OKeh: Rebekka Bakken — Things You Leave Behind — Vinyl LP

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Product Details:

• Product Type: Vinyl LP
• Brand / Label: OKeh / Sony Music Entertainment
• Artist: Rebekka Bakken
• Release Year: 2018
• UPC / EAN: 190758763712
• Genre: Jazz / Pop / Singer-Songwriter

Product Features

• Format: 12" vinyl LP
• Tracks: 11
• Made in the EU
• Condition: New, factory sealed

Overview

Rebekka Bakken has spent two decades carving out a sound that sits between jazz, pop, and folk-tinged singer-songwriter writing, and Things You Leave Behind is one of her most direct, song-led records. Released on OKeh in 2018, it leans into warm, atmospheric arrangements built around that unmistakable voice — smoky, supple, and entirely her own.

The Norwegian singer writes about distance, memory, and the things and people we move past — themes the title track makes plain. Songs like "Closer," "Shelter," and "True North" pair plainspoken lyrics with a road-at-night mood that the cover image, Bakken behind the wheel, captures perfectly. There's a country undertow to some of it and a jazz musician's phrasing throughout.

On vinyl the album breathes the way it's meant to. Pressed and packaged for the EU market, this is a sealed copy for anyone who follows Bakken's catalogue or Scandinavian jazz-pop more broadly — an album that rewards playing front to back rather than skipping around.

Interesting Facts

• Rebekka Bakken first reached wide international attention as half of the duo Julia Hülsmann–free project and through her early-2000s collaborations, before a long solo career.
• She is Norwegian by birth and spent formative years in New York's jazz scene, which shapes her phrasing.
• Things You Leave Behind was released on OKeh, Sony's jazz imprint with a history stretching back to 1918.
• The album closes the "road" theme it opens with — the cover, sleeve imagery, and song titles all circle travel and departure.
• The record collects eleven original songs rather than the standards or covers some of her earlier projects featured.

Track Listing

1. Closer
2. Black Shades
3. Things You Leave Behind
4. Time After Time
5. Yankee Days
6. Shelter
7. True North
8. Charlie
9. Sound of Us
10. Hotel St Pauli
11. Dance for You

(Track timings not printed on the sleeve; can be added if disc labels are provided.)

Publishers

℗ & © 2018 Sony Music Entertainment Germany GmbH. Released on the OKeh label. Distributed by Sony Music Entertainment. Made in the EU.

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