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We're slowly uploading the Solborg catalogue to Sleeve. Full access for all Backstage-Pass and All-Acces subscribers.

Here Maniscalco/Bigoni/Solborg and the album Canto.

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The press wrote:
"Rewriting the rules of contemporary chamber jazz, Solborg’s music is as vital today as Joe McPhee’s Po Music ensembles of the 90s.” 
Fred Grand - JazzJournal.UK 

"proposing a vital experience, making music that can’t forget sound (in its acoustic properties) and listening, both internal (oneself) and external (the others). This music is extremely rich and adorned, [..] as discreet as it is persistent "
Sandro Cerini, Musica Jazz

"Such profound and rare beauty is achieved only when kindred spirits meet and keep refining their poetic agenda"
Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts

" ..radiates a power that’s as likely to deliver a gentle shock as brighten the room with its warmth". Dave Sumner, The Best Jazz on Bandcamp: June 2022

Francesco Bigoni − Tenor & alto saxophone, clarinet
Mark Solborg − Guitars, devices & electronics
Emanuele Maniscalco − Rhodes, piano & keyboards

With a buzz in our ears, we sing our way through the cantos of a new book. Shout – or whisper – our musical poetry into a spacious realm of warm analog keyboards, strings and reeds, flooded with subtle electronics, granular processing and microtonality. Interwoven contemporary chamber music tableaux are carefully folded into a unique multilayered electroacoustic blend – grandiose and yet intimate.

Maniscalco/Bigoni/Solborg navigate freely with and around original materials. This is about improvising as a unit while honouring or challenging the idea of a song. To instantly react to each other and create chamber-like music with a strong presence, that bridges melodic poetry and contemporary abstraction. This music does not care about genre or style. It is essentially about musical conversation and made for ears interested in dialogue.

This Danish/Italian trio has worked their musical approach intensely for a decade. The results can be heard on its two prior albums, praised internationally by audience and critics. With CANTO, the three musicians bring their work and musical approach into a new crisp territory.

Theatre of Voices and Concerto Copenhagen’s new album, Songs of Solitude, invites listeners into a spiritual and timeless soundscape where past and present merge.

Presave it here.

On Songs of Solitude, Theatre of Voices, Concerto Copenhagen, Michala Petri, and Paul Hillier unite in a unique collaboration, blending Sunleif Rasmussen’s music with ancient texts and a contemporary musical language.

The album features two works, each exploring the spiritual and mythological in its own way, drawing listeners into an enigmatic world of ancient tales.

In Songs of Solitude and Night, texts from The Elder Edda—rooted in Viking history—intertwine with the mysterious sounds of bass recorder, percussion, and wordless glissando singing.

The second part brings William Heinesen’s poem Hogboy to life in a dramatic story of a spirit from the Stone Age, where female voices dance in the moonlight while male voices give sound to the darkness of the underworld. Dedicated to Paul Hillier and Theatre of Voices, the piece is recorded with the renowned recorder soloist Michala Petri.

The cantata Klar op vort mod, lys for vor fod, featuring Concerto Copenhagen, draws its structure from Bach’s cantatas and is written for soprano, baritone, and Baroque ensemble. Inspired by Gregorian chant and Baroque music, Rasmussen creates a modern work exploring prayer and the power of community.

Songs of Solitude will be released on February 28 digitally and on CD via Dacapo Records.

Featuring:

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Michala Petri

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Theatre of Voices

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Concerto Copenhagen

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Paul Hillier