"As a composer, lyricist & vocalist we pretty much have to acknowledge that Sophie is a genuine triple threat."
- Slim & Michael Coyle, Cadence Magazine, New York , USA
"Sophie Dunér is a unique artst, a profoundly individual composer and a stunning singer."
- Michael Haas, award winning producer of Sophie´s new album
In the end of May, Sophie will be having her art photographed in her home. This will serve for the making of the art DVD/book by art gallerist Christer Botéus, featuring 13 other European visual artists. Sophie´s CD “The City of My Soul” will as well be the official music for this dvd.
“A singer of astonishing range and technique but just as important, she’s a composer and a creative musician with unusual ideas. Dunér is one of the most interesting singers I’ve heard recently.”
- Robert Iannapollo, Cadence Magazine, N.Y, USA.
Cadence Magazine p.1
Cadence Magazine p.2
2012-05-01
Art & Music DVD/Book!
Coming up next: Sophie´s latest release “The City of My Soul” & The Artwork by Sophie will be featured in the new DVD/book by art gallerist Christer Botéus together with 13 other European visual artists!
See beginning of the art book here! Collaborating photographer Pera Björstad has made a blogg from some of the featured visual artists in Portugal.
2012-04-02
Remembering Buenos Aires in September……..
Remembering Buenos Aires in September….
Check out photographer Petra Björstad´s blogg from Sophie´s tour last year.
2012-03-27
Sophie on “Monday Afternoon Classics with Gandalf” / WJFF Radio / N.Y,USA
For those of you who missed November 7th´s two hour long radio show “Monday Afternoon Classics with Gandalf / WJFF Radio (N.Y, USA) may now listen to the podcast below, divided into 7 tracks:
“A true renaissance woman …..Sophie´s singing is really post-modern jazz style, while the instrumental accompaniment is post-modern classical.” – Robert “Gandalf” Rosengard.
Silent Revolution from The City of My Soul – Now on Youtube!
2012-01-07
Another great review………
Vittorio Lo Conte of Music Zoom has written a fantastic review of The City of My Soul…..check it out here
” Brilliant and innovative…….Sophie Dunér has achieved something monumental.” – Vittorio Lo Conte
A project of this magnitude has something brilliant and innovative that you are unable to digest at once. At the second hearing the fog thins out, you know better and we realize that the singer Sophie Dunér has achieved something monumental. Not only her, because it is clear that she does not sing alone. There is a string quartet, The Callino Quartet, to act as accompaniment. And then we have to add Michael Haas, usually manufacturer of classical music, and even Neil Hutchinson, the sound engineer who has taken great ideas proposals.
All together they have contributed to this remarkable album where the songs of Dunér with two well-known jazz standards (Caravan and Well You Needn´t) are rendered with an originality of purpose rare to find. The City of My Soul of Sophie Dunér is populated by restless characters, protagonists of the stories a little crooked, sung in a way that has little to intended to do with jazz in the traditional way, or even with the classical music. What emerges is its/her strong personality, interaction with the string quartet, the desire to push the music towards new situations. The arrangements of the Swedish vocalist are quite challenging for the string quartet, and what emerges is a community of casual intent, the symbiosis and the perfect artistic achievement. The vocalizations of unorthodox texts, the rigor of the arches, the ability have a common vision to escape the sounds of the majority of colleagues: these are the ingredients of a disc that does not leave the listener indifferent. The merit also goes to the string quartet with which it interacts: Sarah Sexton violin, Fenella Humphreyes violin, viola Rebecca Jones, Sarah McMahon Cello.
2012-01-06
Happy 2012!
2011 has been truly good to me with great success for my new CD project “The City of My Soul” together with the brilliant string quartet The Callino Quartet. As a resumé of 2011, read CD Liner notes by the producer here.
Since the CD release at Charlie Wright´s International in London, The City of My Soul has already received 5 stars in Svenska Dagbladet, its on the “Best of the year” list in Rootsy.nu, among the “Gems of the year” in P2 Live Jazz Radio, a promotional three week tour to Buenos Aires, Argentina, a two hour New York radio show and more fantastic reviews in Touching Extremes, All About Jazz Italia & Zoom Music! Now looking forward to 2012!
2012-01-03
THE CITY OF MY SOUL AMONG THE GEMS OF THE YEAR IN P2 LIVE JAZZ
Music from the CD “The City of My Soul” is among the “Gems of the year” in the last 2011 emission of P2 Live Jazz ( Swedish National Radio ):
Sophie on “Monday Afternoon Classics with Gandalf” / WJFF Radio / N.Y, USA
Coming up on November 7 at 12pm – 2pm (East Coast US time) : Sophie will be featured & interviewed in the two hour long radio program “Monday Afternoon Classics with Gandalf / WJFF Radio / N.Y, USA. Not to be missed! Listen online in the upper right hand corner of WJFF website.
“……Sophie´s singing is really post-modern jazz style, while the instrumental accompaniment is post-modern classical.” – Robert “Gandalf” Rosengard.
