Den store sommer Helene Blum & Harald Haugaard Band

• 1 Velkommen her 03:58
• 2 Sander 02:54
• 3 Blandt de skygger der flader 03:56
• 4 Anna Læser 03:37
• 5 Jeg gik mig ud en sommerdag/Sommerdagen 01:50
• 6 Den store sommer 04:27
• 7 The Garden 04:08
• 8 Den elskedes død 04:35
• 9 Elverhøj 03:51
• 10 Mosen 02:09
• 11 Leise Spreche 02:40
• 12 Sov sødt, du lille Sonja 01:54
• Total Runtime 39:59

Info for Den store sommer

This is the second common Helene Blum & Harald Haugaard album after many individual album releases. We have gathered a lot of material over the last three years. Here you will find a small selection of our work. Songs, tunes and stories from Denmark and around. DEN STORE SOMMER is about the summer – both figurative and as metaphor. DEN STORE SOMMER contains a lullaby, a love song in a garden, a medival Danish ballad, a fairytale, an homage to a destigvished winemaker from Pfalz, songs and tunes about hope, faith and light, commissions and an almost forgotten lullaby written by the great Danish composer Carl Nielsen. Much of the material is inspired by a certain period of time in Danish arts history; DET FOLKELIGE GENNEMBRUD (The popular breakthrough) app 1900-1920 with painters, composers, writers and sculptresses such as Carl Nielsen and Anne-Marie Carl Nielsen, Anna & Fritz Syberg, Johannes V. Jensen and many more. Artists who came them self from the common life at the countryside, reflecteded everyday life as well as the big lines in arts and life. Artists for whom it was important that women and men had equal rights, possibilities, fees, etc.

DEN STORE SOMMER also reflects that Blum, Haugaard and their terrific band constantly visit different areas in music playing with symphony orchestras, various soloists, playing concerts on smaller and bigger stages and seeking the boarders from ur alte traditional music to modern experimental sound under the big umbrella we call folk music. It’s recorded in the legendary Medley studios in Copenhagen, and produced together with Søren Mikkelsen and our band. For us the joy and laughter, the dancing goes closely together with the melancholy and darkness. For life and in music. Enjoy.

Christoffer Møller, piano & backing vocal (Track Nr 1)
Esbjörn Hazelius, vocal and cittern (Track Nr 3)
Harald Haugaard, violin
Helene Blum, vocal
Kirstine Elise Pedersen, cello (Tracks Nr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
Mikkel Grue, 6-string guitar & backing vocal (Tracks Nr 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11)
Sebastian Bloch, 6-string guitar (Tracks Nr 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11)
Sune Rahbek, percussion & backing vocal (Tracks Nr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
Tapani Varis, double bass (Tracks Nr 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11)

Helene Blum & Harald Haugaard
belong to Denmark’s best and busiest musicians, since they played more than 500 concerts within the past five years – most of them abroad. Their band consists of violoncellist Kirstine Elise Pedersen, guitar player Mikkel Grue and drummer Sune Rahbek. Together they form all aspects and the dynamic of Blum’s and Haugaard’s repertoire. When they opened the Tönder festival in August 2014 with a great concert, the Danish daily paper „Jyske Vestkysten“ called it a „musical firework“.

Now, Helene Blum will be on tour with her new solo album „Dråber af tid / Droplets of Time“. Many of the songs were written and produced by herself and manifest her personal handwriting and multilateral musicianship. Deeply impressed by the traditional and modern nordic Folk, Helene Blum also flirts with Pop, opens herself up to Jazz and gets inspired by the art of singing/songwriting. She develops her own vision out of the tradition into a contemporary sound.

Four years have passed since her last solo album „Men med åbne øjne“ appeared. Many of the new songs are about time: about lost time but also about passed and future moments. And they are about turning points that are able to change life completely. Furthermore, the songs are about the course of time, since Helene Blum composed love songs but also one song about the Danish-German-War 1864, ”Et øjebliks stilhed”. However, there are also new arranged traditional songs as ”Som stjernerne på himlens blå”. While other songs are inspired by Danish poetry as „En lille Dråbe Blod”. With a text from Sophus Claussen Helene Blum marks a strong and moving start for her album.

Helene Blum’s songs are completed on album and tour through Harald Haugaard, who is one of Denmark's best musicians for more than 15 years. His virtuous way to play the fiddle connects easiness with a richness of sounds. His compositions are contemporary, original and deeply rooted within the Danish tradition.

This album contains no booklet.