The 36-year-old jazz singer Sidsel Storm is ready with his 5th release in his own name. She has been very successful on stages in both Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Germany and Scandinavia and has taken the audience as well as reviewers by storm with her warm personal voice and her unique presence. Now she is ready with new release and concerts in 2019/20. Sidsel Storm has previously made her marks at home and received prestigious awards such as DPA’s jazz composer award (2008) and a Danish Music Award for “The bestVocal Jazz Release” (2009). In addition, she has gained international recognition with tens of thousands of sold CDs in, Asia and Germany among other things. AWAKE is recorded in The Village Studio in Copenhagen and in Sidsel’s own small studio in Drag?r. The record is mixed and mastered in Nilento Studio, Gothenburg (SE). AWAKE contains songs by Sidsel and other together with the Swedish jazz pianist Magnus Hjorth opens up for a new and exciting compositional collaboration. Sidsel and her husband, pianist and producer Peter Storm Otto, have together written the title composition “AWAKE”. A concept they both recognize after the last couple of years with 3 young children. The songs on AWAKE touch on topics such as presence, love, grief, longing, bad habits and gratitude. In addition to her own compositions, Sidsel also interprets some old standards that are treated with a great deal of respect and love. Sidsel Storm has gathered her regular live team on this record and has also invited a stringtrio on the album. Sidsel feels it is natural to involve the band musicians in both the composition work and the organizer work, as this is often a natural process in the rehearsal room and strengthens the band as a whole and thus the overall expression.
