Teresa Bergman - 33, Single And Broke (CD)

Release Date: 10/07/22

Teresa Bergman, exceptional voice, guitarist and genre shifter, returns with her third studio album: '33, Single & Broke'.

Teresa Bergman, exceptional voice, guitarist and genre shifter, returns with her third studio album: '33, Single & Broke' - a title that is a statement, self-confession and wink at the same time. In principle, everything that the native New Zealander and Berliner-by-choice stands for with her music.

'33, Single & Broke' is an exciting album that can be celebrated as a jazzy folk-pop inferno, but which also demands something from you as poetic discourse-pop. On the record, Bergman deals with being a woman in her mid-30s in an unfiltered way: She is honest, retains her ironic humour in all of this and approaches the topics in a very elegant and differentiated way. She raises her voice for what is close to her heart. Her voice is also her instrument. And how she is able to use it in her songs; how she experiments with it, derails it, explores boundaries with apparent ease and thereby transports deepest feelings in a melodious way.

The songs on the record, which were fittingly recorded at the beginning of the second lockdown in the studios of the band 'Isolation Berlin', are infused with earthy folk elements, the warmth of the acoustic guitar and organic sounds.
The whole album, but especially songs like 'Aaron', 'Checkout Tears' or 'Old Timer' make you think of old heroes of the 60s and 70s. At the same time, the pieces are cleverly pitched through bold arrangements, jazzy harmonies, the clever use of choirs, as well as different vocal styles ranging from aria-like elegies to soulful simplicity. The very first track 'Swallow' greets you with poetic chanson, offbeat rhythms, classical-inspired piano arpeggios and vocals that soar to infinite heights like the swallows that inspired this song.

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