Nordic Extraction is released by Cosmopol Music Group and features Rudersdal Chamber Players. The album is characterized by a fundamentally melancholic mood but also an extensive range in musical expression. The delicate and sensitive alongside the extroverted in explosive colours. A fascinating interplay between acoustic and electronic sounds, woven into beautiful piano and string melodies, in an artistic exploration of the essence of the region.
In the score for the work, the composer writes:
"Nordic Extraction focuses on the process of removing or taking out something, what can be extracted as being Nordic? Can one say there is a Nordic mind? The music is my subjective extraction of the nordic in a psychological sense. The genre can be described as “dark ambient” with a focus on the gradual change, exploration of tonal modal harmonic structures, and live electronics. The acoustic sound of the quartet is transformed in real-time by the MaxMSP software into a double-sided expression: the acoustic reality and the surreal electronic sound processing.
The work is conceived in a larger work cycle, The Nordic Series. They share the use of the piano and live electronics, and they are inspired by life in Scandinavia. The work series itself is characterized by music with Nordic moods. It is the dawning morning that looms hopefully in the east. The melancholy dusk when the sun colors the northern sky in red-orange colors. Spring and autumn with morning and evening shadows reminiscent of the elasticity of life. The ecstatic endless bright summer nights, and the endless pensive long winter evenings. Morning mist over the field bug, the calm glitter of the water in the moonlight. The powerful greenery of spring, the explosion of autumn in diverse colors, the bright light of winter, the long warm evenings of summer."
Nordic Extraction is the third album in the Nordic Series and follows the release of Nordic Broken recorded by Messiaen Quartet Copenhagen and Nordic Fragments recorded by Trio Ismena.
Written with support from Koda Culture and Augustinus Fonden, digital release supported by Koda Culture.