Mark Solborg: TUNGEMÅL I+II (Special Digital Edition)

Digital album + eBooks (A download link with eBooks, mp3 and wav files will be available after payment). 

TUNGEMÅL is concerned with the electrified guitar as a voice in contemporary chamber-musical contexts. With this comprehensive project Solborg wishes to elaborate the intimate listening experience, and develop methods and tools for the creative work at hand. An extensive artistic study and qualifying awareness of the modern guitar in interplay with acoustic instruments, and the musical spaces they inhabit.

How do you talk - alone and with others - when you are the only one that is being translated through a loudspeaker ? ..is it possible to play both acoustically and electrified - simultaneously ? ..and can you get closer to the intimate speaking voice of the creating musician.

Guitarist , composer and bandleader Mark Solborg has in the course of the last three years concurrently with his work for groups and concerts investigated and developed his instrument and a musical idiom. During the course of three volumes Solborg illustrates and documents his research, discoveries, attacks on the tongue of the guitar - and musical conversation in acoustic spaces. With this body of work he is setting ambitious new standards for his realm of music. His TUNGEMÅL.

Presented here Vol I, focusing on solo works and Vol II that contains works for duo and trio- both recorded in the studio and site-specific. The debut, on record, of Solborgs work with pianist par excellence Simon Toldam, mr. integrity, reedman Lars Greve and a new duo-side of the ongoing collaboration with melodian Bigoni. Vol III is to be released in spring 2021 and holds recordings with Susana Santos Silva, Lars Greve and Paul Lovens - live in concert.

The two corresponding books contain a multitude of related process-material. From written reflections and notes to scores, footage, spatial digrams and graphic illustrations. All created and compiled by Solborg himself with the ambition of mapping the topography and formulating the poetics of the work that along with the music contributes to the full understanding of TUNGEMÅL Solborg views the entire release as a collection or dictionary that seeks to be experienced by specialist, student and layman alike

Catalogue #: ILK308+309
Release date: November 20th, 2020

Line-up:
Mark Solborg - Guitar
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Lars Greve - Clarinets, bass clarinet, soprano, tenor & baritone saxophones
Simon Toldam - Piano
Francesco Bigoni - Tenor saxophone & clarinet