Sondre Bratland // Gje Meg Handa Di // CD

Sondre's monument

Through a career spanning more than 40 years Sondre Bratland has enriched us with a voice that becomes nobler with each passing year, like the finest vintage wine. Most of his repertoire is documented on the 15 solo albums he has released on the KKV label. 

Now he has collected his most popular tracks on a monumental double CD called "Gje meg handa di" [Give me your hand], named after the song people from far and wide come to hear him sing. This release has one CD with folk songs and one with hymns. For the listener, they are presented in chronological order from 1976 to the present.

Sondre Bratland is an icon in the Norwegian folk singing environment. He is the singer who without comparison has performed in the highest number of churches in Norway, but has also performed in jazz clubs, cultural centres, festivals, theatres, pubs and cabaret stages across Norway. He has brought religious folk songs into the most seasoned and beer-stained venues, and brought folk songs from the remotest mountain settlements and the most isolated valleys into our cathedrals. Sondre has been trusted with hymns and songs which would have been lost to posterity if he had not brought them to us, and he has given new interpretations to familiar hymns so that we have rediscovered their strength and beauty. 

Two musicians perform on most of Sondre's solo albums: Iver Kleive (organ and piano) and Knut Reiersrud (guitars). We also hear interesting musical profiles, such as Einar Mjølsnes, Annbjørg Lien and Nils Økland (Hardanger fiddle and fiddle), Steinar Ofsdal and Per Egil Hovland (flutes) Roar Engelberg (pan pipes), Paolo Vinaccia (percussion) and Sigbjørn Apeland (harmonium), to mention just a few of the many musicians who have contributed on Sondre Bratland's releases.

Track list:

CD1

1. Gje meg handa di "inn i Draumen" 1988                                                       3:21

2. Luftslott i det blå "Hank Williams på norsk" 1995                                       2:54

3. Eg er einsam med min gråt "Hank Williams på norsk" 1995                       4:00

4.Til Elise "Atterklang" 1996                                                                               2:50

5. Mine visur "Atterklang" 1996                                                                         3:06

6. Det eg ikkje såg "Atterklang" 1996                                                               4:59

7. Syng meg heim "Syng meg heim" 2005                                                       4:15

8. Lykkesmed "syng med heim" 2005                                                              3:00

9. I dag og i morgon "Det er den draumen" 2008                                           3:20

10. Det er den draumen "Det er den draumen" 2008                                     3:43

11. Såg du mitt land "Våkenatt for Hardanger" 2010                                       4:05

12. Guro rid til ottesang "Alle vegne" 2010                                                       4:09

13. Viervand og Mariahand "inn i draumen" 1988                                            2:09

CD2            

1. Langt innpå ville heim "Når klokkene gjeve dur" 1976                                 2:50

2. Jeg vet en hvile "Pilegrimens songbok" 1982                                              3:06

3. Eg er ein gjest i verda "Pilegrimens songbok" 1982                                    3:57

4. Jeg er frelst å for en nåde "Den blå gleda" 1983                                         4:33

5. Kilden. "Kjeldevatn" 1985                                                                               2:43

6. Se vi går opp til Jerusalem "Mysteriet" 1990                                                2:31

7. Nu vil jeg syne min kjæreste sang "Gjest i verda" 1992                               4:03   

8. O Du herlige "Rosa frå Betlehem" 1992                                                        4:27

9. Nu solen får ned. "Dåm" 1995                                                                       3:10

10. Leid milde ljos. "Atterklang" 1996                                                                4:44

11. Som når eit barn "Kvilestein" 1999                                                               2:50

12. O, Herre i dine hender "Kvilestein" 1999                                                     2:40

13. Kveldsbøn. "Syng meg heim" 2005                                                             3:41

14. Gud signe vårt dyre fedreland "Sorgen og gleden" 2008                         3:38

15. Jesus det eneste. "Jol i mi song" 2011                                                        4:42

16. Gje meg handa di "Syng meg heim" 2005                                                  3:13