Anja Garbarek - Briefly Shaking (2005)

1. Born That Way 
2. Dizzy With Wonder 
3. The Last Trick 
4. Sleep 
5. Shock Activities 
6. Yes	
7. My Fellow Riders
8. Can I Keep Him?
9. This Momentous Day 
10. Still Guarding Space 
11. Word Is Out

- Anja Garbarek / sax, vocals
- Gisli Kristjansson / organ, synthesizer, bass, guitar, percussion, drums, keyboards, programming, Theremin, xylophone, melodica, Handclapping, noise, wurlitzer, effects
- John Mallison / banjo, guitar, piano, programming
- Øyvind Brække / trombone
- Richard Cottle / Hammond
- Erland Dahlen / drums
- Miguel Diaz de Lopez / sampling
- Frode Haltli / accordion
- Kjetil Steensnæs / guitar
- Terry Thomas / guitar
- Godfrey Wang / piano
- Steven Watts / bass
- Bruce White / strings
- Gavyn Wright / strings
- Patrick Kiernan / strings
- Boguslaw Kostecki / strings
- Peter Lale / strings
- Cathy Thompson / strings
- Chris Tombling / strings
- Julian Leaper / strings
- Martin Loveday / strings
- Rita Manning / strings
- Perry Mason / strings
- Everton Nelson / strings
- Rachel Bolt/ strings
- Caroline Dale / strings
- David Daniels / strings
- London Session Orchestra / strings

Daughter of the Norwegian avant-jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek and, like her dad, something of a fusionista, with her fifth album (including the recent soundtrack to Luc Besson's Angel-A) Anja is unlikely to reap the commercial whirlwind of, say, Ravi Shankar's offspring Norah Jones. Yet buried within this 40-minute mismatch of breathy, slow-burn folk-chanson and dated electronica - the worn-vinyl beats beloved of yesteryear's samplers; the squelches, rumbles and other digestive noises Björk raised to an artistic apogee on the wonderful Homogenic - is one terrific song and a few near misses.

The chorus of The Last Trick rises on a thermal of triumphant wistfulness of which Madeleine Peyroux would be proud; the woodwind-driven This Momentous Day struggles inside a cacophonous metal arrangement; and such fragments as the micro-song Yes and the fade-out to Sleep all frustratingly suggest an engagingly dreamy songthrush who should be freed from an ill-fitting cage of her own misguided construction. ---Mat Snow, theguardian.com

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