Thursday, February 9, 2012

Anna Ternheim live in the Muffathalle

Anna Ternheim Anna Ternheim has the enormous talent, the magic and atmosphere of nocturnal rest to turn into touching music. Born in Stockholm, the 31-year-old now lives in the U.S., where they transformed their songs about changing collaborators in new scenes. For her new album "The Night Visitor", the guitarist went with the velvety voice in a creative exchange with the rock musician Matt Sweeney and into the hands of productional folk veteran Dave Ferguson. The result of this most intimate work presents Anna Ternheim of 11 to 21 February as part of their tour of Germany in Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt and Freiburg.

"The day I was born in 1978, there was a power outage. I arrived early at three clock by the light of torches to the world. Therefore, I compose music nightly. This has always been and will probably stay that way forever, "says the Swedish cosmopolitan Anna Ternheim. In fact, she explained, she was always the most creative when dawn the deepest hours of the night. It is the silence and solemn mood of the darkness that pervades their work, and they brought their intense live performances to berückendem life.

Anna Ternheim soon discovered her talent on the acoustic guitar. At the age of ten she took her first lessons and soon realized that their theory behind the music does not mean much. With the intent they tried to not dilute their autodidactic approach by too much background knowledge in order to give their songs as an authentic, personal touch. After an exchange year in the U.S., where she gained as a singer of the band Sova stage experience, she wrote and produced her debut album "Somebody Outside" in an abandoned sawmill on the small island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. For this she received, as well as the successor to "Separation Road", the P3s Prize, the Swedish equivalent of the Grammy.

Since 2009, the ethereal and mysterious-looking singer with amazing voice lives in New York. Here they first produced almost single-handedly her third album, "Leaving on a Mayday". After the subsequent tour, she devoted herself for the first time since the teen years extensively to improve their technical skills on the guitar. Together with Matt Sweeney (Cat Power, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy), she composed the songs for her new album "The Night Visitor," which was recorded last spring in Nashville. The work was produced by longtime Johnny Cash Engineer Dave Ferguson, accompanied her on this journey some of the most legendary musicians of the Nashville music scene. So Anna Ternheim is again succeeded in creating a work of unique, dark charisma that shows what an extraordinary musician and sensitive to her.

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