This Is Stina Nordenstam [Extra tracks, Import]

Stina Nordenstam | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 19, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Sbme Import
• ASIN: B00005OM9J
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #125,452 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The music of Stina Nordenstam encompasses a place most consider private: a hiding place where sorrow flourishes into beauty and wonder. On her first four recordings, her haunted child voice wrapped itself around brooding jazz-pop, chillingly isolated folk, and crushing, heavy slabs of claustrophobic sound. Her fifth release carries all these traits into a breathless 32-minute record that is relentless in its mix of beautiful melodies and layered production. With tech heavies Tchad Blake and Mitchell Froom collaborating with Nordenstam, the sound ebbs and flows moodily--one moment presenting crashing waves of sounds, the next allowing Nordenstam her talent for eliciting the deepest emotions quietly. Suede's Brett Anderson complements Stina nicely with understated vocals, helping add an element both otherworld-spacy and unbashedly poppy. But the core of it all lies with Nordenstam--and her voice, songwriting, and lyrics are at their most eager to please, with the hummable quotient at a peak. On This Is Stina Nordenstam, Nordenstam peeps out of her emotional shell for a bit, while never losing the qualities that keep her music unique. --Andy Waltzer

Product Description

2001 album featuring, Brett Anderson (Suede) on two tracks, 'Trainsurfing' & 'Keen Yellow Planet'. Produced by Mitchell Froom. Mojo Magazine said, '...The outstanding moment is 'Keen Yellow Planet' a duet with Brett Anderson from Suede that's bulging with

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This IS definitely Stina, December 17, 2002

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Erica "e-kitty" (Illinois - United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Is Stina Nordenstam (Audio CD)

I've owned "And She Closed Her Eyes" for several years. I HAD to find it after hearing 'Little Star' on the "Romeo & Juliet Soundtrack." I listened to that album through some difficult times in my life and I still have a hard time listening to that album. I'm still very intrigued by Stina's music.

I've had this album on my wish list for quite a while. I found it at a local record store and couldn't pass it up. I didn't really know what to expect. I figured it would be similar to "And She Closed Her Eyes." I was very pleasantly surprised when I heard the album. I've been listening to it for nearly two days straight!

There is a nice combination of what I consider classic Stina and some louder stuff. Her voice against a few loud-ish guitars and some trip-hop-ish beats work very well together. 'Everyone Else In The World' has a really catchy sound to it. It's a great song to lead into the album. 'Trainsurfing' makes those toes on your feet immediately start moving to the beat, they can't help it. 'Circus' is one of my fave songs on the album - it has a bit of bubble-maker sound in the background that adds a cool little sound to it. It's not a loud tune, but has a very cool 60's feel to it. :) 'Keen Yellow Planet' has Brett Anderson adding some very cool sounding vocals to it. 'Lori Glory' is another toe-tapping song, it's definitely a song to dance around your house to. I started singing along to this song by about the fourth listen.

Stina fans won't be disappointed!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Covers all the phases nicely... Stina's poppiest to date, June 19, 2004

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kaban43 "kaban43" (Somewhere over the rainbow.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Is Stina Nordenstam (Audio CD)

Well, what an album! Pure pop brilliance from the start to finish. Stina distills over a decades worth of artistry in one short album that covers much ground musically and displays many of her various stylistic changes. I still think it is criminal that more people don't know about how good she is, especially when there is so much mediocrity in the world.

I used to say that "..And she closed her eyes" was Stina's most accessable release, and a good one for Stina first-timers to get, now it's almost a tie with "This is Stina Nordenstam"... well actually I think this probably just tips the scales slightly.

It starts with the classic "Everyone else in the world", and straight away Stina shows her brilliance...she conveys so much emotion and feeling in a three minute song. Beautiful! And that is just the start - it gets better, "Trainsurfing"'s great four on the floor beat and bass line, followed by Stina's dreamy chorus, "Keen Yellow Planet" sounds like pop music from another galaxy, and "Cirus", probably my favorite track on the CD, is so touching, with Stina declaring "I will be what's left of longing on this earth".. yes Stina, I agree 100% with you there.

Her music has always had this wonderful, sad, yearning feeling, that also uplifts you just as much. This release definitely shows her more positive side.

If you have heard about Stina and are curious, get this CD and have a listen.. By the way, the CD comes with a lots of pics inside of Stina running around like a pixie in white boots *sigh*

Thank you Stina!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Buy it...., July 28, 2002

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patrick fennell (Beautiful Ireland.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Is Stina Nordenstam (Audio CD)

Buy it, play it, listen to it and then loose yourself in it.And please people,pay no heed to Anja Garbarek fans raving on about how similar they are so that you'll go out and buy her album too. Yes they have quite similar sounding voices,uncanny even at times but thats where the likeness ends.If you like "And she closed her eyes" then you'll love this.The songs are arranged perfectly just so that you are'nt jolted by extreme ranges of tempo and by the time you've finished listening you'll want to enjoy it all over again.