My Starry Eyes Simone Helle

• 1 Bentheim 04:43
• 2 My Starry Eyes 04:07
• 3 Love Birds 02:50
• 4 My Inner Home 04:10
• 5 Let's Face the Music and Dance 04:55
• 6 Let Us Agree 04:14
• 7 This Fragile Love 07:32
• 8 You Must Believe in Spring 04:43
• 9 God Bless the Child 03:58
• 10 Lullaby for a Little Star 02:30
• Total Runtime 43:42

Info for My Starry Eyes

The album combines modern mainstream jazz with gospel and world music influences. The album features well-known musicians such as Olaf Krüger, Carsten Gronwald, Dimitrij Markitantov, Klaus Bernatzki, Thorsten Heitzmann, Cornelia Wolff, Nic Floer, Martin Scholz, Nils Imhorst, Caspar van Meel, Boris Becker and Daniel Sanleandro.

A first album review by jazzreportagen.com speaks of "Hele's nuanced and soulfully used voice" as well as of an "enraptured atmosphere", "truly beguiling and evocative". The entire album review will be available online on the jazzreportagen.com portal from 16.06.23. Hele's mission: to create an album that reflects her life experiences and gives musical space to the themes of an appreciative togetherness. Especially with the title "Let us agree", she expresses how important a common "code" of coexistence such as that of human rights is to enable diversity in peaceful coexistence or peaceful co-existence.

The album was financed, among other things, by an artist grant from the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the NRW Corona Aid and a successful crowdfunding.



"Truly beguiling and evocative...really strong...this successful album." (Jazzreportagen.com 6/23)

"The record really has class and quality. Of course, the album lives primarily from the singing and flair of the great jazz artist, who gives the songs weight not only in terms of sound but also in terms of content. ... full of soul, voice and depth." (Musix Magazine 7 /23)

“Your own songs…get under your skin with their haunting, finely nuanced vocals. Strong. But really impressive are three delicately presented standards, such as "God Bless The Child", to which she gives a highly emotional, fragrant new depth. For this alone it is worth discovering Simone Helle and her fantastic album." (Fono Forum 10/23)

Simone Helle, vocals
Olaf Krüger, trumpet
Carsten Gronwald, trumpet
Dimitrij Markitantov, alto saxophone
Klaus Bernatzki, tenor saxophone
Thorsten Heitzmann, trombone
Cornelia Wolff, flute
Nic Floer, piano
Martin Scholz, organ, electric piano
Nils Imhorst, electric piano
Caspar van Meel, double bass
Boris Becker, percussion
Daniel Sanleandro Fernández, drums

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