Lisa Bassenge
Wildflowers

Lisa Bassenge – vocals
Jacob Karlzon – piano
Andreas Lang – bass

Lisa Bassenge is back, and she's brought flowers. With Wildflowers, she is completing her trio trilogy – with Jacob Karlzon at the piano and Andreas Lang on bass. The songs: apparently wildly random, yet nevertheless cut from the same cloth. The spectrum ranges from Dolly Parton to Depeche Mode, from Bob Dylan to Death Cab for Cutie. A mixed bouquet, but the individual pieces seem like chapters of the same story, thanks to the way they are arranged and performed by these three. Each dazzles on its own, but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This equally applies to the trio itself. The two musicians – Jacob Karlzon from Sweden, known to the Neuhardenberg audience as Viktoria Tolstoy's pianist, and Andreas Lang from Denmark – embed Lisa Bassenge's inimitable voice in a warm sound that is very Scandinavian, in the best sense: relaxed, but always obliging, dynamic and energetic but never intrusive, and they do this with obvious enjoyment. 'This sound has found us,' says Lisa Bassenge. With Wildflowers, the three prove what a breathtaking live act they are. Jazz, pop, chanson? The Lisa Bassenge Trio's music does not fit into any particular pigeonhole. It is all about the beauty and truth of the songs, and it is a celebration of the singer's and musicians' mutual inspiration.