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.