Track: These Days (A. Brun)
Album: It All Starts With One (2011)
Label: Balloon Ranger Recordings
Appears on: DALI CD Vol. 3

In 2011, Ane was a guest vocalist on New Blood, rock legend Peter Gabriel's album of orchestral re-recordings of songs from throughout his career. She duets with Gabriel on Don't Give Up, originally recorded with Kate Bush. She also appeared on the New Blood tour in 2010.

These Days
These Days is the opening track of It All Starts with One – and what a start it is! It happens only rarely, but sometimes even a clearly audible noise level that you normally don't expect to find in modern recordings immediately elevates the listener to a heightened state of awareness – this is definitely the case here.

You know instinctively from the very beginning that something unpredictable is on its way, but you're still taken aback when the percussion starts in the left channel after about 15 seconds (it happens even if you've heard the track more than once).

The next surprise is the width and depth of the soundstage and the contradiction between the stable deep bass notes, the ongoing percussion and Brun's vocal that so strongly emphasises the insecure melancholia of the lyrics.