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Beloveds is a cabaret, a burial ground, a circus, a lullaby.

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.

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


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Beloveds: Så tar natten dig åter

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


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 ...

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”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/

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