Label: STORMA

素晴らしいオルガン・ドローン作!!本作がデビュー作となる、スウェーデンはゴットランド島を拠点に活動するFelicia SjögrenのソロLP。同じ島に住んでいたオルガン制作者Alfred Cedergrenの2つのマニュアルとペダルを備えたリードオルガンを使用、短めの5つの楽曲を記録したドローン作品としては珍しい編成のアルバム。ハードな持続音を好むマニアも唸らせるであろう程良い重みのあるサウンドが特徴的であり、4曲目[Terram]ではズブズブの深淵ドローンも披露。配給は同国のDiscreet Musicが担当。







This album is written and recorded on a reed organ with two manuals and pedals. The instrument was built by Alfred Cedergren who was a reed organ builder 1870–1925 in Vänge on the island Gotland, Sweden. During this period of time Hulda Veström lived in the same village. When Hulda was 14 years old she left her mother and sisters to travel to her father in Los Angeles. In spring 1912 she boarded the Titanic together with her aunt, who was also named Hulda. There is a picture of the two Huldas in the wooden chapel in Vänge where the Cedergren instruments today are gathered. In 2019 Felicia Sjögren moved to Vänge and the chapel with reed organs became her closest neighbor. Over time she got to know the instruments and stories of the village. When she decided to write music on one of the organs she knew she was going to dedicate it to Hulda, a teenage girl 100 years into space and time of this very place. Hulda is also the name of one of the few women prophets in the Bible, appearing in the Old Testament with warnings of the doomsday. The album is written and recorded in the chapel by Felicia Sjögren.