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Sissel Does Not Disappoint
OK: Sissel releases an album after seven years. A perfectly good one. |
Rating 4 (out of 6): Even though it's been nearly seven years since Sissel Kyrkjebø released an album, there are few who have forgotten her.
NEW CD
Sissel:
"All Good Things"
Mercury/Universal
After a great deal of trial and error the lady with the fantastic voice has found what she believes are the right songs and the right collaborators, and the result is an okay album which neither impresses nor disappoints too much.
The producer Jørn Dahl has given the whole an attractive packaging, which brings out Sissel's classical voice. At times it is perhaps a little too careful and a little bit monotonous. Most of the songs are namely slightly pompous ballads with Kyrkjebø's voice carrying the songs, and although she impresses without overdoing the vibrato or phrasing, like many of her American competitors usually do, we miss a little of the bit extra Sissel usually provides.
The opening song, "Weightless," which is the only song left from the USA-recording, is one of the album's absolute best. Otherwise, Espen Lind gets a plus for his contribution, "Where The Lost Ones Go," where he also sings. Lind and Kyrkjebø sing together amazingly well, and will certainly be seen on the hitlists, both here at home and abroad.
By Øystein Eide, translated from Norwegian by Robert A Jones
Publisert: 24. Nov 2000
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