The Wild Places  Tirill : A Dance with the Shadows (N,2004)***°

This is the solo debut of Tirill Mohn, former member of the Norwegian folkprog group, White Willow. I had to lay it aside a bit, because the approach is different from what White Willow does (although similar flavours are recognisable, like on “Don't dare to love you”) . This is a definite singer-songwriter album, sung in English. It’s well arranged, basically acoustically, with lots of attention to detail, with compact clear folksongpop-oriented tracks with a dreamy sensitivity, with a flavour of a warm wind and early spring (“Dressed in Beauty”), with some pastoral aspects of acoustic music (but here and there also with some real folk elements, like on “Golds of Morning”), with a fresh sound of chamber music arrangements, always sung with a slightly whispery voice and additional voice arrangements. A couple of tracks (like “It Was Blue” & Ruby”, "When you skeep",..) also have some accordion arrangements. Very good !

Info : http://tirill.no/ & http://www.progrock.no/TirillMohn.htm

Other reviews : http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/tirill.html & http://www.tirill.no/review.php

Label entry : http://www.thewildplaces.com/htmls/news.html

Review of late White Willow release on http://progressive.homestead.com/Norway.html

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