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About Hannah
Hannah Edlén is the world’s first ‘One Woman Clarinet and Everything’ band.
This title carries with it a varied background of Music Education, Music Therapy, as well as a lifetime of recitals and orchestral performance. It indicates a wealth of influence that has informed Hannah’s perception of music and give her the opportunity to create ethereal layers of sound by using field recordings, children’s toys, and her arsenal of wind, keyed and stringed instruments. Combining new ideas, new instrumentations, and new technologies with a true sense of childlike wonderment at the beauty of sound is what makes the experience of Hannah’s music truly unique.
Her premiere solo album, Somersault, was recorded in a cabin just north of Madison, WI and will be released by Sunday Night Records in the fall of 2019. Hannah plays every instrument featured throughout the album including (but not limited to) vocals, guitar, bass, drums, melodica, clarinet, Rhodes Piano, synthesizers, bari sax, some fire bells she got from an abandoned building, a drum machine her friend bought for $5, and some cows and geese. (the cows and geese were conducted, not played)
In addition to her solo work, Hannah is part of the musical collaborative, Nate Meng and the Stolen Sea; a nationally touring and award winning group of like-minded musicians pushing the boundaries of time and space. Their most recent album, Bury the Hatchet, tells the story of bandmate John Hitchcock’s Comanche and Kiowa ancestry. In between performances and her ongoing quest for knowledge, Hannah is currently writing an educational resource to teach musicians of all skill levels how to compose their own music using the ever-expanding technology of looping and sound capture.
-Hannah Edlén/Sunday Night Records
RELEASES
Somersault
Release Date: April 1, 2020
written and performed by Hannah Edlén, Produced by Hannah Edlén and Ryan Lansing
LISTEN TO EARLY TRACKS ON SOUNDCLOUD
LISTEN TO EARLIER TRACKS ON BANDCAMP
The Voyager’s Companion (with Nate Meng and The Stolen Sea)
Release Date: May 1, 2020
written by Nate Meng, arranged and performed by The Stolen Sea
VIDEO
FB Live (with The Stolen Sea)
Reebok Fit-Barge (with The Stolen Sea)
Tiny Desk (with The Stolen Sea)
Boiler Room (featuring Xander Anim, Jesse Cole III, Carlos Guzman, Allison Lenz, and Nate Meng)
PRESS
https://isthmus.com/events/upstage-stigma-2019/
https://isthmus.com/events/j-marsden-hannah-edlen-nate-meng/
https://isthmus.com/events/time-hannah-edlen-nate-meng-the-stolen-sea/
https://www.missoulaartmuseum.org/index.php/ID/d1c87804b0365258715fc488c08340cb/fuseaction/exhibitions.detail.htm
https://www.hybridpress.net/bury-the-hatchet
GUEST APPEARANCES
Chloe, Andrew, Frandu Spotify links
PERFORMANCE
Future:
Past:
May 18, 2019:
Bury The Hatchet CD/Vinyl Release
The Winnebago (Madison, WI)
with Nate Meng and The Stolen Sea