MÖRK.

Henrik Meierkord

AB155: November 2024

MÖRK

November is here and winter is showing its first signs.

In this album called MÖRK, which means darkness in Swedish, Henrik Meierkord is exploring the deeper meaning of dark tonal depth together with his both classical cello as electric cello and other strings instruments, this time injected with his pedals, electric guitar and synthesizers as a unique sound

Sometimes you can develop a track by making a mistake, for example if a delay pedal locks itself and becomes a drumbeat by a strange sound. This means that a lot of the tracks are as a matter of fact improvised grounds that he later builds upon. This album needs you to inhale it as a whole and explore the evocative tones of a darker unconscious world.

   

Tracklisting:

  1. MÖRK I
  2. MÖRK II
  3. MÖRK III
  4. MÖRK IV (Hypnose)
  5. MÖRK V
  6. MÖRK VI
  7. MÖRK VII
  8. Drone Arpegia I
  9. Drone Arpegia II
  10. Sauber
  11. Delay Drone
  12. LÅG

Henrik Meierkord

Henrik Meierkord is a Swedish musician based in Stockholm, experimenting with different genres. With the cello as his main instrument, he also masters viola, double bass, guitar and numerous other instruments. As a composer, Henrik creates vivid, full-bodied pieces that draw as much from ambient music's meditative qualities as they do from humanity's rich history of classical styles. As a cellist, he injects emotion that is both relatable and intimate, across a diverse range of musical collaborations. With a work rate that is nothing short of astounding, Henrik continues to explore every possible expression of human feeling, from the heart-wrenching to the transcendental. And yet, a lightness and curiosity run throughout his process, with the sole aim to bring true benefit to the listener.

Henrik's keywords in making music are pause, vacuum of time, the unconscious, consciousness, dream, meditation, a way of avoiding direct thoughts and reality. He combines Neoclassical approach with his string instruments and effects and sometimes together with synthesizers.

Reviews

Organ Thing

“November is here and winter is showing its first signs” so it says here, it was dark in London not longer after 4pm, it really does feel like Winter is here today and yes this instrumental album does fir the mood today, “Henrik Meierkord is a Swedish musician based in Stockholm, experimenting with different genres. With the cello as his main instrument, he also masters viola, double bass, guitar and numerous other instruments. His keywords in making music are pause, vacuum of time, the unconscious, consciousness, dream, meditation, a way of avoiding direct thoughts and reality”.

The title of the album means darkness in Swedish, we’re told Henrik Meierkord is exploring the deeper meaning of dark tonal depth together with his both classical cello as electric cello and other strings instruments, this time injected with his pedals, electric guitar and synthesizers as a unique sound. Not sure how unique it is, we do seem to get so much that tastes something like this, we seem to have some kind of dark atmospheric instrumental album landing here at least a couple of times a week, not to say that this is a bad album, far from it, but then very few of them are. This is beautifully painted, vivid, full-bodied, rich, it would make for the prefect thing to play at the current Ken Currie exhibition. It is something you need to hear in full, to let it unfold properly, you can’t judging on a could of the pieces, you need the full experience, you need that vacuum of time (and you need to call it something more than just neoclassical for heaven’s sake). This is a beautiful album, a dark album yet, but not darkly disturbing, it you allow it then it really is a rich state of unconscious warm. And that is a rather fine album cover as well, I think we said that abou this last album cover, it doesn’t seem that long ago that we did review his previous album – he’s done it again!

Link to review > HERE

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