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Kristjana & Agnar: Me For You (Eg Um Thig)
by Michael P. Gladstone
The Icelandic duo of singer Kristjana Stefansdottir and pianist Agnar Mar Magnusson has been collaborating on ways to develop new material for jazz vocals. Their specialty is retrieving late-20th Century pop songs that might have originally been lost" through the technology of the day (eg. synthesizers, drum machines, electronics) and transfer them into a jazz setting. In 2005, they recorded this album in Brooklyn with two Americans, bassist Drew Gress and drummer John Hollenbeck. To my ears, the combination is ...
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