Silje is one of my favorite Jazz female vocalists, or maybe I can list her the very top 3 Jazz singers of my list. I always want to give it a chance to share my feelings about listening to her music. Unfortunately I always felt that my words would be never good enough to tell how I feel. That’s why I ended up no trying, but only keep my joy to myself. I got the album “At First Light” at a quite late stage, almost a couple years after its releasing year (2003). But just as the album’s name suggested, I love it at my first sight. With the very first 3 notes beginning at the first time, I knew it will be forever staying in my music collections.

She is different, not that she is from Norway, a chilled yet enchanted country of far northern of Europe, but her voice, clean and childlike voice, calms you down and strokes your heart for its own peace. It feels like to be brushed by a comb with its comfortable teeth. Every stroke easies your pain and puzzle. It might in the end solve nothing out, but it helps to swipe the pressure, let you take the world slowly and get back to yourself, looking at inside of your heart for at least that period of time of the songs going on.

People like to treat Jazz as a kind of background music. Just look at what sort of music those Cafe shops choose, you will know this is a fact in no doubt. For some of them, it’s okay and a natural result of the style has offered. But for a Jazz singer who sings with a profound soul, you can never do that, even a bit tempt to act like that. The quality Jazz song can be low-volume even near the whispering, sad or gloomy, smooth or whatever the word you can find to describe the background music, but it never had the less impact on a sensitive heart. It’s all about the attitude how a singer performances. They make their impression not by stimulating your nerves, but something tending to go inward, by a heart-upon-heart self exploring.

Every time when the song “LULLABY TO ERLE” got on, I was just so ready to die. Love it to death, can’t help stopping whatever I was doing at the moment, and had to find a seat to hold my body tight. It’s so hard to just listen to it at mean time doing something else. It would be a desecration if you treat it like that. And, it’s a moment close to being “Bewitched”:-) (Well, “Bewitched” is another my favorite song of her in her 2000 album “Port of Call”). It’s a bliss~