Stenenes lys Benedicte Torget, Arve Henriksen, Helge Lien

• 1 Fatum 04:47
• 2 Midt på dagen 03:41
• 3 Stenenes lys 05:40
• 4 Utenfor tiden 03:51
• 5 Mørkt ditt ansikt 05:01
• 6 Fire øyeblikk 05:03
• 7 Svarte tavler 02:04
• 8 Hvis noen kan synge i denne kveld 05:16
• 9 August 04:26
• 10 De hemmelige sekundene 03:15
• 11 Grunnfjell 03:20
• Total Runtime 46:24

Info for Stenenes lys

A new trio comes together with the album ‘STENENES LYS’ (The Light of Stones). Benedicte Torget, Arve Henriksen and Helge Lien create a unique musical landscape around the lyrics of Astrid Tollefsen and Benedicte Torget's songs. With lyrical virtuosity, they create shifting musical spaces. The ensemble presents a selection of Astrid Tollefsen's poems, and Benedicte Torget's exceptionally precise and moving vocals bring the lyrics to life. The internationally renowned musicians open up and expand the music. Singer and composer Benedicte Torget has previously interpreted poetry with the award-winning and critically acclaimed album ‘Karin Boye songs’.

Astrid Tollefsen (1897–1973) made her debut with the poetry collection Portrett i speil (Portrait in the Mirror) in 1947. Together with Gunvor Hofmo and Astrid Hjertenæs Andersen, she became a prominent voice in post-war modernist poetry in Norway. She is less well known today, but this project provides an opportunity to rediscover this original voice. Astrid Tollefsen has a unique perspective on everything that moves in nature. She observes the swallow on the wire, she sees the light in a stone, and writes beautiful and disturbing love poems.

Benedicte Torget, vocals, composition
Arve Henriksen, trumpet, electronics
Helge Lien, piano
Geir Østensjø, sound

Benedicte Torget
is a critically acclaimed singer and songwriter, who has been performing since the age of six, on radio and TV, and in concert halls and theatres. Educated at the Music Conservatory in Oslo and the University of Oslo, she has studied styles of improvisation in seventeenth-century music, folk music and jazz. She has collaborated with a number of acknowledged musicians in Norway and abroad. The album “After a Day of Rain” was her first recording of her own songs. In 2014 she and Øystein Sevåg released the album “Karin Boye Songs” for which they won the NOPA Music Prize Reward 2014. Benedicte Torget released the album “Like a Seed Let it Fall" in 2016. Her latest album "7 dialogues" was released autumn 2020 as she toured with her ensemble Benedicte Torget Ensemble. ​

Benedicte has worked with breathing meditation according to Shunryu Suzuki's method for over 25 years. Her experiences from 7 years in full psychoanalysis learning about the relationship between body, voice and a language beyond our rational consciousness, form the basis for the material in her projects. "You don't find your voice just once. You find your voice again and again. The world changes, everything around us and inside us changes. The creative voice arises in that flow", says Benedicte Torget.

Benedicte Torget established ther own record label "Present Recordings" in 2008. In 20213 and 2023 she received three year sWorking Grant from Arts Council Norway. Benedicte Torget has also received several grants both as a composer and as a singer from The Norwegian Composers’ fund, The Lyric Writers Fund, Norwegian Fund for Performing Artists among others.

This album contains no booklet.