I have opened a web-shop

Welcome to my web site www.evarune.se where you can order your copy of my brand new CD Vida.

I'm deeply grateful for the big interest I've seen so far. Thank you all who has bought the cd and thank you for beautiful words about what you feel about my music :-)

164 SEK including shipping within Sweden.
Shipping abroad depends on where you are.

12 newly composed songs with my own lyrics.

Just a coincident, or not?
On the same day of the release of Vida I got a letter from SA, with Nelson Mandela stamp and all. My pen pal Paul Hanmer is one of the long time friends who have inspired me to step up and compose and record, release my own album. During many years we have send music and letters to each other, toured and made concerts in both South Africa and Sweden, composed and recorded together.

Home stage in the middle of the hoods.

In just two weeks I will launch my new CD "Vida".

The place this will happen is a great gift itself, I'm getting the sense it's now becoming my home.
A second home or a home stage.
A place where it's easy to feel at home.
Hjällbo church is in the center of the hoods.
A church right in the middle of the street life, at the local square.

This fine space helps us all open to inner space.
The name "Vida" have a connection to the swedish word for space: vidder.

Soon time to let the boat set sail.

Eva

Norway, August 2014. Irmelin tour.

Welcome 2015 with all your adventures in music

A new year has just begun.
First of all I want to thank you all my readers, you who visit my blog.
I truly wish you a beautiful year and lets all pull our forces together for
a year of more tolerance and love in the world.
Music, dance and story telling makes the world go around.
I know so many beautiful initiatives, activists,
thinkers and peace makers all around the globe
to make me want to contribute also what I can bring on the train.

One thing is to celebrate truly who we are and
be daring in creativity.
I've decided to fully live my dream of releasing
a solo album.

It's getting closer and closer,
the launch of my new cd, Vida.
February 12 in Göteborg,
please come to celebrate with me in Hjällbo church.


I just heard some music on the radio that makes me so happy.
For the first time to me, I found this gem of new jazz, Chlopy Kontra Basia.
The pure happiness of language, without knowing the meaning of the lyrics,
I just love the sounds.




Chlopcy Kontra Basia - Oj Tak


Got to keep on working now, the day is bright and  I have lots to plan and organize. 
Final steps of the cover and textbook of my CD. 

Eva

Voicing - meeting - sharing - circle Folk Voice Tradition 2014

Giving and taking in its most beautiful form. Mutual inspiration!

Folk Voice Tradition 2014

On the last day of our conference we did reflections and circle talking about how to proceed. How can we build stronger circles and voice the tacit knowledge we share? Very empowering! Wordsmith and painting artist Malin Sverige showed us beautiful paintings she created in our conference, her reflection. When her pictures was displayed the whole room started to sing in a collective improvisation.

I wonder how this could be possible in any other conference?

The past weekend I spend time in Stockholm with an amazing gathering of the tribe of folk singers. I'm been awestruck by the power and creativity, filled with new inspiration.

Reunion of friends I've known since many years. Friends from my time as student at KMH (Royal College of Music) Friends from the first ever, the glorious, the turning point: Ethno -90.
Irmelin songsisters, great to be here all the three of us!

And happy to make new friends!

We had to use english as the official language since we speake so many languages in this group and not all of us share the same language root. Finnish, Latvian, Estonian and Scandinavian languages.

I have to say that listening to the songs I couldn't follow the lyrics was maybe the most memorable for me in the concerts. Music has the power to take a grip even if there's no common language. Music is the common language and it speaks clearly about what it is to be a human.

A warm big THANK YOU to Susanne Rosenberg and the crew for empowering the diverse family of singers, storytellers, artists, holistic improvisators.

Eva

Sitting on the train up to Stockholm, enjoying the November peace. Working on the order of songs for my new album.

KMH, The Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Old meets new.

Singers from Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in a song of lamentation.

Singers from Latvia, amazing vocal traditions!

Going in tomorrow. Homebound.

Courage,
dear heart.

C. S. Lewis

Tomorrow Wednesday is day one for us recording.
Pictures from last time in the same studio, when Irmelin recorded North Sea Stories.
At that time also with sound engineer Petter Ericsson.
Now with Mattias Pèrez on guitars, and Anders Jormin on double base. My heart is filled with joy to make music with them.

