REBEKKA KARIJORD shares performance of Mausoleum before London & Dublin shows next week


"Mausoleum is an ode to women in the previous generations of my family; the sacrifices they made and the battles they took, which in turn created the fundament for the freedoms I have as a woman today.“

Following the release of her moving new album Mother Tongue at the start of the year, Stockholm-based composer & performer Rebekka Karijord will play live at London’s Heath Street Baptist Church on May 17th and Dublin’s Unitarian Church on May 19th.
 
Ahead of the performances, she today shares a second glimpse at what to expect, with this moving performance of vocal-only track ‘Mausoleum’ performed live at Södra Teater in Stockholm with Mariam Wallentin (WIldbirds & Peacedrums, Mariam The Believer), Linnea Olsson and Nina Kinert. The set design was made by theatre stage designer, Anna Heymowska.
 
“I wrote it after asking my grandmother about her life and her dreams, before she passed last year” explains Rebekka. “She had five children and was one of Norway´s very first female oil platform welders. She always wanted to be a writer, but suppressed a lot of dreams and creative desires. My family is full of storytelling, creative women, but I am the first one who has an artistic career. So Mausoleum is an ode to women in the previous generations; the sacrifices they made and the battles they took, which in turn created the fundament for the freedoms I have as a woman today.“
 
Watch the video for ‘Mausoleum’ (live): 
https://youtu.be/3hTHlhH1QA4
 
Largely written following the traumatic arrival, three months early, of her first baby, Mother Tongue is a fearless piece of work. It not only tells of the pain of this period of her life, but also draws links between the agony of nearly losing her daughter, and much of her pregnancy before then spent in Hawaii, where her husband’s family live. As one of the world’s most remote archipelagos, it helped return her to both her Northern Norwegian roots and the very core of her being.
 
“The secluded feeling of being so far out in the ocean, the strong currents and non-control one is faced with when meeting the huge masses of water: these are good metaphors for the feelings I went through.” In fact, she describes pregnancy and parenthood as “the biggest lesson in non-control. Being pregnant was such an amazing and freaky feeling at the same time. It’s another body, taking whatever it needs, regardless of my opinion.”
  
Unashamedly sentimental at times, Mother Tongue represents a bold statement, both musical and thematic. Born of instinct, it’s about the connection we all feel, but sometimes ignore, to what’s inside us, and the need to listen to our intuitions. That it does this against a backdrop of music as visceral and heartfelt as its subject makes it all the more exceptional.
 
Rebekka Karijord will play the following shows:
May 17th – London – Heath Street Baptist Church
May 19th – Dublin – Unitarian Church
 
Mother Tongue tracklist:
1. Morula
2. Waimanalo (Soundcloud)
3. I Will Follow You Into The Wild
4. The Orbit (Soundcloud)
5. Your Name
6. Six Careful Hands
7. Home (Official video)
8. Stones
9. Statistics
10. Mother Tongue (Live video)
11. Mausoleum (Live video)
 
Links:
Dance Umbrella Use My Body While It’s Still Young
Mother Tongue pre-order link
Rebekka Karijord on Facebook

For more information please contact: 
kate@stereosanctity.co.uk / t. +44 7812 607 230

May 10, 2017 11:30am ET by Stereo Sanctity  

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