Signe Marie Rustad - When Words Flew Freely
Norwegian-American singer/songwriter Signe Marie Rustad was born and raised on a farm in central Norway, where the forest, river and fields have filled her with a deep calmness and never-ending restlessness. As a result, many of her songs carry within them a search for a balance between these elements.
After catching the attention of the growing americana-loving audience in Norway with 2012 debut Golden Town – the title a reference to her mother's hometown Golden, Colorado – Rustad secured her first Spellemann (Norwegian Grammy) nomination with critically acclaimed second album Hearing Colors Seeing Noises (2016).
“The album is masterfully built with the title song, a “prelude”, as the foundation. Then the framework slowly but surely rises, with folk songs and more country-oriented songs, on an unusually strong album.”
On upcoming third album, When Words Flew Freely, Rustad returns with the powerful, elastic voice and poetic lyrical style that has earned her a loyal fan base in Norway. The album's nine tracks revolve around traumatic life events, and the feeling of emotional stagnation, with a severe writer’s block as a result:
“Slowly moving on from personal struggles, trying to restore my emotional range and get into writing music again, I started opening up old boxes. Not just ‘boxes’ within myself, but actual boxes, of CDs, cassettes and vinyl that I listened to during my formative years. Just trying to recall how all this music would resonate within me and how it would make me feel, trying to open up to those kind of feelings again,” Rustad says of writing and recording When Words Flew Freely.
Together with producer Kenneth Ishak (of Norwegian cult-band Beezewax), and with backing from new label Die With Your Boots On Records, Rustad looks to build on the success of her previous albums, with a new excursion into free-flowing, folksy, cosmic music.
INFO
Signe Marie Rustad – When Words Flew Freely
Art. no: DWYBO001
Release date: November 1st , 2019
Tracklist:
1. When Words Flew Freely (Prelude)
2. Red Light Calling
3. Not Without My Pen
4. We Belong Somewhere
5. Something Easier
6. Hands Across Her Back
7. Die with Your Boots On
8. A Thousand Lights
9. When Words Flew Freely 6:21
SINGLES
”Die With Your Boots On” (May 31st, 2019)
”Something Easier” (September 27nd, 2019)
Pre-order Signe Marie Rustad’s up-coming album Particles of Faith
Photo by Marthe Amanda Vannebo