Studio time is a little bit like leaving the rest of the world for a while.
I got this feeling that it will be like coming home.
My home lands, the music.
My refuge.
I don't say it's without struggles.
It's never easy to stand there with your heart in your hand.

"You find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path."

Juliet Marillier, Daughter of the Forest.

Petter Ericsson at Studio Epidemin, Göteborg.

Eva

Open the door to the new. Open the window to the soul.

To do list

* Play with my dog
* Bring the yogi-tea
* Give all I have
* Forget perfection
* Grow wings
* Put flowers in my hair
* Embrace the unknown
* Enjoy the grey zones


It's not the end, it's just a change.

you need
chaos
in your soul
to give birth to
a dancing
star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wednesday this week is first day in Studio Epidemin. Recording with Mattias Pèrez and Anders Jormin.
Tonight I will meet Anders shortly for an additional rehearsing. To try out some new ideas for one of the songs.

Small adjustments happen still within the lyrics.
Improvisation (winging the songs) happen more and more,
like young birds ready to fly.
To leave the nest.

Eva

Petrichor - the scent of rain

My daily joy.

My daily challenge.

Creating my own music.

So this is the first announcement, I will record a solo album by the end of October this year.

And it's the first album on my own label.

After a long row of amazing collaborations I have decided to do something like this. Channel all the lyrics and melodies that I have made myself.

When I look at all the twelve songs I have choosen for this album, I notice there's rain in several of them.

Rain as the sign of freedom, water of life, of relief.

And there's a lot more coming too. I go to my roots, I have a lot of inspiration from my mountains where i grew up. It's also about dance.

I will let you know more as the work proceeds.
You are most welcome to  check my blog for more updates around this new baby of mine.

Eva

Summer workshop week with Myst

Music is in the air.
Myst have had a week together in Göteborg. Long time no see, but now we've had full days of digging into our music again.

God is in the small details.....

Three days rehearsals and two days recording. One new song has seen the light, Ahmad wrote the piece and Eva added some lyrics. It's called "A Song I Wrote For You".

Seven songs from our repertoir last year has been recorded for demo, that makes eight songs all in all this week.
Here's some pics from work in the studio:

Martin and his new tattoo.

Youssef Hbeisch, percussion.

Ahmad Al Khatib, oud.

Martin Holmlund, double bas. Sara Nilsson, violin.

Eva Rune, vocals.

Folkvocal powerhouse

This is the power of doing things together.
Creativity in a circle of friends and collegues at its best.
Today is the day we gave ourselves deadline to deliver the songs. Happy birthday our baby!

It's been intensifying work to refine and ellaborate our song-ideas. Let each song grow into its shape and personality. As soon as I open my computer to work with recording my stuff I can see the activity is stirring in our dropbox. New files adding, other filer updating.

We've choosen some photos to add to the full picture of what we want to say with our songs. Maria has put it all together in a document with songs, music & lyrics, texts on scenic matters and small choreography things, photos and other stuff for inspiration. It all looks so exciting now when the full picture takes form into reality.

Soon and very soon it's time to share our work in the full ensemble.
May the songs bloom in your hands, dear fellow singers, song sisters, songstresses of the north, amazing ladies! Maria Misgeld, Susanne Rosenberg, Karin Ericsson Back, Lisa lestander, Maja Ericsson, Sofia Sandén, Marie Axelsson and me. See you soon!
Concert will be on 18th of June in Stockholm.

Eva

Folkvocal day 3 in Stockholm

Today is the World Day of Voice!
What can be a better idea to celebrate than to spend a full day with these powerful and creative song sisters? A capella at it's best.

Amazing how much flow we've had the two past days. The music is coming together beautifully. We have come to the point of putting the whole set together. There are already clear links between some songs, patterns that will go in and out of each other. Yet we have to decide who will sing what, a sort of casting for the different roles.
We are four composers in this and it's definitely four unique voices with so much personality. We are also united by the roots of our vocal tradition.

Can't wait to meet with the four other singers who will together with us make the full ensemble.

Susanne Rosenberg
Maria Misgeld
Ulrika Bodén
Eva Rune
Lisa Laestander
Karin Ericsson Back
Maja Eriksson
Sofia Sandén

Mark the day in your calendars. Please come and share this unique event with us when we perform the piece in Stockholm on the 18th of June.

In the studio composing music.

