These 'songs that dream' were written by Pernilla, and produced and arranged by the duo Travelog. Participating artists on the album are, among others, Anders Honoré on saxophone, and Tchando Embalo and Mads Lumholdt whose vocal contributions have roots in, respectively, Guinea-Bissau and Greenland.
(If you click on 'Didn't Dare' in the player you will be listening to Tchando's vocals).
Musicians:
PERNILLA AIDT Vocals
TORSTEN MYHRE JENSEN Electric and acoustic guitars and real sound recordings
MIK AIDT Keyboards, grand piano, percussion, real sound recordings, special effects, cover and web design
FINN AIDT Cello
JØRGEN NIELSEN Drums
ANDERS HONORÉ Saxophone
GREG REEVES Acoustic guitar
MARTIN BORNEMANN CARLSEN Bass
TCHANDO EMBALO Vocals on Open Hand and Didn’t Dare
MIKKEL NIELSEN Vocals on Twilight and Write U 2nite
MADS LUMHOLT Vocals on This Love
MIKKEL HORNNES Trumpet and percussion
ILYA MAGNES Djembe drum and flute
Lyrics by Pernilla Aidt – except ‘This Love’: by Lisa Richards.
Music composed by Pernilla Aidt and Travelog
– except ‘This Love’: by Greg Reeves and Lisa Richards.
Produced by Travelog.
Mastering by Thomas Wind, Masterbox
Cover drawings and invaluable support by Deborah Aidt
Album title Songs that dream
Artist name Pernilla Aidt
Catalogue number MILDCD005
Barcode (EAN) 5707471008935
ISRC-code DKAU407001-01/11
Distributor in Denmark: Gatewaymusic.dk / GDC
Published by: Mild Records
Pernilla Aidt is Danish, and singing has been her livelihood since she was 19. But only few of her fellow countrymen have had the pleasure of hearing her voice, because her singing career has blossomed in France.
She has been singing a Broadway repertoire in casinos, in castles and the big hotels along the French Riviera – and jazz in many jazz-bars and jazz-cellars in Paris such as Le Bâteau-Ivre og New Morning, and at the jazz-festivals of Nice and Printemps de Bourges in Paris.
In 1998 she released an album with jazz standards and was elected ”Jazz Artist of the Year” by the French music shop chain FNAC.
42-year-old Pernilla Aidt is presently employed as a teacher in jazz singing at the Conservatoire Nationale de Region in Toulon. She has a background as a conservatory-educated classical singer, and six years ago she finished a four-year education at Berklee College of Music in the US, where she immersed herself in the universe of jazz.
When she started writing music herself, however, she created neither classical nor jazz, but something right in the middle – a mixture of several styles, which might best be described as an ‘ambient soundtrack’. The music is to be used as a soundtrack, as the matter of fact, for a book and a documentary film which will come out in 2008.
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"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly..."
Langston Hughes
"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time." Marcel Proust
"I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." Henry David Thoreau
"I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and see it through. I will solve the problems. I will pay the price. I will never walk away from my dream until I see my dream walk away: Alert! Alive! Achieved!"
Robert Schuller
'Songs that dream' is an album by Pernilla Aidt, published in December 2007. It consists of 11 dreamy songs which are based on real-life stories about love and dreams.
World-wide: The physical CD-album is ready for shipping from CDBaby.com, and the songs are available as digital mp3-files from iTunes.com, and payplay.fm. Denmark: If you live in Denmark, you can buy it with your credit card online on saxo.dk, and macuu.dk, and bilka.dk Sweden: on CDon.com Finland: on arvostelut.net
Tribute to the dreamers
Pernilla Aidt’s new album is an account of love and dreams in the Real World
”Music and dreams are of similar substance. We need to dream – and music can channel this need. So nevermind that dreams do not always become reality. Cultivating our dreams is much more important than most people realise. The world needs dreamers to create a better world - and also, what is life worth if you don't have a dream?”, asks Pernilla.
She has recorded her second solo album, ‘Songs that dream’, as a homage to wish-dreaming, a tribute to the dreamers, and it is her hope that the songs will give other people the inspiration to – in her words, “to let the dreams live”.
Pernilla has let her musical dreams float in the direction of an intimate and vulnerable expression, characterised by emotional and poetic song-collages mixed with sound recordings, and where many of the song lyrics are directly inspired from diary notes and e-mails from RL, real life.
Pernilla cultivated a style and a niche in her debut album, ‘Serene’, in 2003. In the musical universe of the new album, Pernilla has further developed this unique style where she – in her own words – “now feels one hundred per cent at home”.
The songs are to become the soundtrack for a book and a documentary film with the title 'Mail that dream' which will be published in 2008.
NOUVEL ALBUM DES MINIMUM-SERIOUS le 16 juin 2008 dans les bacs le groupe sera en tournée à partir de septembre 2008 n'hesitez pas à faire tourner cliquez sur l image pour faire un tour
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