Janne Mark – Kontinent (2020) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Janne Mark – Kontinent (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:36 minutes | 866 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ACT Music

With this second release on ACT singer, songwriter and hymnist Janne Mark presents a kaleidoscopic travelogue from her pilgrimages in life and art. KONTINENT is a soaring departure from PILGRIM (2018) and documents the expanding collaboration with musical miracle worker Arve Henriksen.

KONTINENT affirms Janne Mark’s position as a strong voice in contemporary hymn writing and as a sculpturer chiselling out melodies from the bedrock beneath her. The world she creates for herself on KONTINENT contains as diverse elements as the melodies of the northern Atlantic folk music tradition, Danish author Naja Marie Aidt’s poem from the novel When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back and the spellbinding 7th-century celtic lullaby Taladh Chriosta and they sit comfortably among the hymns and clear-cut melodies of the artist herself. And melody is essential to her:

“I am fascinated by the borderlessness that melody represents. Melodies, when shared among people in communal singing especially, disregard borders and fringes, and have a way of finding a path of their own”.

The trademark tranquility that attracted audiences and critics alike to PILGRIM is fused with a productive playfullness. Arve Henriksen is omnipresent as a trumpet soloist and co-producer. His songlike phrasing flickers like a firefly around the beacon-like vocals of Mark, who in turn graces us with sky-reaching outbursts. As on Kingsfold, the symphonic fusion of harmonium, mellotron, grand piano, gushing march drums and Henriksens seven-piece horn arrangements, all created spontaneously in the studio. Or on Both In The World And Yet Outside It, which in its bold minimalism leaves space for drummer and sonic shaman Bjørn Heebøll, who is making a most welcome ACT debut and is a new collaborator in the terrain of Janne Mark.

Tracklist

1. Janne Mark – Altid allerede elsket
2. Janne Mark – Har døden taget noget fra dig så giv det tilbage
3. Janne Mark – Kingsfold
4. Janne Mark – July
5. Janne Mark – Psalm for a Tree, Pt. I
6. Janne Mark – Taladh Chriosta
7. Janne Mark – O du min Immanuel
8. Janne Mark – Ny begyndelse
9. Janne Mark – Psalm for a Tree, Pt. II
10. Janne Mark – Both in the World and yet Outside It
11. Janne Mark – Længselsvise

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