Work in progress with Folkvocal

Sunny beautiful Stockholm!
I wake up this morning and find myself in one of the most beautiful cities in the world - Stockholm.

The four of us composers for project Folkvocal are now stepping up to the next level. Susanne Rosenberg, Maria Misgeld, Ulrika Bodén and myself. Refine and pull the forces together. Three days of intense work and hopefully we have a unique, extraordinary, crazy, beautiful score ready on wednesday.



I have a small story that stuck in my mind.
The other day I was walking in my neightborhood and saw a man somewhere in the age of 50 +. A little bit rough looking, quite big, someone that might make other people afraid just at sight. He was stopping and looking beside the road. Then he took his camera and made photos of the white spring flowers that are growing abundantly right now.

It's a great challenge and art to never judge people by their looks. I try to work on that every day.

Between singing and spoken word

Our days of work is just over.
Susanne, Maria, Ulrika and me singing all day long. Preparing for next step of contemporary composing within the folk music context.

Increadible how the paradox of time is confusing my mind. Time went so quickly. At the same time it feels like I've been there in the sweet little village of Noraström for a long time. We manage to do so much together with the music.

Ideas we brought into our project has now been tried out in reality. Many improvisation structures has been very fruitful. We go back home now to compleete the music for the larger ensemble. We'll be 8 folk singer performing this!

Below Susanne and Ulrika are singing  instantly from a book of hilarious written text, deep and poetic. It requires long experience to do it in two part singing. We all took turns doing improvisations, and sometimes all four at the same time.

Eva

Irmelin creative days

Spider web with water drops.

Autumn beauty.

In the material world we are here.
But where we are in the wholeness, it's more difficult to tell.

This and next week Irmelin is working on new songs. Music and poetry by us.

Sometimes even collectively made by the three of us in Irmelin.

Among other things that inspire me is simplicity. That a painter can paint just a few lines and create art with simplicity. I'm not there yet. But it makes me curious, and it lights my fire.



Time to prepare for tomorrow and get some rest.
Eva

Paul Hanmer and Trackways of the wind

In english, see below.
Idag har jag tagit fram ett stort kuvert ur bokhyllan. De innehåller partitur till ett nyskrivet verk, Trackways of the wind. Text av den samiske multikonstnären Nils Aslak Valkeapää, 1943-2001. Musiken är skriven av min gode vän Paul Hanmer, pianist och kompositör i Johannesburg, Sydafrika. Han påbörjade Trackways of the wind hösten 2007 när han var stipendiat i Visby på International Centre for Composers.
Sättningen är rätt unik. Det blir en utmaning att få fram så många klarinettister!
Förutom mig på sång och Jonas Sjöblom på slagverk är det
3 klarinetter
tenorklarinett
basklarinett
kontrabasklarinett
harpa
stråkkvartett
kontrabas
pukor

Nu börjar en stor utmaning, att försöka hitta ett forum att få detta uruppfört i. Är det någon som har idéer? Alla tips och all hjälp tas tacksamt emot. Nästa år på Göteborg Art Sounds festival kanske? www.gas-festival.com

Paul Hanmer är som sagt upphovsmannen bakom musiken. Hans partitur är helt handskrivna med mycket vacker handstil. Jag har pärmar fulla hemma med hans långa handskrivna brev där vi under årens lopp har diskuterat musik och livet som musiker i två olika länder. Det är en mycket viktig vänskap fastän det är så långt emellan där vi bor.

Nils-Aslak Valkeapää är en av de poeter och multikonstnärer jag gärna återkommer till. Det händer ofta att jag drömmer om fjällvärlden i norr, och jag har även mött Nils-Aslak i mina drömmar. Jag kan inte vänta tills jag får sjunga detta. Jag har läst hans lyrik i snart 20 år, och lyssnat på honom live i Kautokeino år 2001. Den konserten är en av mitt livs största händelser. Det ska jag berätta om vid ett lämpligt tillfälle.


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Today I have taken out a big envelop from my book shelf. It's the score of a musical piece, contemporary music, not yet performed: "Trackways of the wind". Lyrics by the sami multiartist Nils Aslak Valkeapää (1943-2001). Music by my good friend Paul Hanmer, pianist and composer who lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. He started to write this music in the autumn of 2007 when he had a scholarship to be artist in residence in Visby for some time. International Center for Composers.

