intruder made by Julian Skar
Hangout, Oh, I Am Stuck, The Forester III and Lonely Heart made by Jan Martin Smørdal

Recorded at Rainbow Studio in February 2012 Oslo, Norway by Jan Erik Kongshaug
Mixed at Rainbow Studio by Jan Erik Kongshaug with Helge Sten, Jan Martin Smørdal and Susanna
Mastered by Helge Sten at Audio Virus LAB

Produced by Deathprod and Susanna

Cover design and artwork by MVM - Magnus Voll Mathiassen
Photo taken by Mizuho Yabe
Supported by FFUK, FFL&B, MFO, NKF and NKR.

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The Norwegian artist Susanna has released albums as Susanna and the Magical Orchestra/Susanna/Susanna Wallumrød since 2004 on labels like Rune Grammofon/ECM/Grappa Musikkforlag and since 2011 on her own label SusannaSonata. Critically acclaimed for both her own songs and her highly personal interpretations of other people's songs. ... more

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