Frida Hyvönen
Country of origin:
Sweden
Type of music generally:
Beautiful and fierce, pop-influenced evocative/eclectic music
Status:
Most recent release, Frida Hyvönen Gives You: Music From The Dance Performance 'Pudel' (2007); debut release, Until Death Comes (2005)
See also:
Frida Hyvönen's site
Comparisons:
Musically like Regina Spektor; piano style like Pepper Acton; vocally a bit like Laura Veirs
Covers/own material:
Own
General comments:
She's brilliant. (stjarnell@yahoo.com)Frida Hyvönen sings like an angel. (christina_skov@hotmail.com)
Recommended first album:
Until Death Comes
Recordings:
- Until Death Comes (2005)
- Frida Hyvönen Gives You: Music From The Dance Performance 'Pudel' (2007)
Until Death Comes
Release info:
EU: 2005—Licking Fingers—LF018
U.S.: 2006—Secretly Canadian—SC144
Australia: 2007—Chapter Music
Availability:
Wide
Ecto priority:
Highly recommended
Group members:
Frida Hyvönen—vocals, pianos, organs, handclaps and belltree
Guest artists:
Ellekari Larsson (The Tiny)—backing vocals
Jon Bergström—drums, handclaps, tambourine, lap-steel guitar
Mattias Areskog—bass
Daniel Johansson—trumpet
Tomas Hallonsten—flügelhorn
Jari Haapalainen—vibraphone, tambourine, glockenspiel
Produced by:
Frida Hyvönen and Jari Haapalainen
Comments:
Frida Hyvönen's debut album is at once visceral and simple. She tells tales of complex relationships and shocking frankness in a voice at once experienced and naïve. She mostly just uses her piano but the brief pop nugget "Come Another Night" is a pleasant diversion. The press made comparisons with Laura Nyro, and while that may be premature, this was a spectacular start for a gifted singer. (stjarnell@yahoo.com)I love this album but don't really know how to describe it. She taps into emotions not implicitly but suggestively through storytelling, but lyrically it's a bit of work, like decoding someone's diary. Musically, her piano accompaniment consists of choppy chords rather than melodic lines. I find it strikingly different, like someone banging out their personal stories in a Tin Pan Alley bar. Maybe this doesn't sound like much of a recommendation. But it is. I find this album and this artist to be distinctive and refreshing, and I look forward to hearing what she does next. (JoAnn Whetsell)
Thanks to JoAnn Whetsell for work on this entry.
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