ALEXANDER HAWKINS – SOFIA JERNBERG : MUSHO. Intakt 420

ALEXANDER HAWKINS – SOFIA JERNBERG MUSHO		Intakt CD 420
		Release Date: April 2024

Sofia Jernberg: Voice Alexander Hawkins: Piano Cover Art: Yonas Kidane (Detail from an image available under CC BY-SA 2.0 Deed) Graphic design: Paul Bieri Liner notes: David Toop Photo: Niclas Weber		Arrangements by Sofia Jernberg and Alexander Hawkins, except "Correct Behaviour" by Sofia Jernberg. Recorded on September 26, 2023, at Atlantis Studios, Stockholm, SE, by Niclas Lindström. Mixed and mastered in December 2023 in London by Alex Bonney. Produced by Sofia Jernberg - Alexander Hawkins and Intakt Records. Published by Intakt Records. Intakt Records, P.O. Box, 8024 Zürich, Switzerland. www.intaktrec.ch
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Infos EN
Sofia Jernberg and Alexander Hawkins are among the most multifaceted and expressive musical personalities with a surprising radius of action. Swedish singer Sofia Jernberg explores the boundaries of vocal technique in a variety of creative contexts, ranging from Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire to Mats Gustafsson’s Fire! Orchestra. Alexander Hawkins is often described as unrivaled in modern creative music and is considered one of its most innovative and imaginative pianists and composers. In the duo, traditional songs from Ethiopia, Armenia, Sweden and elsewhere become the starting point for the development of an exciting and very personal sound world. David Toop writes in the liner notes: “Where is home, where is return for the scattered? Soft and crystalline, a music of edges, silence and tangential shoots, Musho dwells in these questions, invites the listener to consider displacement, migration, identity, responsibility, bloody history, the seepage of culture and community, but more than that, invites listening.” Musho is predictably a fantastic work of contemporary music.

Infos DE
Sofia Jernberg und Alexander Hawkins gehören zu den facettenreichen und ausdrucksstarken Musiker*innenpersönlichkeiten mit einem überraschenden Aktionsradius. Die schwedische Sängerin Sofia Jernberg lotet die Grenzen der Gesangstechnik in einer Vielzahl von kreativen Kontexten aus, die von Schönbergs Pierrot Lunaire bis zu Mats Gustafssons Fire! Orchester reichen. Alexander Hawkins wird oft als unvergleichlich in der modernen kreativen Musik beschrieben und gilt als einer der innovativsten und einfallsreichsten Pianisten und Komponisten der zeitgenössischen Musik. Im Duo werden traditionelle Lieder aus Äthiopien, Armenien, Schweden und anderen Ländern Ausgangspunkt für die Entfaltung einer spannenden und sehr persönlichen Klangwelt. David Toop schreibt in den Liner Notes: «Where is home, where is return for the scattered? Soft and crystalline, a music of edges, silence and tangential shoots, Musho dwells in these questions, invites the listener to consider displacement, migration, identity, responsibility, bloody history, the seepage of culture and community, but more than that, invites listening.» Musho ist ein fantastisches Werk musikalischer Gegenwärtigkeit.

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