| CD REVIEW Teitur |
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Band : Teitur “What kind of tomfoolery is this?” I thought, as I again checked the “info page” (only info about the tracks included in the album plus release info) we got with the download promo copy of this Faroer Island native artist (currently resides in London, if I got my info correct)! I mean, would you believe it says “Rock/Pop” under “genre”? Darn far removed from any Rock at all, that which we hear in the 13 tracks on this album, but then the songs are not presented in their original form here, “A Night At The Opera” being a live recording brought with the aid of Classical instruments only (cello, string bass, some oboe, classical guitar, and even some occasional drums…I might be missing something, you know…oh, like the nice occasional female backing singers in a couple of a capella and near a capella songs). No info available about the artist or album at the label’s website, the distributor’s website, or even the artist’s own website (teitur.com is under construction). The man’s MySpace page doesn’t even mention this release. Luckily there’s a page on Wikipedia, with at least some info on the artist, and the fact that he’s indeed active in the territories of Pop, Folk, and Rock on his studio albums (4 to date: 2003’s Poetry & Aeroplanes, 2006’s Stay Under The Stars, 2007’s Káta Hornio – lyrics completely in Faroé - , and 2008’s The Singer…UK residents may come across an album titled All My Mistakes, released in 2009, but that’s really a compilation of tracks off Teitur’s last three albums (oh, Teitur is the artist’s first name, the family name is Lassen), which were never before released in the UK). He has sóme popularity, having contributed to the soundtracks of no less than 4 movies, been nominated for the 2003 (or was it 2004?) Shortlist Music Prize, and having won the “Best Male Solo Artist” award at the Danish Music Awards in 2007. As far as an easy-listening goes, the album is good enough (except for a song somewhere at the beginning of the album and one towards the end, where all instruments join in for a somewhat more excited gathering, the mood on the almost 67-minute album is actually rather laid-back, almost sedate…but with a strange beuaty to it for those music lovers who can appreciate it) and would indeed do me good to listen to some time in the future. But seen the nature of this website, I doubt whether many readers would go for something like this! Oh, check out some music at last.fm/music/teitur in stead of myspace.com/teitur, because I have no idea how one can even gét to hear some music in the latter! Ah, as for my personal appreciation…let’s not rate this one, shall we? Tony. |