It will be a challene to find so many clarinettists...
It's me on vocals and Jonas Sjöblom on percussion, and then an ensemble of
3 clarinets
tenor clarinet
base clarinet
sub base clarinet
harp
string quartet
upright base
timpani

And the big challenge is also to find a venue to perform this. I would gladly recieve ideas from you, dear reader of this blog. Next year at www.gas-festival.com maybe?

It's Paul Hanmer who is the composer of this music, as I mentioned. His music scores are hand written with a beautiful style. I have piles of hand written letters here at home where we during many years has discussed music and what it is to be a musician in our two different countries. It's a long friendship and very important even thou it's a long distance between where we live.

Nils-Aslak Valkeapää is one of the poets and multiartists I often return to. Sometimes I've been dreaming at night I'm in the mountains of the north and I even met Nils Aslak in my dreams. Can't wait until I can sing this piece of music. I've read his poems for over 20 years and I've listened to him live in Kautokeino in 2001. That concert is one of the biggest memories I have. I must write about it later on.

Time to move on into this day!

Eva

Music I've heard along the road lately, don't miss:

I've heard so much stunning music this weekend, I feel I just have to share. Check out this beautiful song, written and performed by John Doyle:



The story is about the battle of Fredrickburg in the civil war in America, when Irish men stood on both sides fighting against eachother. "he could have been a friend or brother...."

John Doyle performed at Lempo, and I'm super much proud he asked me to join in as guest singer on his second performance. We sang a miners song, "Dark as a dungeon", written by Merle Travis. I love that song. John sang other miners songs too, among them was this extremely powerful version of Pound a week rise:



The festival Lempo in Kouvola has been just wonderful. The audience so warm and welcoming, the sound engineer really made a good job, the crew of the festival too, and exceptional good leadership made my Minna Raskinen. I'm so impressed she is both festival boss and had full focus performing with us in Nordic Wedding Music.

I'm back home tonight, have to quickly unpack and then pack my stuff again, to go back to Finland. Travelling is a big part of my life right now....so I appreciate so much being at home, my daughter, our dog and I. Time to recharge the batteries!

Eva

fönster ut, fönster in

Igår var jag hos Gunnar Eriksson i Ljungskile och förberedde vårt arbete i Lausanne. Det ska bli spännande att åka dit och jobba med 1000 körsångare. Here we come!



Jag ska bland annat lära ut kulning. De är ju experter på joddling och liknande, och jag vet att det kommer att bli väldigt intressant kulturutbyte.


Jag har packat för varmt och fint väder, utan att titta på väderleksrapporter, jag bara vill gå i klänning och sommarskor med klack. Det känns så kontinentalt då. Lindy-skorna är med också ifall ifall, googlade och fann inget direkt på lindy hop och Lausanne, men man vet ju aldrig förään man komemr dit, det kan väl finnas någon obskyr klubb där de dansar sig till fördärvet med denna jazzmusik.

Vi kommer att jobba mycket men det måste helt enkelt finnas lite tid för att sitta på ett café och njuta av tillvaron.

Önskar en god natt!
Eva

Rep-start Nordic Wedding Music

Imorgon landar Minna Raskinen (från Kouvola i Finland) i Göteborg och vi ser fram emot 4 intensiva kreativa repdagar med henne. Det är Minna på kantele, jag på sång, Mikael Godée på sopransaxofon, Mats Eriksson på gitarr. Det vi som trio påbörjat ska nu utvecklas med vår finska gästmusiker. Det ska bli så spännande och roligt!

Så tycker jag det är med det mesta, det är verkligen spännande, ofta arbetskrävande, och när man kan ge själv får man ofta tillbaka. Och i musikens värld är summan tillsammans större än de olika delarna var för sig. Så vi har förtröstan att vi ska få ett par givande dagar nu. På fredagen har vi även stormöte med vår femte medarbetare: Gabriella Persson, grafisk design. Hon har många viktiga pusselbitar till vårt projekt. Det visuella är en väsentlig bit av helheten, och vi som jobbar med ljud har ofta inte riktigt tid och kunskap att få till det i den aspekten.

Vårt första delmål är en turné på Färöarna i sommar. Senare planeras fler turnéer, både i Sverige och utomlands.

