New opera release
Today we release our very first opera by @motherboard_works ! When in Cph come by @smkmuseum at 4-6pm! We are closing this year’s @cphdox! There are many people to thank here, but first and foremost this post is my humble attempt to express how much I love this woman, composer @signemlykke ! Thank you from the bottom of my heart 💗 to many more years of collaboration and friendship - this is our first opera - but certainly not our last ✨🌬 (fuck normal I want magic is by artist Mateusz Motz)
Donnimaar
During Fall 2021, I recorded, arranged, mixed and produced my dear friend artist Marie Kølbæk Iversen’s debut album. And Taaaa Daaa today we have the VINYL RELEASE of “Donnimaar. Vredens Børn” on the occasion of Marie’s performance at "TED Talks on Acid”—an innovative live event format developed by the artist collective @New Red Order and forming part of their exhibition "One if by Land, Two if by Sea" at @kunsthalcharlottenborg
"Donnimaar. Vredens Børn" is a music and visual arts project by Marie Kølbæk Iversen revolving around the magic songs of her great-great-great-great-grandparents, who in 1873 were the ethnographic subjects of Danish folklore collector Evald Tang Kristensen when he visited their house on Ørre Hede in Western Jutland. The album title combines the main character Daughter Donnimaar from the song "Æ Fåwanleng" ('the transformation') with the title of the novel "Vredens Børn" ('children of wrath') written in 1904 by Jutlandic writer Jeppe Aakjær.
The album's five songs relate to a different cultural tradition than the Protestant Christian and national romantic context of their collection: They are largely (and in places explicitly) proto-feminist, apocalyptic, anti-Christian, anti-materialist, and anti-Danish.
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Lyrics: traditional, Johanne Thygesdatter, Ane Mikkelsdatter, and others
Jutlandic reinterpretation from the Standard Danish: Michael Ejstrup
Melodies: Marie Kølbæk Iversen
Arrangement and recording: Katinka Fogh Vindelev
Lead singer: Marie Kølbæk Iversen
Soprano backing: @akainka
Counter tenor backing: @mortengrovefrandsen
Mastering: @tommykamp
Graphic design: Louise Hold Sidenius in collaboration with Marie Kølbæk Iversen Recorded at The Hum Studio. Released by @ministry_of_broken_connections © 2021 (digital) and 2022 (vinyl) with the generous support of the @statenskunstfond , the @novonordisk Foundation's Mads Øvlisen stipends for artistic research, the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, and "Soil. Sickness. Society" / the @bikubenfonden_kunst Vinyl LP produced at @nordsorecords 2022.
New cassette release
How should vocal music sound anno 2020 ? Meet @ilinx.vocalsagainstdoom , I'm honoured to be releasing their debut album Memory through @ministry_of_broken_connections on Monday the 30th of November.
Composition, production, mix and singing by ilinx
Limited cassette released by MoBC
Design and photos by @leacharbonnier
MoBC Statement:
“Why release music on cassette tape in 2020? At a time when music releases have lost their value (in a capitalist sense), and where writers and poets still have the book, we musicians have become homeless. Therefore - buy a cassette (incl. Download code) - it is small - does not take up much space in the world, and - there you go - you can even put it in your pocket! ”