Ane Brun: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

April 1, 2016 by TOM HUIZENGA Ane Brun recently turned 40, and she like many of us who ve reached that milestone has been taking stock of her life. It s a life filled with music and success, but there have also been a few rough spots. Like the time we scheduled her to play a Tiny Desk concert in 2012 and she was forced to cancel an entire North American tour (with Peter Gabriel) due to a lupus flareup. Brun, a Norwegian native based in Sweden, was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease when she was 27. But after that episode landed her in the hospital, Brun told NPR she d had something of an epiphany. I got an enlightenment somehow. And also freedom. Because I feel that freedom is an absence of Brun isn t afraid to face her demons. Many songs on her absorbing new album, When I m Free, speak to her newfound freedom and fresh opportunities. She sings three of the album s slower, more reflective numbers for this Tiny Desk performance. In Still Waters, Brun sings, How I ve been longing, Oh, fo