While We Still Have Light is a very layered, dense and textured album, which sucks you in with Hanne Kolsten’s subtly soft undertow of a voice, a sultry and silky instrument which winds its way into your mind, all the while making you unaware that you are falling under its spell.
At (or indeed, on) first listen, it never seems to change tone or pace right the way through, but then, put the album on again immediately afterwards and you will find here the most beautiful, soft an delicate tonal and mood changes.
Where other albums in this field (Bjork’s most recent efforts spring to mind here, when I write that) lose their way with delusions of grandeur, on While We Still Have Light, Hanne Kolsten keeps things nice and simple, with synthesiser and strings, all blending beautifully and creating an almost classically beautiful piece, which moves, gracious, precious and fragile all at once, at coolly glacial speed.
