release date: 30.06.2023 via Jazzland Recordings
… an impressive and thoroughly riveting album …[the] distinctive vocals are haunting in all senses of the word ★★★★ BBC Music Magazine
Oddrun Lilja Jonsdottir is a versatile and innovative composer, guitarist and vocalist from Oslo’s jazz scene. As an artist, she tours the world, and has had collaborative projects with musicians in India, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Iceland and New York, among others. She is currently a composer with Tingingsverket (commissioned music) for Vossa Jazz’s 50th anniversary in 2023, contributing her work “I”.
LILJA’s debut album “Marble” (2020) garnered rave reviews with a perfect score (6/6) in the Norwegian major daily newspaper Dagsavisen and featured on many lists of the year’s best albums, including those by Subjekt, Dagsavisen and Klassekampen.
For her sophomore release, “Mirage“, LILJA has collaborated with four traditionalists from different parts of the world: Sara Marielle Gaup from Sápmi, Celio de Carvalho from Brazil, Zakaria Houaoura from Morocco and Ashraf Sharif Khan from Pakistan. These meetings are fused together in LILJA’s music, creating from its multifaceted whole a kind of singular vision – mirage – of the world, seen from Oddrun Lilja’s perspective.
The album will be released June 30th 2023. In addition to Oddrun Lilja on guitar and vocals, the regular LILJA ensemble consists of Sanne Rambags on lead vocals, Bafana Nhlapo on percussion and vocals, Jo Skaansar on bass and Erik Nylander on drums. The album also features guest artists such as Beady Belle on vocals and Bugge Wesseltoft on piano. The album was recorded in Propeller studio in Oslo. It was mixed by Mike Hartung and produced by Oddrun Lilja and Kåre Vestrheim.
LILJA – Mirage
release date: 30th JUNE 2023
label: Jazzland Recordings
formats: LP / CD / DL, cat no: 3779540
Tracklist:
1.On Your Shoulders
2.Mirage
3.Nor River Nor Lake
4.Deatnu 2021
5.Lila
6.Yemanja
7.Khank
8. Bafana
9. Brighter Days
Line Up:
LILJA:
Oddrun Lilja: electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocal, violin and production Sanne Rambags: main vocal
Bafana Nhlapo: vocal and percussion
Jo Skaansar: double bass, electric bass and backing vocal
Erik Nylander: drums and percussion
GUEST ARTISTS:
Bugge Wesseltoft: piano and synth (4, 5)
Beady Belle: vocals (2, 3, 5)
Sara Marielle Gaup: joik (1, 4, 9)
Célio de Carvalho: percussion and berimbau (3, 6, 8) Zakaria Houaoura: guembri and vocal (5)
Ustad Ashraf Sharif Khan: sitar (7)
Sanskriti Shrestha: tablas (7)
Tore Flatjord: percussion (7)
Helge Andreas Norbakken: percussion (2)
Jakop Janssønn: gongs and bells (2)
Amalia Johanna Fougner: prenatal heartbeat (3)
Andrea Louise Horstad: backing vocal and technical assistance (3) Erlend Mokkelbost: co-production and co-composition (3)
Kåre Chr. Vestrheim: production, synth (1, 3) and vocal (1, 5)