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Teitur: The Singer

Singer/songwriter issues otherworldy songs from his own private islandDespite having been recorded on Gotland, the windswept Swedish island that was the final refuge for famously bleak film director Ingmar Bergman, The Singer is not an album carved solely from existential angst. Teitur Lassen shares with the late auteur a gift for penetrating slice-of-life vignettes and meditative landscapes that only reveal their deeper truths after repeated exposure and time in mind. Following Káta Hornið, his third studio album and first totally performed in the language of his native Faroe Islands, Teitur writes songs with clever turns of phrase and quirky...  read more