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.

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.