Norwegian musicians Øyvind Kristiansen and Jonas Kilmork Vemøy have a new album titled “Hymns of Compassion.” The new recording features beautiful meditations for Easter and the Holy Week.
In a sound landscape that virtually places the listener in a cathedral, they have crafted music for the Holy Week with focus on the drama of Good Friday. The duo has created an album with improvisations of such popular hymns such as “O Sacred Head Now Wounded”, “Den stunda i Getsemane” [The agony in Gethsemane] and “Hill Deg, Frelser og Forsoner” [Hail Savior and Redeemer].
Although most of the tracks on the album are instrumentals, there are some songs featuring vocals. Three popular singers appear on Hymns of Compassion: Beate S Lech, Marthe Haaland Wang and Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat.
Øyvind Kristiansen on piano, organ and programming; Jonas Kilmork Vemøy on trumpet, electronics and programming.
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