Anja Garbarek - Smiling and Waving Anja Garbarek learned from her father, the jazz composer and saxophonist Jan Garbarek, that the only rule worth following is the one, which clearly states that there are no rules worth following. Anja took 4 years of sketching aural ideas and trying things out before recording the album last year.
Every song is as it's meant to be.
It is perfect, nothing else remains, the artists' page lingers in the cupboard. Brought up on Laurie Anderson, Eno and Kate Bush as well as her father's 'seriously cool' record collection one could say Anja had an idyllic start to the music. Smiling and Waving, like Anja's first two albums deals with the big issues with a sense of melancholia. Smiling and Waving is notable for many things - the duet with Robert wyatt, perhaps, the collaborations with band members from Japan and Talk Talk, maybe, but above all an album that you will not have encountered before. It is an album that requires nothing less than your total devotion - do it and you will be rewarded in heaven.