Trasighet och Fransar
Trasighet och Fransar, yes. The melancholy and subtext-covered lyrics in so many of Olle Adolphsons songs (of love relationships) gets a beautiful luster when it is filtered through Iris Bergcrantz's youthful, high pitch, and light voice.
-Alexander Agrell Sydsvenskan
Bergcrantz has at her disposal a high pitch yet strong voice, she articulates well… Her intrusive sheer voice is elegantly mixed with refined instrumentation, which among other things creates three lyrical jewels.
-Mats Hallberg Orkesterjournalen
This is Swedish song tradition when it is at its best, interpreted by a young singer who already is one of the foremost jazz vocalists.
young dreams
different universe
That the artist herself is rapt by what she interprets can sometimes almost distance the listener. Bergcrantz on the other hand instead makes it very beautiful, in so many different ways. She is gentle with the material, and seems to really trust the lyrics that she sings. Most importantly she is able to express emotions that not only exist within the lyrics or the compositions, but somewhere in between, perhaps partly in the arrangement itself.
Also, while performing live, she is just as convincing.
- Johannes Cornell Dagens Nyheter
Trasighet och Fransar is an absolutely wonderful album
When a female singer tackles Adolphson, it is almost impossible not to compare her to Monica Zetterlund but don’t worry! Bergcrantz does not try to sound like Monica Z. She is certainly not a pale copy. She sounds like herself. And that goes a long way, a very long way.
This is an album both for those who would like to discover Olle Adolphson, and for those who know him well but would like to hear the familiar music in a slightly different but throughout very convincing way.
- Sten Wistrand Kulturdelen
She sings so beautifully, well and brittlely.
-Bengt Eriksson HiFi & Musik
Young Dreams was nominated for a “Danish Music Award” under the category Vocal Jazz Album 2020
Vocal jazz CD of the Year in LIRA Musikmagasin 2020
Vocal jazz CD and Vocal singer of the Year in The 42nd Annual Jazz Station Awards
Dagens Nyheter writes: “Iris Bergcrantz grabs hold of the listener with her strong feeling”
— Johannes Cornell
Orkesterjournalen writes “The music creator from Scania is successfully bringing together beautiful melodies with artistic leaps. She either sings deeply rooted in the lyrics, or in a characteristic wordless song. Boundlessly hovering.”
— Mats Hallberg
Press quotes about Different Universe
“This girl is a force of nature”
“Vocal jazz CD of the year 2016”
— Arnaldo Desouteiro, Jazz Bozza and Beyond
“New Swedish jazz sensation! So she would immediately put herself among Sweden’s - even the worlds foremost jazz vocalists? Answer: Yes.”
— Bengt Eriksson, Ystad Allehanda
Always exiting with new musicians with both routine, visions, and the tools needed to achieve her goals”
— Alexander Agrell, Sydsvenskan
förgänglighet
kära mor
åkervinda
Nominated for a Swedish Grammis in the category “Årets folkmusik” in 2019
“Förgänglighet is a spiritual cleansing bath, a surprise, a little sensation in everyday life. Let yourself be fascinated.”
— Robert Ryttman, Zero Magazine
“... it’s a joy to hear these four voices joined together to form a whole of musical credibility”
— Leif Linnskog, Orkesterjournalen
Kära Mor
“The group sings the traditional folk songs in such a free and unconstrained way that the familiar folk expressions found in the well-known repertoire are almost certanly transformed into vocally bold arrangements. Åkervinda implements a real update of the traditionally saturated tunes from the past to a level that holds the most complex vocal harmonies, sometimes near a jazz idiom”
— Gunder Wåhlberg, Lira Musikmagasin