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We are proud to present our third album Last Things.

The essence of this recording was trying to capture Siril Malmedal Hauges beautiful voice and Jacob Youngs guitar-playing. All done in an elegant, often understated way - in a constant conversation.

If you like Melody Gardot, Eva Cassidy, Ella Fitzgerald or Chet Baker - chances are you will dig this too!

The production of the album is sober and transparent and really shows the strength of Sirils phrasing and delivery of inter-textual meaning - or storytelling. The album consists of 10 songs penned by both legendary and contemporaries composers like Lennon - McCartney ''I Will'', ''Lilac Wine'' James Shelton, ''Skylark'' Hoagy Charmichael and fellow Norwegian composer Bendik Hofseth on a rendition of his beautiful song ''Deep River''. The title song ''Last Things'' along with the opener ''Bounce With Me'' was composed by guitarist Jacob Young.

This is the third album from the local Oslo label, Oslo Session Recordings - once again they present us with something different - a jazzalbum that even pop music lovers will accept and can embrace.

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• Last Things is nominated in The 17th Annual Independent Music Awards: Siril Malmedal Hauge & Jacob Young - Last Things - Jazz with Vocals Album

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Personal, thoughtful, starkly minimal and yet sublimely atmospheric--this is the kind of session that's terribly easy to overlook, but if it tried to grab your attention, that would really defeat the purpose. The appeal of Last Things is in its disarming straight-from-the-heart intimacy. Simple but never simplistic, it offers the aural equivalent of late-night relaxation amid soft warm lights.

Though Siril Malmedal Hauge croons that there is 'no time to lose at all' on the alluring smoky opener, she and Jacob Young approach the occasion as if they've got all the time in the world. The vaguely Latin-tinged Young original introduces a beautiful program that puts a few jazz chestnuts, golden pop tunes and classic-rock staples all in the same cozy basket.

Young's other composition is a quasi-folky title track that pleasingly evokes Nick Drake at his most wistful. It's the only occasion where he sings as co-lead, and while it's easy to wish there was more, it's hard to complain about any of Hauge's superb performance. With a mellifluous alto much in the wheelhouse of Melody Gardot, she squeezes an impressive nuance into each unassuming syllable. She smoothly takes 'Deep River' from comfort to longing, finds the quietest in Cole Porter's 'So in Love,' and floats through a lovely 'Skylark' sounding lighthearted as a garden bird herself.

In step with Hauge's approach and his own previous ECM Records titles, Young's guitar backing is a course in humble understatement. He leans on clean quiet tones with a small dash of other things from time to time--electric delay here, background haze there, then a chirpy lead to double Hauge's scatting as they render Jimi Hendrix's 'Little Wing' with quaint soft-bop charm. This is a musical pairing soothing and delightful as sweet wine--here's hoping Last Things is only their first.

     —Geno Thackara, All About Jazz