Anything by Kari Bremnes (beautifully melancholic music/lyrics and an excellent voice), but especially
-"Mitt hjerte hamrer og hamrer", "Erindring" and "Børnene" from her album "Mitt ville hjerte" (the lyrics are poems by the Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen)
-"Dagen", "Møte" and "Mørke midt på dagen" from "Blå krukke"
-"Københavnerkneipe", "Montreal", "Birds" and "Sang til byen" from "Spor"
-"Skrik", "Madonna", "Aske" and "Melankoli" from "Løsrivelse" (all the lyrics on this album are poems by Edvard Munch which he wrote before he painted the pictures according to them)
-"Fiola" and "I dine skap" from "Gåte ved gåte"
-"Skjulemester", "Rose" and "Månestein" from "Månestein"
-"Sangen om fyret ved Tornehamn", "Byssan lull" and "Sangen om ka ho Anna drømte om" from "Svarta Bjørn" (very touching lyrics - if you understand them!)
-"September" from "Soløye"
-"Finn veien, engel" and "Desemberbarn" from "Desemberbarn"
-"Zarepta", "Fantastisk allerede", "Vals" and "Tia det må ta" from "11 ubesvarte anrop"
-her duet "Du endeløse natt - Ya Lel Ma Atawalk" with Rim Banna on the "Voggesanger fra ondskapens akse"-EP
Hadde Månen En Søster - "Cohen på norsk"
Anne Vada/Aki Fukakusa - "Solrenning" (Anna Vada´s voice reminds me of Kari Rueslåtten, so those who like her might like this album, too)
Kari Rueslåtten - "Spindelsinn"
Kate Bush - "The Ninth Wave"(= songs 6-12 on "Hounds Of Love), "The Fog" "Rocket´s Tail" and "This Woman´s Work" from "The Sensual World", "And So Is Love" and "The Song Of Solomon" from "The Red Shoes"
The Third And The Mortal - "Sorrow" and "Tears Laid In Earth"
Lill Lindfors - "Ett liv" (the lyrics are poems by Edith Södergran - never heard of her? So hadn´t I before I bought this album. She didn´t have a very happy life which also reflects in her poems.)
Lynni Treekrem - "Haugtussa" (the lyrics are an excerpt from Arne Garborg´s eponymous epic poem; very hard to translate - unless you are an expert in nynorsk, which I´m not - but it´s worth trying, IMO)
Dead Can Dance - "Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun"
Lisa Gerrard - "Mirror Pool" and "Duality"
Tactile Gemma - "Tactile Gemma"
Ketil Bjørnstad - "Grace" (this time, Ketil Bjørnstad, who also composed the music on "Løsrivelse", "Ett liv" and "Haugtussa", wrote the music to poems of John Donne and he did an excellent job again)
Heliumvola - "Les habitants du soleil", "Begirlich in dem hertzen min", "Du bist min", "Les habitants du soleil (Reprise)" and "Selig" from their eponymously titled debut
Qntal - "Ab Vox D´Angel" from "II" and "Spiegelglas" from "III"
Psychotic Waltz - "I Remember" from "A Social Grace", "Ashes" and "Into The Everflow" from "Into The Everflow"
The Gathering - "How To Measure A Planet?"
Natacha Atlas - "Mon amie la rose" and "The Righteous Path" from "Gedida", "Soleil d´Egypte" and "Ne me quitte pas" from "Ayeshteni"
Well, I guess that´s enough.
