Thursday, July 19, 2012

Inge Andersen -Fallen Angel (Meyer Records 2012)


In 2011, Inge recorded her debut album “Fallen Angel" in Italy. The album is produced for MEYER RECORDS by Eric Andersen, together with the Italian violinist, composer and song poet Michele Gazich. Eric, Inge and Michele Gazich had previously collaborated on Eric Andersen’s live album and they still perform together regularly.
Besides her own songs, Inge Andersen includes a beautiful version of Eric Andersen’s “Round the Bend“ and a haunting version of “The Prodigal Son”. This last song, performed 60 years earlier by Hank Williams, features Norwegian Hardanger fiddle player Hallvard Bjørgum and Garth Hudson from The Band on keyboard, saxophone and accordeon.
The album consists of ten melodic songs with strong lyrics. As sound engineer Paolo Costola remarked, – the lyrics cut you like a knife, but the songs are so beautiful that you bleed and say thank you.