Drifting like a bird

Released: 2015
Grappa Musikkforlag
HCD7292

Annbjørg Lien – vocal, choir, Hardanger fiddle, nyckelharpa.
Roger Tallroth – 12-string guitar, bowed guitar, choir, irish bouzouki, tenor guitar, terz guitar, ukulele.
Anders Løfberg – cello, bass, choir.
Tori Wrånes – vocal, accordion, choir, ship`s bell.
Cathy Jordan – bodhran, bones, choir, vocal.
Bjørn Ole Rasch – choir, Hammond B3, harmonium, kalimba, mellotron.
Rune Arnesen – choir, drums, perc.

All music and lyrics by Annbjørg Lien,
except lyrics to “Gale og normale” by Niels Chr. Geelmuyden.
Children`s rhyme on “Elle Melle” is traditional.

Recorded at Kongshavn Studios, september 2014 by Roald Råsberg.
Mixed at Kongshavn Studios, February 2015.
Mastered by Chris Sansom at Propeller Mastering.
Produced by Bjørn Ole Rasch.

New brilliant commission work from Annbjørg!

People have always felt the need to go to sea, to be on their way somewhere, and to let the power of the sea float them towards familiar landscapes. Melodies and stories come with us on board. Some people never come home. The fire burns for them on land. Peace is found on the pebbled beach.

“Drifting like a bird” is a CD version of a commissioned work I composed for the North Sea Festival in Farsund in 2013, about life at sea and on land around the North Sea Basin. I am grateful to those of you who have shared your personal sailing stories with me in the late hours of the night – about openness, friendship, madness, longing and love.

- Annbjørg