The recording of "Echoes off Cliffs" took place at The Concert Hall of The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, while "Sort sol" was recorded at Sct. Nikolaj Kirke in Køge.
Performer Biography
Bjarke Mogensen, the accordionist on this album, debuted as a soloist at age 13 on German television and has since become one of Denmark's prominent soloists.
Composition History
The piece "Sort sol / Black Sun" was commissioned by and dedicated to Mikkel Egelund Nielsen, a Danish guitarist, and Bjarke Mogensen, an accordionist.
Composer Biography
Composer Martin Lohse has developed a compositional technique called "Mobile," which involves simple patterns of successive major thirds, sometimes creating transcendental music and other times a cacophonous mix of styles.
Compositional Technique
In "Echoes off Cliffs," composer Martin Lohse explores the interplay of Earth's slow, geological time and human time, with small accordion interludes developing into a melody.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Composer Martin Lohse's work "Echoes off Cliffs" is inspired by the raw granite walls and rock quarries of Bornholm, an island in Denmark, aiming to create a musical reverberation of these landscapes.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The composition "Sort sol / Black Sun" is inspired by a natural phenomenon in southwestern Denmark where large flocks of starlings create sweeping patterns that block the sun.
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