Kålltorps Konditori, där Gabriella och jag haft en del Nordic Wedding Music-möten. Om sångboken som vi har i pipeline......
Vacker god natt önskas er alla!
Eva

Wadah Khanfar talar om den demokratiska revolutionen i arabvärlden

Här vill jag gärna dela med mig av en intervju med Wadah Khanfar, chef på Al Jazeera. Det är stora saker som händer med den demokratiska revolutionen i arabvärlden. En intervjuare frågar i slutet vad vi i väst kan göra? Wadah Khanfar svarar att Al Jazeera redan märkt att väst visar att vi bryr oss, att vi surfar in och tar del av nyheterna och att det civila folket på gatan på så sätt blir sedda. De unga i dessa länder som har tillgång till internet har blivit medvetna om univeriella värden och frihetens möjlighet. Vi i väst behöver fortsätta knyta kontakter med denna unga generation och deras föräldrar, som även de gått ut på gatorna för att stötta sina ungdomar. De totalitära regimerna har bett föräldrarna hämta hem sina vilseledda tonåringar, men föräldrarna har istället ställt sig på de unga fredliga demonstranternas sida. De unga har lyckats kombinera förmågan att bära drömmen om en annan framtid, ett fritt och demokratiskt styre, och samtidigt vara så realistiska att de utan att skapa kaos fortsatt kräva de totalitära regimernas avgång.
Ja, just nu händer det historiska saker!

Ny konsert till helgen

Foto Peter Lloyd.

Nu på lördag och söndag är det dags att presentera Nordic Wedding Music för publik, för första gången. Många trådar ska knytas ihop, texter finslipas, den första formen för konserten bearbetas om och om igen. Vi repar tillsammans och ensamma var för sig. Vår önskan är förstås att få värma vår publik i januarimörkret, att få dela med sig av några nya pärlor funna längs resvägarna. Mina resor för denna konserts repertoar har gått till Finland, Norge, Färöarna och runt omkring i Sverige också. Så det är många spännande möten och intryck som samlats ihop till att bli denna nya konsert.

Hoppas du kan komma!

Eva

Välkommen på premiärkonserter med
Nordic Wedding Music

Eva Rune - sång
Mikael Godée - sopransaxofon
Mats Eriksson - gitarr

Härna kyrka
Kl 18 på lördagen den 15 jan. Härna kyrka ligger i Södra Vings församling i Ulricehamn.

Lutherska Missionskyrkan, Vasagatan 2 B, Göteborg
Kl 19 söndagen den 16 januari

Fritt inträde.

Vi presenterar för första gången för publik: varma, spännande och raka bröllopssånger vi funnit i Sverige, Norge, Finland och på Färöarna. Tolkningar av Eva Rune, sång, Mikael Godée, sopransaxofon, Mats Eriksson, gitarr.

Durspel och ändå moll

Här sitter jag och eftersläcker med en kopp kaffe efter dagens spelning. Idag var vi på ett boende där de behöver ganska mycket omvårdnad och inte orkar ta sig iväg själva.
Jag har med mig durspel och tänker utveckla det under dessa två veckor på Speldags. Idag fick jag beröm för att jag spelade fint durspel. Wow, jag som gör enklast möjliga men försöker göra det med känsla. Med all respekt för att det är ett instrument som har så fina möjligheter och jag känner flera som är mästare på durspel. Det är fantastiskt att höra dem, och jag är inte alls i närheten. Men intrumentet förgyller ändå med sin klang. Sång, saxofon och durspel, fint ihop! Mikaels spel är fullt av sköna infall och utvikningar. Ihop med sångmelodin hinner det hända mycket, och då kan det behövas ett barnsligt enkelt durspel ibland.
Igår fick vi kred för de psalmer vi spelar. Idag tyckte en dam att vi spelade alldeles för sorgliga låtar. "-Kan ni inga glada bitar? Vi är inte döda än."
Ja, vad ska man svara på det? Vi har dock ett varierat program med både vackert och svängigt om vartannat.

Jag har saknat min banjo som inte varit framme på ett tag. Under eftermiddagen lärde jag mig en ny banjolåt. Från min dvd med Bob Carlin, en skön banjo-snubbe med runda flaskbottenglasögon och hawaii-skjorta. Cluck old hen, och sen prova lite på Shady Groove, en riktigt bra gruvarbetarlåt från Harlan.

Imorgon gör vi två spelningar.

Kvällshälsningar,
Eva