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Tirill : Nine and Fifty Swans (N,2011)****
When Tirill’s second album was ready for release in 2008 on The Wild Places, label owner Michael Piper got sick and quickly sadly passed away. A few years later, Tirill decided to re-release the first album (with a different title and a few extra tracks) and also this still unreleased album. It still is produced around the songs performed by singer Tirill. The songs are composed with acoustic guitar pickings and are played with a body of chamber-like acoustic arrangements of cello, double bass, amplified guitar and percussion and some (-at times folkier-) flute led improvisations and a bit of piano. Her sweet and charming voice is slightly breathy, is arranged here and there with subtle overdubs of her own voice or is accompanied, with close harmony, by a second, male voice, which comes a bit more to the front on “Parting”. “The Fisherman” is with spoken word, telling a story accompanied by Irish flute and pickings and a few more textures. All song lyrics are taken from texts/poems from W.B.Yeats. The instrumental arrangements are carefully interwoven with the songs, introducing and stretching the songs own atmosphere. Like the early album : beautiful.
The accompanying musicians also appeared or collaborated with bands like Slagr, We Silje Nergaard and White Willow.
Tirill played before with White Willow, Dis and the medieval music group Schola Instrumentalis. More recently she is part of Autumn Whispers. Other cooperations include songwriter Art Sebastian, some vocals on Dan Kristofferson’s debut album and some vocal sand violin on Silly Trilly’s latest album.
