PRESS & CRITICS
About the CD "The City of My Dreams":
Nordische Musik, Peter Bickel
Who likes it, for him it will be the highest. Recommended drink: Absinth, not less than 4 liters.
Tidningen Kulturen, Guido Zeccola
Between Kronos and Krause. Her vocal equilibrities and her capability to
switch between different styles makes her one of the most interesting singers
in our country.The voice rattles , falls to later catch itself in the higher register.
It throws itself into black holes in between stones and rocks and spreads itself
in thin ribbons of waves.
Michael Haas, Producer -London
Initial impressions indicate a strong, very engaging and creative musician
with excellent arrangements. Congratulations! You are clearly an artist of
enormous talent and intelligence.
Jeff Gauthier, Cryptogramophone Records - Los Angeles
I think that you're a wonderfully talented musician, and I enjoyed listening
to this project very much. You have a very original voice with great range
and powerful expression. As a violinist, I especially appreciate your string
quartet arrangements.
About the CD "The Rain in Spain":
Vittorio Lo Conte, All about Jazz - Italia
The answear to C.I.M.P and Bob Rusch, to Blue Note
and Norah Jones is called Sophie Dunér. Here comes
to C.I.M.P a special personality with her own musical
vision beyound the typical genre....Sophie Dunér is a very
original singer and a strong composer that writes lyrics that
are everything but trivial .......read full article
Michael Coyle, Cadence Magazine
.....her sensibility and smarts are what make her songs—
and they contribute crucially to making this record .
Duner behaves according to the familiar credos of
Modern Art....read full article
David Kane, Cadence Magazine
Textually, her occasionally cryptic lyrics explore the
vagaries of male-female relationships with a wryness,
authenticity, and humor that springs from real life
experience—no starry eyed romanticism here.
Rain in Spain is good music, fine singing, and interesting
writing ably performed by four excellent musicians.
Let’s hear more from Sophie and company. read full article
s unusual the label and its recording technique is, as unusual is the Swedish singer Sophie
Peter Bickel, Nordische Musik
As unusual the label and its recording technique is, as
unusual is the Swedish singer Sophie Dunér, she is much
more than just a ( jazz ) singer. With her incredible width,
the possibilities of her voice and loads of imagination, she
creates her own song universe between jazz, chanson, folk
and fast poetry slam songs and could create an addiction.
And with her love for Duke Ellington, that surely would
sharpen his ears if he had heard her version of ”Caravan”,
”Lush Life” etc read full article
KH Stockhausen, composer ( about the CD )
I am surprised about the "American Style" of singing after
having for two years our courses.......
John Altman ( Titanic, Goldeneye, Björk )
I like the places you go and the risks you take. Your voice
has a very rich quality, a bit like Norma Winstone and the
repetoire is nicely varied and interesting.....
Ingvar Loco Nordin, SONOLOCO RECORD REVIEWS 2006
When it comes to Sophie’s achievements they are marvelous.
Her texts are fascinating, head-on, humorous, venomous,
intelligent, funny and with that dark, serious strike that raises
them out of the present,to a common ground without genres
or brands, where the songs live their own life and stand their
ground. Her melodies are almost all of the time plain hit material,
and her singing, not least, is wonderful, brilliant, sexy and melancholy
– and her phrasing is out of this world!
Derek Taylor - Dusted Magazine 2006
Sophie Dunér comes up with something personal and persuasive to say.
I hear some of Joan Armatrading in her warm, folksy way of phrasing a
lyric and lacing it with falsetto trills. There’s a little Anita O’Day in there
too, with a sassy insouciance sharpening some of her turns of verse.
Dunér’s songsmithing is suitably idiosyncratic with imagery that leaves
much to the imagination. “Jack the Ripper” finds her dealing in Yma
Sumac-evocative octave leaps. The follow-up “Lonely Woman” copped
from the Horace Silver songbook not Coleman, reminds me of the
mellower side of Patty Waters mixed with Nina Simone. read full article
CIMP, Bob Rusch - CD RELEASE - Redwood,NY 2006
“I was impressed by her form-filling yet ethereal vocal integration
within a jazz combo and also by her original compositions. Sophie
Dunér is both a personal and original singer and a composer of
substance. Her talents are well in evidence on this recording.
