UNNI LØVLID, MARIANNE BAUDOUIN LIE Svarteboka
Aurora Records from Norway releases a new album of Unni Løvlid and Marianne Baudouin Lie, two accomplished artists and musicians - Svarteboka. A beautiful exploration of tonalities and different compositional approaches that blend modern composition with diversity of its aspects and nuanced experimentation. In a historical sense, a word - svartebok (“black book”) used to be a book of magic containing spells, incantations, and medical remedies. The oldest we know - svartebok in Norway dates from around 1480 and was found in Vinje, Telemark. Løvlid and Lie created a svartebok of their our own time. Dramatic shifts accentuate some unsettling moods and climaxes. But beyond the musical textures - the whole material seems to be asking questions. it invites to exercise a certain type of listeners' attention. On the other hand there is a different context of the album: Mahvash Sabet, whose texts have been set to music by Lasse Thoresen, is an inte...
