RELEASES
Förnimmelser
XKatedral 7 oct 2023
The Swedish word förnimmelser translates to mean both sensations and perceptions. In the context of Lo Kristensons debut full-length album on XKatedral, the word signifies the perception of other beings. The music on Förnimmelser consists of eight pieces in two categories, with the core compositions denoted by Roman numerals I-V. Inserted between these are pieces called mellanrum 1-3. mellanrum translates to a space in between. Consequently, these pieces use tension-filled silence punctuated by sparse activity to insert a space between the rest of the music.
Rakel Emelie Emhjellen Paulsen, Alto Flute.
Julija Morgan Kiibus, Baroque Violin
Tove Bagge, Baroque Viola
All music composed by Lo Kristenson between
2017-2018
Recorded and mixed by David Granström
Mastered by Mats Erlandsson
Artwork by Julija Morgan
Sleeve design by Stephen F. O’Malley
Thanks to
Maria W Horn and Karin Rehnqvist
On "Dissolving Strawberry" (2020)
Irrlicht August 23, 2025
“On ‘Dissolving Strawberry’ (2020)” is a collection of interpretive sound compositions thematically centered around the titular painting by Swedish artist Christine Ödlund.
“Dissolving Strawberry” (2020) portrays an ongoing decomposition process through several parallel perspectives, or planes – molecular and cosmic, as well as symbolic – by means of color pigments produced from the strawberry plant itself. Transfer of knowledge and exchange of meaning between plant and animal world is a constant in the work of Christine Ödlund, as are concepts such as transmission, translation and interpretation.
In resonance, composers Joachim Nordwall, Klara Lewis, Sonja Tofik and Lo Kristenson all draw on Ödlund’s piece as graphic notation, or graphic score, turning “On ‘Dissolving Strawberry’ (2020)” into a collective exploration of the sounding dimensions of Ödlund’s visual work. The result is four highly individual and personal sound art interpretations ranging from organic waves of processed field recordings and fractured woodwinds to distorted electronics and analogue drone stasis.
DEMIURGE
Dacapo Records 10 febr 2023
For Damkapellet, music is not individual. The collective is challenging the patriarchal structures, traditions and hierarchies of classical music ensembles by exploring new ways of working in an open space with mutual curiosity and trust. The works on the album are written by four female composers, Randi Pontoppidan and Kirstine Lindemann also being members of Damkapellet. Greta Eacottis a British-Swedish composer based in Denmark, writing music which is both playful and refined, agitating and welcoming, sensual and synthetic. Lo Kristenson is a Swedish composer who creates music where expressions of resistance, harshness and clumsiness co-exist with fragile delicacy and vulnerability.
Damkapellet is a music collective formed in 2016 to bring diversity to the Danish music scene by highlighting and performing music by artists who define themselves as women, non-binary or transgender. Demiurge, the collective’s debut album, presents Damkapellet’s unique approach to music-making with a carefully assorted programme that treads gentle lyricism and bold creative outbursts in equal measures.
Wooden Bodies
Malva Quartet : Linnea Viklund – violin, Knapp Brita Pettersson – violin, Maria Jonsson – viola, Maja Molander – cello
footprint records sept 2021
En påtagligt visionär och spännande musik för stråkkvartett som
Malvakvartetten nu vill ge en vidare spridning med sitt nya album.
Vilket säkert kommer att ske eftersom de även levererar ett
stråkkvartettspel som verkligen tar andan ur en. Som sjunger och
dansar, fräser och gör motstånd, retas, utmanar och bryter sig loss.
Och fastän styckena är helt olika i karaktären handlar de om en
och samma sak: om villkoren och möjligheterna till dialog,
om konsten att tala med varandra.
– DN 12 sept 2021