Susanne Abbuehl - The Gift (2013)

In her albums of sung poetry, Susanne Abbuehl grants words room to move. For her, "setting verse" implies more than the pinning of a poem's cadences to a fixed arrangement. On 'The Gift', as on her earlier recordings 'April' and 'Compass', she insinuates herself inside the texts, explores their inner rhythms and their melodies and meanings, and sets them free to gently float and sway.