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Gifting Senselessly In Endless Lavishness

by Kim Myhr

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“Gifting Senselessly In Endless Lavishness” is the second single out from Kim Myhr’s upcoming album “Sympathetic Magic”, an ecstatic, delirious, and deeply touching piece of music; a towering new work in Kim Myhr’s increasingly substantial output as an artist and composer.

“Gifting Senselessly In Endless Lavishness” is a title taken from a book by Bojana Kunst. The music is very generous. I like to think of it as the RnB song of the record. The first thing I wrote on the piece was the organ intro, I wanted to make something ecstatic and soulful. The rest of the song flowed naturally into different sections. Working with an RnB drum beat like that was a first for me. It was nice to work with an element so grounded, it’s quite a contrast to the swaths of orchestral 12-string guitar harmonics that takes you far out on the sea.

“Symphatetic Magic” is the follow-up to Kim Myhr’s 2017 album You | me, which was widely praised and received an honorary mention at the 2018 Nordic Music Prize. While the immersive warmth of You | me is still present, Sympathetic Magic is more expansive than its predecessor. A band of eight musicians playing a wide variety of instruments including electric 12-string guitars, drum machines, vocals, synthesizers, organs and lots of drums and percussion, has created a work of a grander scale.

Thematically, Sympathetic Magic circles around the solitary longing for collective bliss and togetherness. For thirteen months, Myhr worked incessantly on this large-scale 74-minute suite of music. While the world was locked down, thanks to a commission from Oslo Jazz Festival, he had the opportunity to go far into the project, working tightly with the members of the band, one at a time.

“This music created a situation of unexpected positivity,” adds Kim. “It felt like a social project even if I spent most of the time on it alone. All this positive and joyful energy was a quite magical feeling, just arriving out of thin air in this pretty grim situation. The whole thing almost felt like a hallucination; like an imaginary project.”

Norwegian guitarist and composer Kim Myhr has been touring internationally since the early 2000s and has released several records under his own name. His album You | me (2017) was nominated to Nordic Music Prize, and received wide acclaim internationally. As a composer he has made music for Australian Art Orchestra, Canadian string quartet Quatuor Bozzini, Kitchen Orchestra and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra of Norway, and has collaborated with Jenny Hval (on the 2012 collaborative album “In The End His Voice Will Be The Sound Of Paper”, Tony Buck of The Necks (on the album “You | me”), Lasse Marhaug, Christian Wallumrød, poet Caroline Bergvall and many others. He has toured extensively the last fifteen years across Europe, Americas, Asia, and Australia. His last record Vesper with Australian Art Orchestra was nominated for a Norwegian Grammy in 2020 in the contemporary category.

“Kim Myhr is a master of slow-morphing rhythms and sun-dappled textures that seem to glow from the inside”. - The Guardian

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released July 13, 2022
Kim Myhr: electric 6- and 12-string guitars, organ, bass,
synthesizers, voice, drum machine
Hans Hulbækmo: drum set, percussion
Michaela Antalová: drum set, percussion
Ingar Zach: gran cassa, timpani, percussion, vibrating speakers
Adrian Myhr: bass, additional electric 6- and 12-string
electric guitars
Anja Lauvdal: additional organ and synthesizers
Håvard Volden: additional 6- and 12-string electric guitars
David Stackenäs: additional 6- and 12-string electric guitars

Music composed and produced by Kim Myhr

Guitars, organ, synthesizers, voice recorded at Uffizi Sound,
January-June 2021
Drums recorded at Paradiso, Rosenhoff by Kyrre Laastad,
August 2021
Additional drums recorded at Norges Musikkhøgskole and
Maridalsveien 3, Oslo and Stillverk, Trondheim,
February-June 2021
Additional guitars, bass, organ and synth recorded at
Flerbruket by Magnus Nergaard, June 2021
Mixed by Kyrre Laastad at Øra Studio Trondheim
September-October 2021
Mastered by Doug Henderson at micro-moose-berlin
December 2021

Photo and video: Cleo Wächter/Tebbe Schöningh
Design: Aslak Gurholt

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Norwegian guitarist and composer Kim Myhr has been touring internationally since the early 2000s and has released several records under his own name. His album You | me (2017) was nominated to Nordic Music Prize, and received wide acclaim internationally. ... more

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