Bad Sassendorf, April 2023 - Jazz singer Simone Helle, who grew up in Germany with Persian roots, will release her new album "My Starry Eyes" on June 16, 2023 via Timezone Records. The album combines a Modern Mainstream Jazz with Gospel to World Music influences. The album features renowned 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. "My Starry Eyes", produced by Simone Helle and Thomas Erkelenz, recorded in various recording studios, was mastered by Hans-Jörg Maucksch, Pauler Acoustics.
Helle's vocals are reminiscent of jazz greats such as Nina Simone, Dianne Reeves and Cassandra Wilson. Klaus Bernatzki's horn arrangements add depth and dynamics to Helle's compositions and enhance her vocal radiance. What makes this album special is the wide range of Hele's vocal expression - both stylistically and in terms of vocal range and timbre.
Bad Sassendorf, April 2023 - Jazz singer Simone Helle, who grew up in Germany with Persian roots, will release her new album "My Starry Eyes" on June 16, 2023 via Timezone Records. The album combines a Modern Mainstream Jazz with Gospel to World Music influences. The album features renowned 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. "My Starry Eyes", produced by Simone Helle and Thomas Erkelenz, recorded in various recording studios, was mastered by Hans-Jörg Maucksch, Pauler Acoustics.
Helle's vocals are reminiscent of jazz greats such as Nina Simone, Dianne Reeves and Cassandra Wilson. Klaus Bernatzki's horn arrangements add depth and dynamics to Helle's compositions and enhance her vocal radiance. What makes this album special is the wide range of Hele's vocal expression - both stylistically and in terms of vocal range and timbre.
With this album Simone Helle has fulfilled her own dream of very individual arrangements and creates with her very multilayered and extensive vocal dimension the most diverse atmospheres and moods, which take the listener into the most diverse sound worlds - an album to enjoy.
A first album review of jazzreportagen.com speaks of "Hele's nuanced and sensitively used voice" as well as of an "enraptured atmosphere", "truly beguiling and evocative".
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 like 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-Hilfen and a successful crowdfunding.
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