Kirsti Huke - Weaving (2020)

Kirsti Huke has been a prominent vocalist and a clear figure in the Norwegian music landscape from time to time on the jazz line in Trondheim, when she brought together fellow students Håvard Wiik, Steinar Raknes and Håkon Mjåset Johansen and formed Kirsti Huke quartet. In the more than twenty years that have passed since then, she has been through a number of different genres that she has kneaded and kneaded, cut up and sewn together in her own personal and versatile way. Loud and lyrical or stormy strong and outgoing, whichever.

In 2017 she wrote and performed the commission for the Trondheim jazz festival. This year the music is coming out on Jazzland; Finally, many will say! Weaving is a concept album with relatively unconventional vocals: vocals, trumpets and two drum sets. Wrapped in a soft blanket of analog electronics, we get texts about loneliness and friendship, about a brutal and unfamiliar reality under an increasingly hot sun. It wouldn't be Kirsti Huke unless the musical range was there, the contrasts and the sudden changes. Weaving is a band that embraces and cultivates change, but the core is firm! It does not move