Ane Brun

Ane Brun – Rarities 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:11 minutes | 448 MB | Genre: Indie Pop, Indie Folk, Art Pop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Balloon Ranger Recordings AB

Ane Brun is a Norwegian songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist of Sami origin. Since 2003, she has recorded eleven albums, eight of which are studio albums of original material (including a collection of duets), an acoustic album, and two covers albums; she has also released three live albums, two compilations, one live DVD, and four EPs. She has lived in Stockholm, Sweden, since 2001, where she writes, records, and runs her own label (Balloon Ranger Recordings).

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Ane Brun – Songs 2013 – 2023 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:17:39 minutes | 820 MB | Genre: Indie Pop, Indie Folk, Art Pop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music AB

It’s ten years since Ane Brun marked her first decade as a recording artist with the release of Songs 2003-13, a career-encapsulating double album. Now, with her international reputation flourishing, Songs 2013-23 allows the distinguished, platinum-selling Norwegian singer songwriter to celebrate her second decade in the business – not to mention her multiple Norwegian and Swedish Grammy awards – while also illustrating the ongoing, fascinating evolution of her singular, compelling talent.

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Ane Brun – Rarities 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 00:46:11 minutes | 448 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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Ane Brun – Portrayals (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:45 minutes | 405 MB | Genre: Folk, Indie Pop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music AB

Two decades into her career, Norway’s Ane Brun has come a long way from busking other people’s songs on the streets of Barcelona. And yet, in some respects, not that far after all. Now a much-loved singer-songwriter in her own right, with ten studio albums and multiple awards to her name, Brun continues to lend her singularly expressive voice and intuitive feel for melody to the fine art of the cover version.

In Brun’s hands, even songs that feel untouchable are brought close and revealed in a new and intimate light. Whether reimagining Beyoncé’s all-conquering ‘Halo’ with a cello quartet arrangement by Linnea Olsson, or bringing a ghostly fragility to Radiohead’s ‘How To Disappear Completely’, she dives in undaunted, seeking out the emotional core of each song and working outwards from there. Portrayals gathers together for the first time twelve of Brun’s most popular covers, plus a previously unreleased version of the Rodgers & Hart standard ‘Blue Moon’. Collectively streamed over 250 million times on Spotify and featured on film soundtracks, adverts, and landmark TV series such as ‘Normal People’ and ‘Peaky Blinders’, Brun’s reworkings move in tender, unforgettable, and often startling ways.

Portrayals is the first in a series of planned 2023 releases to mark the 20th anniversary of her debut album, Spending Time With Morgan. “Covers have been such a big part of my career,” says Brun. “It’s almost a career in itself. It has its own dynamic. I wanted to celebrate that by giving these songs their own space.”

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