The Village Detective: a song cycle.
Music by David Lang, performed by Frode Andersen for the motion picture “The Village Detective” by Bill Morrison
The saga began in 2016, when Morrison received an email from composer Jóhann Jóhannsson about a fisherman off the coast of Iceland who had found four reels of an old Soviet film in his net. Derevensky Detektiv (1969) was not a lost, rare, or even a particularly good film, but Morrison was intrigued, and began to build his own mystery narrative around the film’s discovery at the bottom of the ocean. “The story involves a stolen accordion,” he explains. “And I started to think about that instrument as a set of lungs that is found in the folk music of people all across the globe.” When Jóhannsson died unexpectedly in 2018, Morrison brought the idea to Lang. “David was excited by the fact that this film had new stories to tell. Ultimately we arrived at a soundtrack with a single accordion [played with elegance and emotion by danish-norwegian musician Frode Andersen] — a single set of lungs diving into the ocean to retrieve this story. The extraordinary music David wrote perfectly captures this, and the beautiful, tragic and inexorable drift of time.”
Thrash
Music by Simon Christensen, Morten Olsen, Morten S. Danielsen, Jexper Holmen and Ejnar Kanding
The album Trash is playing a part in focusing on a new path in new Danish composition music. Traditional boundaries are being erased while the evident distinction between composer and musician is dissolved. As soloist accordionist Frode Andersen has actively worked with the five composers in the making of the works on this CD. Sketches, improvisations and skew ideas from musician and composer have been recorded. And all this 'trash' has subsequently been edited on the computer into a compositionally complete expression.
OORT CLOUD
Music by Jexper Holmen
With Torben Snekkestad, soprano saxofon, Frode Haltli and Frode Andersen, accordions
Oort Cloud is Jexper Holmen's (b. 1971) remarkable breakthrough work commissioned by the Huddersfield Festival for Contemporary Music. The work's title refers to the cloud of comets believed to surround the solar system a light-year away from here. Holmen describes his own music as extremely slow and relentless, not unlike a cosmic disaster". In this world premiere recording, Oort Cloud unfolds a 1-track, 1-hour cloud of sound, also encompassing the work CosmygyralEcho by Martin Stig Andersen as a distant reverberation
Letters to the Ocean
Music by Peter Bruun
With Esbjerg Ensemble, Helene Gjerris, Peter Bruun, Frode Andersen, Petter Sundkvist
Peter Bruun (b. 1968) is one of the most distinctive and exciting voices in his generation of Danish composers. He is not afraid to express himself with simple, recognizable material, but he does so in very subtle ways. His sense of timbre and sonority is highly sensual as appears in these three works witnessing the composer’s strong fascination with the ocean.
Farvernes Landskab
toner til Jens Rosendals digte
Duo Askuo//Andersen
Hanne Askou, violin, Frode Andersen, accordion
”Farvernes landskab - toner til Jens Rosendals digte” is Duo Askou//Andersen´s 4th album featuring Danish music and songs, hymns, and folk tunes arranged for violin and accordion in classical, instrumental, chamber music versions. The album includes melodies for poems and lyrics by Jens Rosendal, set to music by 10 different Danish composers from 1974 to 2022. His songs are known from both the Højskolesangbogen (High School Songbook) and the hymnbook, such as "Du kom med alt det der var dig" (Love Song), "Kærlighedssang ved et tab" (Love Song at a Loss), "De dybeste lag i dit hjerte" (The Deepest Layers of Your Heart), and "Farvernes landskab" (The Landscape of Colors).
Stemningsmelodier
The music of Kai Normann Andersen
Duo Askuo//Andersen
Hanne Askou, violin, Frode Andersen, accordion
There are a total of 21 tracks on the record, providing representative highlights from the prolific composer's extensive production. These include revue songs, theater, operetta, and film music, Danish songs – and even a song from a commercial. Among them are both the canonized familiar tunes and timeless evergreens, as well as tracks that have not been previously recorded.
Vinterens stemme
songs, hymns and folktunes
Duo Askuo//Andersen
Hanne Askou, violin, Frode Andersen, accordion
"The voice of winter" is Duo Askou//Andersen's 2nd album, featuring 19 tracks—a blend of Danish songs, hymns, and Nordic folk music presented in the duo's own instrumental, classical arrangements.
Spring Night
songs, hymns and folktunes
Duo Askuo//Andersen
Hanne Askou, violin, Frode Andersen, accordion
"Spring Night" is Duo Askou//Andersen's 1rst album, featuring a blend of Danish songs, hymns, and Nordic folk music presented in the duo's own instrumental, classical arrangements.
Poul Ruders - Volume seven
This disc presents Poul Ruders's latest orchestral composition, a 31 minute "Organ Symphony" in four movements, featuring a superbly wrought organ part played by Danish virtuoso, Flemming Dreisig. The brilliantly orchestrated Symphony No. 4 is perhaps Ruders's most extroverted work to date. Ruders composed his Trio Transcendentale as the set piece for the Carl Nielsen International Organ Competition, and it is recorded here by the winner of the 2011 'Ruders Prize', the British organist, Nicholas Wearne. Songs and Rhapsodies is a 25 minute suite, written for the Danish accordionist Frode Andersen and the woodwind quintet of Athelas, Denmark's foremost new music ensemble