With music from Kim Myhr, the trio Building Instrument (Noorwegen) & Eleanor Dubinsky (USA).
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For this album, guitarist / composer Kim Myhr has collaborated with poet Carolyn Bergvall with songs related to passage and transience. Kim Myhr plays on a twelve-string guitar, the percussion is by Ingar Zach, they play together with the string quartet Quatuor Bozzini from Montreal. On this album Kim Myhr’s predilection for repetition is more than clear.
CD. Pressing Clouds Passing Crowds – Kim Myhr.
Label: Hubro / [PIAS] 2019. Video
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The Building Instrument trio started playing together in Bergen in 2008, and their original idea was to explore electronic music. This project was quickly abandoned in favor of a more acoustic music. Their game is largely improvised and playfully performed as an ensemble. Singer Mari Kvien Brunvoll sings for the first time in Norwegian on this album and even uses her local Molde dialect. The album was nominated for a ‘Spellemannspris’ (the Grammy of Norway) in the open category. CD. Mangle Min – Building Instrument. Label: Hubro/[PIAS] 2019. Video
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Vocalist Eleanor Dubinsky is slowly, but steadily, building a body of work that consists of elegant and thoughtful songwriting that slides easily between genres and geography through top-notch musicianship, all in service to a voice that will stop you in your tracks when you first hear it. Her new album ‘Soft Spot Of My Heart’ is her strongest work yet. Dubinsky is a singer, cellist, guitarist, songwriter and a fearless musical explorer. She is helped by musicians from different parts of the Spanish and Portuguese speaking world, organic and loyal to a sensitivity that fits the best folk music in Latin America. CD. Soft Spot of my Heart – Eleanor Dubinsky. Label: XANGO music (2018). Video
