I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer in a number of settings in recent years. Here, she stands out alone and tells us that she is and has a voice that is so personal and strong that I am almost knocked to the ground.
I have a confession to make: I entered Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer’s sound universe and artistry quite late. Fortunately, in recent years, I’ve sharpened my skills and picked up Akku 5, Vox Humana and “Klangbiotoper”. With this in mind, it was with great excitement and expectation that I went on her solo excursion “One Voices”. And what an excursion we were taken on!
It doesn’t come as a bombshell that Meyer is a voice artist with unique qualities, but here she takes us to places we didn’t know existed and makes me sit on the edge of my seat to make sure I don’t miss the slightest thing because there is a lot going on here – a lot.
Like Sidsel Endresen, who I’m guessing Meyer has listened to for a quarter of an hour or two, Meyer has created his own language and his own universe. The music has been recorded first in the studio and then, to some extent, spiced up with the adventurous 20-second reverberation in the Emanuel Vigeland mausoleum.Meyer plays with and challenges herself, and us, in a way that she is completely alone in and which ensures that she consolidates her position as a leading communicator in a genre-busting landscape.This is free, it’s open, it’s searching and it’s music that can’t be compared to anyone else’s.
When the vinyl edition is equipped with interesting texts written by the wise minds Steffen Schorn, who has also been a co-producer, Nils Henrik Asheim and Ljubisa Tosic, as well as an in-depth description of each individual track and a number of other interesting information that makes the insight into the music more transparent, this has become another revelation and introduction to Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer’s universe that will stay with you – for a long time!
