Overli – Hjorth – Meyer – Leite – Nystrom: Bertolt Brecht CD

What’s worse? Owning a bank, or robbing a bank? To find the answer to that, Bertolt Brecht’s poetry may be a useful tool. And a good place to start maybe a brand new music album called ‘Bertolt Brecht’. Here – in the midst of a soundscape of guitar, accordion, saxophone and voices singing in German and Norwegian – Vigdis Hjorth, Norwegian author, presents some distilled treasures from Bertolt Brecht’s poetry. The singing voices are folk-artist Jorn Simen Overli and multi-vocalist Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer. They have interwoven a pattern of Brecht’s lyrical poetry, alternating between the original version in German and Norwegian renderings of the same lyrics by Overli. Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer adds sparkling elements with her innovative vocal expression.