Maria Due - Willows on a Train

Maria Due - Winter's Copacabana



Maria Due is a very special mix of a gifted, multilingual poet, a distinct and strong composer, and a thoroughly unique vocal artist. Her power lies in her intense presence in every little detail – the rhythm, the diction, the emotion – rather than volume and high notes.

The references in Maria’s music point strongly to the french hipser-music of the sixties; Birkin, Hardy, Gall, Bardot and Gainsborough. As a singer she’s been described as a cross of Nico and Karen Carpenter with the groove of Mick Jagger.

When legendary norwegian producer HP Gundersen heard Maria at a solo concert in the spring of 2012, was he so moved and excited that he immediately invited her to Bergen to see if they could make something magical together. That was the start of her new album, due for release spring 2013.

As her cricitcally acclaimed debut album Kissing in Public in many ways builds around Marias subtle songs in a delicious pop-sphere, the upcoming album approaches Maria the musician instead. Featherweight rhythm guitars agains intensely rhymthical but dampened vocals. In this new incarnation Maria uses latin american musicians in the rhythm section; bassist Esau Pinto and percussionist Luis Aguilera. It also features Nils Einar Vinjor on guitar, Marita Igelkjønn on keyboards, Jon Irabagon on sax, HP Gundersen on guitars and Mari Person on strings.


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