Norwegian singer Ane Brun is in typically wide-ranging and intriguing form on her sixth studio album. From the strong independent woman of ‘You Lit My Fire’ to the fragility of ‘Black Notebook’, the sparse ‘Still Waters’ to the incongruous Indian…
Ane Brun wrote ‘Daring To Love’, included on her recent Rarities collection, for the upcoming film A Thousand Times Goodnight – winner of the Special Grand Prix at the Montreal Film Festival – which will be released in 2014. And…
Over the last ten years, Ane Brun’s career has taken the ‘slow burn’ route, with seven studio albums released independently on her own label, Balloon Ranger Recordings. This patience has paid off, resulting in a solid fan base of devoted…
Over the course of ten years, Norway native and Swedish resident, Ane Brun, has steadily built an impressive musical career. The experimental, theatrical artist has been at the forefront of the recent surge of Scandi folk artists to make serious…
Ane Brun will next week release her career retrospective Songs 2003-2013 and is marking the occasion with a re-recording of ‘This Voice’, which originally appeared on her 2005 record A Temporary Dive. The once gentle song has been reimagined as…
Roll up! Roll up! For London’s Scala is decked out like a tawdry tart, complete with multi-coloured bunting, lanterns, balloons and a ‘Gabberdashery’ of clothes, cake and curios. There’s even a town mayor and vicar to preside over a raffle,…
Ane Brun’s fourth studio album It All Starts With One was released earlier this month to widespread acclaim and praise; a gloriously emotive and compelling affair that ensures her talents as a musician will be further known upon these shores.…
It’s a rainy Tuesday night in Manchester, and Oxford Road is quieter than usual. Perhaps this is because everyone is in the Deaf Institute, falling a little bit in love with Ane Brun. Weaving through the captivated crowd en route…
Despite putting out five studio albums, working with the likes of Peter Gabriel and Ron Sexsmith and receiving two Norwegian Grammys, Ane Brun (real name Ane Brunvoll) has flown under the UK radar for some time. This might all be…
A Snowy Owl on Brian’s roost recently complained that she only listened to music made by boys. And as much as Brian – and the rest of us at FFS for that matter – love our bearded folkies, there’s a-whole-nother…