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Norwegian singer-songwriter
Hanne Hukkelberg debuted with
Little Things (2004), arranged with folk instruments, found objects and
Kare Vestrheim's keyboards.
Boasting a soft voice that glides somewhere in between
Billie Holiday
and
Bjork,
she penned dreamy and melancholic ballads like Searching
and the occasional orchestral dance-pop ballad like Balloon.
Best in this mode is
the smooth, fragile and gliding Words & A Piece Of Paper.
The artistic peak, however, comes with eccentric arrangements that echo popular music of
the past: the folkish chamber lullaby Little Girl, the
flameno-jazz fusion of Cast Anchor, the
country-ish circus skit Displaced,
the accordion-tinged street elegy Boble (possibly the standout).
After she relocated to Berlin, she released
Rykestrasse 68 (2006), a collection of more spartan lieder for bass and
glockenspiel. No electronics, no noise. A bit of Kurt Weill influence (jazz,
cabaret), for example in the
somnolent and sensual lounge ballad Berlin.
The purest moment is the whispered, ethereal, almost unreal, lullaby Obelix.
Pynt slowly disintegrates in a magic soundscape.
Blood From A Stone (Nettwerk, 2009) is a vastly inferior album, whose
existence is justified by only two songs, Bandy Riddles and Midnight Sun Dream.
Featherbrain (2012) contains My Devils.
She continued her mission in glitch-pop on
Trust (2017) and
Birthmark (2019), which contains Don't Dream.
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