I just encountered Ane's music for the first time yesterday (1 Feb 2019) and already I have listened to the songs "All We Want Is Love" and "Signing Off", which she very thankfully performs here, about 200 times each, over and over and over. I have filled my little apartment with her beautiful words and her singularly beautiful voice. They are such achingly lovely songs. Tusen takk, Ane.
I feel privileged to be alive at the same time this beautiful artist is on planet to see her perform is a truly uplifting experience bless you lovely Ane Brun
It doesn't take any strength. It's a disease. You get it, and then you either recover or die. We personalize it with words like, "fight" to provide the comforting illusion of control or responsibility or sovereignty. And although we all agree it's a nice thing to say, you should never actually believe the nonsense we peddle
cocteautwinned I have a neuromuscular degenerative disorder that causes the myelin sheathing of my nerves to erode and my peripheral muscles to atrophy. I live in a constant state of often intense pain and go days without sleep for it. I do a great many things I am proud of. I am a good husband and I try to be thoughtful and kind. I go to university with the intention of meaningfully contributing to the society that has provided me with such opportunity. But I am not brave or strong or admirable for having a shitty disease. I am not spectacular or heroic for not being shitty because I have a shitty disease. And I very specifically don't fight anything. I just suffer and try to live on. It's not pleasant and certainly lacks the soft tone of the patronizing language of 'fighting the pain', but it's also true. Some things are just awful and beyond our control
Well. If thats your take on it, to bad. But sometimes in life, you really have to fight to get forward, to say something else is pretty stupid. That we all just needs to accept all the shit in the world, and carry on hoping for the best is pretty a poor lifechoice i think. (coming from someone who fought for my life against a disease for a lot of years and (at least temporarily) won..)
Nicolai Lyche I'm not advocating inaction and indifference. If something can be meaningfully changed for the better, then of course we ought to do something. It is specifically when we can not affect a thing that trying to contrive the illusion of control or self-determination becomes insultingly desperate. Cancer is not a villain sitting in a lair, twisting its moustache. It is the corrupted mutation of a cell, inadvertently mass producing its useless variation throughout our body. It is a biological glitch. You could argue that doctors and modern medicine are fighting it, but the victims sure as fuck aren't. Either the cancer will go into remission, and the person is temporarily spared or the cancer will metastasize and kill the person. But at no point in this shitty circumstance did a person grit their teeth and bear down their divine fuckin willpower to thwart that troublesome cancer. Stephan Hawking got a raw deal and has a shit body with a shit disease. However, rather than affect the pretense that he's fighting the disease, he instead focused on the world in his mind and developed one of the most fascinating imaginations of our generation. His mind doesn't make his disease less real, only less impacting. Im saying that it is lazy, insulting, and almost childish to pretend we stand as masters of our fate against the fickle whims of chance in all things. Some things, like CMT, or ALS, or cancer are just awful. I change the things I can, like being good to people I love, and accept the things I can't, like becoming riddled with a nasty little bastard of an ailment.
The commentary by NPR says she's taking stock of her life and these songs are the result.. makes sense to me that when reflecting on perhaps the end of many of the most important parts of life, she ends up with just her voice & a piano
For me, signing off is a deactivate facebook theme tune. A simple guide to social media in 2019. All the passion and intensity of the artist. Bravo Ane.
Breathtaking...I'm so glad that I found her music. Her voice, the piano and guitar playing, the lyrics - when I listen to Ane Brun it is like time stops and an atmosphere occurs, where I feel deeply understood, seen and hugged. :-) I'm looking forward to see her live in November for the first time!!
Same! Super happy to have finally discovered her! And for that I must thank the girl on the LP cover in front of which Ane is playing her guitar here =)
@@HilmarSchacht-zm8kg Piano virtuosos play the piano. That has nothing much to do with recording a piano. I do however have a Steinway M that I tune, maintain, play and record. I don't quite see why you're snottily defending the anonymous technician at NPR who set this up. It's not a criticism of Brun.
