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Prayers & Observations

album by Torun Eriksen

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 5, 2022
Entity authorityQ7239060 ↗
Source-derived summary

Prayers & Observations (released 2006 by the label Jazzland 2006) is the second album by jazz composer and vocalist Torun Eriksen. In ten new songs written by Eriksen, she is once again joined by her loyal musicians. As her first release Glittercard (Jazzland 2003) was produced by Bugge Wesseltoft, he again applies his trademark production to this album.

Editorial summary

“Prayers & Observations” enters the record as album by Torun Eriksen. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Prayers, Observations and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2006. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Prayers, Observations and album.
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Why this record matters

“Prayers & Observations” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Prayers, Observations and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 5, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q7239060. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Prayers & Observations” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.