Month: September 2017

HALL CRONHAMMAR INDEX

Buy BOX SET

HALL CRONHAMMAR INDEX

MARTIN HALL
2LP-BOX
OCTOBER 2017
NORDSØ RECORDS

The book and double-LP box set Hall Cronhammar Index was released in a limited edition of 491 numbered and signed copies on the 10th of October 2017. The box set contains two vinyl records with a total playing time of more than one and a half hour of music as well as a 48-page book in LP format featuring extensive photo material and an essay documenting the artists’ longstanding cooperation.

The records and book comes in a hardback canvas frame placed in a separate box that also contains a set of Ingvar Cronhammar’s newly designed “Hansha” metal cutlery with the artists’ names engraved.

Side 1: Elia (23:14)
Side 2: Racing Cars (24:35)
Side 3: H (24:00)
Side 4: Design (19:47)

H

En linje deler huden
Natten svøbt i tysthed
Blikket føles tungt som bly

En hvisken og en tøven
Gemt et sted i mørket
Som et hjertes fjerne slag

En sagte stemmes glød
Det stille morgenrøde
Et lys der falder blegt
Som skyggers sølv

Politiken (the Danish equivalent to The Guardian): “Overwhelming … the perfect combination of something industrial and something sacred.” (rating: 6 out of 6)

Berlingske (the Danish equivalent to The Times): “A unique installation in Frederiksberg’s underworld.” (rating: 6 out of 6)

Fyens Stiftstidende (major sectional newspaper): “Extraterrestrial magic!” (rating: 6 out of 6)

Information (the Danish equivalent to The Independent): “An underground cathedral of light and water … an extremely successful installation.” (no rating system)

Weekendavisen (the Danish equivalent to The Observer): ”Eminent.”

Kunsten Nu (major art site): “Water music: Sensual perception beyond the ordinary … the new work re-enchants The Cisterns.”

All reviews March 2015 in relation to the “H” exhibition.

Martin Hall: Piano, keyboards, electronics, tape material and balalaika
The Vista Dome Ensemble: Orchestra
Lydenskab: Ensemble
Konsort: Choir
Michael Morelli: Countertenor on ”Racing Cars”
Daniel Ostersen: Boy’s voice on ”H”
Maiken Kildegaard: Girl’s voice on ”H”
Christian Skeel: Keyboards on ”Design”

Design: Christina Carlsen
Photo: Maiken Kildegaard

The two vinyl records contain edited versions of the four major pieces of music Martin Hall has recorded for Cronhammar in the period 2001-2017.

The first time the two artists collaborated was in connection with the inauguration of the Elia steel dome outside Herning in 2001. Next time it happened was in conjunction with the ARoS exhibition Racing Cars in 2006.

In 2015 their cooperation reached its preliminary culmination with the subterranean reservoir installation H at the Cisterns in Copenhagen, an event that was visited by almost 100.000 people and won great appraisal from both the audience and art critics all over the world (such as The New York Times).

It was in relation to the retrospective exhibition Ingvar Cronhammar Design at HEART (Herning Museum of Contemporary Art) in 2017 that Martin Hall wrote and recorded the fourth piece of music for the box set. Formally the release was pre-launched on the opening day of the exhibition (September 8, 2017) in a limited amount of copies made available to the guests, but the remaining copies weren’t produced, signed or delivered to shops and customers before mid-October.

The album is also available in digital form.

by M H

CURRENT INTERVIEWS AND FEATURES

The media interest in and coverage of Martin Hall's new book 1971-1985 has been massive. After the launch of the book at Politikens Boghal, where Hall met the literary editor at Jyllands-Posten, David Jacobsen Turner, for a short interview, the following features have appeared:
 

 
The week after its release 1971–1985 went top 10 at Bog & Idé’s sales chart (Denmark’s largest bookstore chain)

On October 1 Hall will be guest in P2’s Søndagsklassikeren.

On October 10 he meets the renowned Danish author Kirsten Thorup at Tranquebar and on November 11 he'll be appearing at Bogforum at Bella Center Copenhagen, the big yearly book fair in Denmark.

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REVIEWS OF THE BOOK

"Martin Hall writes unadorned, beautifully, often wise and most of the time relievingly funny about his youth and early days."
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Politiken

"Hall is brilliant in his depiction of a rampant Copenhagen in the seventies ... the book is a sharp and observant snapshot."
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Berlingske

"Martin Hall has style, and with this book he manages to come close to the substance and the pain in the depiction of his early career's harsh downside with suicides, drugs and chronic restlessness."
Weekendavisen

"The multifacetted artist Martin Hall tells a charming tale of his early, wild years."
Jyllands-Posten

"Beautifully written, deeply personal, wildly entertaining and, not least, convincingly reflective."
Bogbobler

“Insightful and amusing.”
Fyens Stiftstidende

"Needle-pointed wit … the book kindles you and you’re moved as you enter its many rooms."
Radio24Syv
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by M H