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Channa Riedel

Channa Riedel is a writer, poet and musician. She recently graduated from the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg and the debut album of her band Beloveds was released in 2019. This year she will begin a master’s in Literary Composition at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, and is currently working on her first collection of poems.

Beloveds is an ensemble that started in 2016 In Gothenburg, Sweden. Composer and singer Channa Riedel uses poetry in order to create music that is intimate, rugged and beautiful. They find inspiration from music such as Liberation Music Orchestra, Victor Jara, Hanns Eisler as well as Swedish and Jewish folk songs. Lyrics are by Palestinian, Swedish, American and Russian poets such as Vladimir Mayakovsky, Juliana Spahr, Stig Dagerman and Channa Riedel.

In October 2019 debut album "Så tar natten dig åter" was released on Swedish indie label Abrovinsch Records. The music is a bittersweet mixture of jazz, folksongs, cabaret and progg (Swedish left-wing and anti- commercial musical movement from the 60s and 70s).

"Så tar natten dig åter" deals with themes such as flight, political struggle, exile and love.

Channa Riedel, voc., comp. Anton Jonsson, drums Björn Petersson, bass Joel Haag, guitar Gustav Davidsson, trombone Pelle Westlin, tenor saxophone & clarinet Karl Magnús Andersson, piano

Awards

Part of "Nordic Showcase" at Oslo Jazz Festval 2017.

Beloveds: Så tar natten dig åter

Read "Så tar natten dig åter" reviewed by Samuel Stroup

by Samuel Stroup
June 26, 2020

Så tar natten dig åter, the debut album by Swedish septet Beloveds is at once assertive and tender. The music—jazz with roots in European folk music and with a keen focus on improvisation—is composed and set to lyrics by Beloveds' singer and leader Channa Riedel. Riedel, a musician-poet, penned some of the lyrics herself, while others are adapted from the work of writers and musicians like Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio, Vladimir Mayakovskij, Karin Boye, and Cornelis Vreeswijk. Despite the disparity of ...

"Wild melodic excursions, quick scene changes in tone, and harmonies that spring up like the mighty beating of wings as birds rise in flight make this one of the more eccentric, and fun, recordings of 2019."

Dave Sumner, Bird Is the Worm, https://www.birdistheworm.com/best-of-2019-34-beloveds-sa-tar-natten-dig-ater/