Silje Nergaard – Tomorrow We’ll Figure Out the Rest (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:16 minutes | 1010 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Silje Nergaard is an award-winning Norwegian jazz-pop singer/songwriter who peaked in popularity after the turn of the century with the chart-topping albums At First Light (2001) and Nightwatch (2003). Born on June 19, 1966, in Steinkjer, Norway, she cites influences that include Al Jarreau and Joni Mitchell. As a teenager she became something of a national sensation when she joined an impromptu jam session at the 1983 Molde Internasjonal Jazz Festival. In 1984 she made her solo recording debut with a 7″ single, “One of These Mornings”/”My Funny Valentine,” released on PolyGram. Several years later she signed a recording deal with Lifetime Records and made her full-length album debut with Tell Me Where You’re Going (1990), the first of three English-language jazz-pop albums produced and co-written by Richard Niles. The highlights of these early albums, the others being Silje (1991) and Cow on the Highway (1995), were later compiled on the best-of collection The Lifetime Years (2005). After parting ways with Lifetime Records, Nergaard released a couple Norwegian-language albums on the label Kirkelig Kulturverksted: Brevet (1995) and Hjemmefra (1996). Upon signing a major-label recording deal with Universal Music, Nergaard broke through to mainstream success in 2000 with Port of Call, a full-length English-language effort comprised largely of cover material. Port of Call was a Top Ten hit on the Norwegian albums chart and set the stage for her chart-topping follow-up albums, At First Light (2001) and Nightwatch (2003). Like Port of Call, these two albums feature a quartet comprised of Tord Gustavsen (piano, Rhodes), Harald Johnsen (acoustic bass), and Jarle Vespestad (drums), in addition to Nergaard (vocals). Almost entirely self-composed, Nightwatch was especially successful, earning Nergaard a Spellemannprisen award for Musician of the Year. In the wake of this success, Be Still My Heart: The Essential (2005), a best-of collection also featuring some new material, was released, along with the aforementioned Lifetime compilation. Subsequent albums Darkness Out of Blue (2007) and A Thousand True Stories (2009), both Top Five hits, feature an expanded band and arrangements by Vince Mendoza.
Nergaard moved to Sony for 2010’s seasonal album If I Could Wrap Up a Kiss. Unclouded followed in 2012, featuring a cameo from John Scofield. Chain of Days appeared in 2015 For You a Thousand Times in 2017. ~ Jason Birchmeier
Tracklist:
1-1. Silje Nergaard – You Are the Very Moon (04:20)
1-2. Silje Nergaard – Lover Man (03:58)
1-3. Silje Nergaard – Mamma og pappa synger (00:37)
1-4. Silje Nergaard – A Perfect Night to Fall in Love (03:49)
1-5. Silje Nergaard – Vekket i tide (04:26)
1-6. Silje Nergaard – Before You Happened to Me (04:10)
1-7. Silje Nergaard – Silje synger (00:57)
1-8. Silje Nergaard – Dance me Love (06:50)
1-9. Silje Nergaard – My Man My Man (05:25)
1-10. Silje Nergaard – Brooklyn Rain (04:21)
1-11. Silje Nergaard – Here There and Everywhere (03:26)
1-12. Silje Nergaard – Silje og pappa snakker (00:48)
1-13. Silje Nergaard – Tomorrow We’ll Figure Out the Rest (05:03)