This interview with the Belgian magazine JazzMania is delightful for capturing Mari’s warmth and vivacity (so evident in her music), and for its title (intimist as in introspective; concerned with inner life and psychological experiences), and for its mention of two lesser-known attributes that I happen to share: un peu français and a Laestadian childhood.

If you know more than un peu français, see the original article. For the rest of us, below is a Googlified English version.

Cue up Amame and enjoy!

---

24 January 2024

Mari Boine, Intimist

by Yves «JB» Tassin

Always with much emotion in her voice, Mari Boine returned in 2023 with an intimate album to which keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft brought his delicate touch. She tells us about it and also looks back on a career that is far from over.

After we are introduced, Mari says with a smile:

Continue reading →