She is a mature, seasoned and original voice. In addition, she has
written over half of the tunes for this stunning release, originals as
notable as the standards she chose to accompany them. This is a
memorable vocalist, composer/lyricist, and presentation. " read full article
Other reviews:
SONOLOCO RECORD REVIEWS - STOCKHOLM, 2005
" Listening to this Gummeson Gallery recording and working with
the music and texts, it dawns upon me with brute force what an excellent,
yes, brilliant, composer Sophie Dunér is, in a complete, genuine sterling
way. Her texts – intelligent, biting, sardonic, parodic, humorous but also
serious and gentle – are at one with her tunes, her arrangements, and
such is the vibrant atmosphere around her creativity that I don’t fear to
say that she is among the top ten writers of contemporary jazz tunes in
the world. Furthermore, her interpretations of her own songs – her
intonation, her phrasing, her absolute stage presence – set her apart
from most of her comparable contemporaries; allows her a very special
place in the limelight – and I can only wish that she will sweep the world
into breathless surrender – because she’s worth it! " read full article
Ingvar Loco Nordin, music critic
SCANDINAVIUM - THE NATIONAL ANTHEM 2005
" You can hear when there´s quality "
Gunnar Larsson, president of the Gothenburg Opera 2005
" This is without doubt one of the better things I´ve heard during
the rescent years!"
Gilad Atzmon, The Orient House Ensemble 2005
" I am very impressed. Never stop writing and singing your own music
- you are already apart of a very creative group called musicians"
Flora Purim, Brazilian Jazz Singer 2004
WITH GILES STANLEY IN LONDON
" It is hard to find singers with intelligent music"
Giles Stanley, BBC management 2004
WITH JOHN HARLE I LONDON
" You remind me of producing Ute Lemper 8 years ago"
John Harle, Michael Nyman band 2004
" Your art and music is like a meeting between Picasso and Grace Jones"
Derek O Brien, BMG records 2004
HOLENSTEIN KULTUR ZENTRUM, GLARUS,CH
" An otstanding voice. Her marvelous way of singing and her incredible
voice reminds us of how much crap music we listen to every day through the radio"
Südostschweiz Presse AG 2001 read full article
CLAMORES JAZZ CLUB, MADRID, SPAIN.
" On stage, a nocturne and majestic voice such as the one of Karin Krogh
or Sidsel Endressen, we have the young promising singer Sophie Dunér."
Luís Martín, ABC Madrid 2000 read full article
WITH THE INTERPLAY COLLECTIVE IN KARLSRUHE, GERMANY.
" I cant forget Sophie Dunér, the Swedish singer. She has an incredibly
expressive voice and she was also convinsing as a composer"
Frieder Von Ammond, Baadische Neuste 1997 read full article
Featuring an intense Spanish vocalk performance by Sophie Dunér.
EL MINOTAURO CD ( BY GULLERMO KLEIN )
"....with an intense vocal Spanish performance by Sophie Dunér. "
David R. Adler, All Music Guide, New York 1997 read full article
AT CAJA MADRID AVANTE GARDE CONCERT
"Jazz has caracterized her carreer and evolution..."
Santy Lopez, La Voz de Galicia read full article
WITH THE ART TRIO AT GETXO JAZZ FESTIVAL
" The strong and expressive force in the voice of Sophie Dunér are a
few things that characterizes the Art Trio...".
Bizcaya Buru Bazaar, Bilbao, Spain 1997
THE INTERPLAY COLLECTIVE CD " DANCE WITH ME "
"Notable is the warm and smooth voice of Sophie Dunér"
Phontastic, Zürich 1997
THE STOCKHOLM JAZZ FESTIVAL
" Sophie Dunér came from Boston and was a success at the Stockholm Jazz Festival "
Orkesterjournalen 1994 read full article
BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC IMPROVISATION KLASS
" You sing the shit out of the hornplayers "
Hal Crook, Berklee College jazz improvisation prof. 1992
LUIS ESCOLAR, COMPOSER OF "LLIVIN LA VIDA LOCA"
"You are too good for the big recordlabels"