She has taken a step onwards and become a pianist and has focused her artistic expression to a new solo format.
Recorded in her home in February of this year, ∝omestic Songs is a new development for this acclaimed vocalist. Two cover versions feature on the record, The Beatles ∛ecause and Tom Waits Time. Her band, The Slow Motion Quintet still appears on three tunes, and trumpet player Sjur Miljeteig, who is also one of the albums producers, contributes on several of the tunes with Solveig alone. On ∝omestic Songs she mostly accompanies herself on the piano, and the album has become a personal, homely piece of music inspired by things and events in the immediate surroundings of domestic life. The instrument that I bought is such a beautiful and inspiring entity to have in the house, so I started practicing again and moving towards a personal format. I rediscovered lost talents on the piano, says Solveig. This was the inception of the project that has now been completed as the album Domestic Songs. For the prize money she purchased a grand piano which she installed in her home. In 2005 Solveig was the personal recipient of two prestigious prizes, the Kongsberg Jazz Festivals music prize and the Radka Toneff memorial award. Over four records Slettahjell and her Slow Motion Quintet have nurtured this velvety, birch bark shimmering interpretation of jazz to much acclaim and commercial success, winning the Norwegian Grammy awards in 2004 for the album of jazz standards called Silver. Big and bold the whole way through and with nary a stumble, Something Else is another triumph from Tech.09. Late in the game, there's the true pop-rap uplift of "Believe" and the weird, wonderful mash-up "Strange 2013," where Tech meets the remaining members of the Doors and a Jim Morrison sample. "Fragile" ups the game artistically with jazz club ambience and the great Kendrick Lamar as guest star, and right before "My Haiku - Burn the World" brings on the Strange Music family with longtime friend Krizz Kaliko in tow, Tech unleashes a kinetic bit of Death Grips-like punk-rap that's clever as all hell. Joining the club feels triumphant during these moments, while, believe it or not, "Bitch" offers a more layered argument that Tech is the real deal, with T-Pain and touchy racial issues all being skillfully juggled by a man who once seemed strictly juggaloo. Here and elsewhere, Tech tears down his critics when any Internet search box will reveal his reviews have been generally quite good in recent years, but Something Else overcomes these moments with an attitude that the whole world should submit to the rapper's Strange Music empire, and he's going to keep stomping and storming until even Grandma is a fan. Tortured souls looking to enter the ring (or pit) couldn't ask for a more epic entrance theme than "Straight Out the Gate," which throws a children's choir, System of a Down's Serj Tankian, and an orchestra into a rap-rock mix that would be endorsed by Zeus. Building on the pop and polish of his 2011 release All 6's and 7's, this 2013 effort from Tech N9ne finds the angry and angsty rapper bringing back some of the horror show rap of his early days, which is good, because now his nightmares are not only vivid, but incredibly well-funded.
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