Lovisa Samuelsson Quartet (SE) + Christian Wallumrød Ensemble (NO)

OM LUX BOREAL

Lux Boreal udfordrer det klassiske festivalformat og byder på nyskabende nordiske toner. Med fokus på den særlige magi, der opstår når originale og genrekrydsende musikere fra forskellige traditioner rejser rundt med samme karavane, skaber den nomadiske festival et mangfoldigt indblik i kreative miljøer fra hele Norden med et udsøgt kunstnerisk program. Lux Boreal rejser gennem Finland, Sverige, Norge og Danmark fra 26. april til 13. maj, og denne aften kan du opleve Lovisa Samuelsson Quartet og Christian Wallumrød Ensemble, når Lux Boreal gør stop i Aarhus, Danmark. Læs mere om Lux Boreal HER.

Arrangementet er arrangeret i samarbejde med Radar og afholdes i Den Gamle Bys Helsingør Theater, Viborgvej 2, 8000 Aarhus C.

Lovisa Samuelsson Quartet

Lovisa Samuelsson will be performing music from her latest album STAD/DIS which was selected as one of the top ten albums of the year by Kulturredaktionen, Sveriges Radio P1:

'The music is dreamy, progressing slowly, sometimes majestically... The task of determining the genre is really impossible... sometimes it follows in the tradition of singer-songwriters, in other moments it’s meditative chamber music, sometimes cinematic moods versus jazzy elevations. It is important to state that the music never becomes overloaded or unnaturally whimsical. Instead, the songs form a coherent pattern of fabulously beautiful and meaningful sequences...' - Mats Hallberg, Kulturbloggen

Lovisa Samuelsson - cello, guitar, piano, vocals
Per Norin - keys, vocals
Felisia Westberg - bass, vocals
Anna Lund - drums, vocals

LOVISA SAMUELSSON is an artist, multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2007 she released the EP Oslo and has since then been active on the Scandinavian music scene. In 2014 she released the debut album Main Magma Chamber and her second full length album STAD / DIS in 2020. She has been performing her own music in Europe, Central and North America, but also tours in Sweden and Europe with artists like Ane Brun, Jonathan Johansson, Loney Dear, Tomas Andersson Wij, Mauro Scocco, Sarah Dawn Finer among others. She has composed music for both theater and film. Lovisa Samuelsson is the founder of PACAYA records, a Gothenburg based independent feminist record label owned and run by the artists.

Christian Wallumrød Ensemble

Christian Wallumrød is considered to be one of Norway's most prominent musicians and composers on the contemporary music scene, and the Christian Wallumrød Ensemble (CWE) is one of his main projects.

Wallumrød's long-standing collaboration with producer Manfred Eicher has resulted in 5 albums with CWE on ECM Records. The ensemble has also released the records Kurzsam and Fulger (2016) and Many (2020) on Hubro Music. All albums have been met with great enthusiasm among critics and audiences around the world, and several of them have also ended up on various best-of-the-year lists in national and international media. CWE has toured and played at festivals in Norway, Europe, the USA, Canada and Japan since 2003. Together with the ensemble, Wallumrød has developed his idiosyncratic chamber music over a 20-year period, and with various line-ups.

Since 2014, CWE has consisted of these musicians:
Espen Reinertsen – saxophone, recorder, electronics
Eivind Lønning – trumpet, electronics
Tove Törngren Brun – cello, electronics
Per Oddvar Johansen – drums, vibraphone, electronics
Christian Wallumrød – piano, harmonium, electronics 

Many years of activity and record releases have generated a lot of material, so currently the ensemble picks pieces to play from the entire repertoire history.