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Torn Light Records
Chicago, IL 60647
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Henning Christiansen – Satie I Hoj So

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Restocked, last copies. The Institute for Danish Sound Archeology and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark present a reissue of the most enigmatic and rare of Danish artist and composer Henning Christiansen’s albums Satie I Høj Sø. Originally released in 1977, the album collects five central works from Christiansen’s neo-romantic period in the 1970s. This completely overlooked and virtually unheard period in Henning Christiansen’s oeuvre contains perhaps his most fascinating and beautiful works. For ten years, from 1969-79, Christiansen turned his back to the art scene and made a very unorthodox artistic decision: To leave behind “art for arts sake”, fluxus, and the concretist art music, that he had invented in the 1960s. Instead he created a music that was a positive vision for the future. A music that would make it “sing” inside the listeners — and by changing them would change the world. A convinced communist, Christiansen created wonderful joyous waltzes and dancing melodies that set to bring about a revolution — both an inner and an outer revolution — by believing in the good in the world and by having hope for a bright future. Now, with the re-release of Satie I Høj Sø the music can make it sing inside us again. “Art should be such, that the People believe in themselves” –Henning Christiansen, journal entry, 1971. Carefully remastered from the original master tapes; 180 gram vinyl; High gloss cover; Henning Christiansen’s own program notes for the music in both Danish and English — 16-page booklet with never-before-seen pictures and a new in-depth article about Christiansen’s works from the 1970s in Danish and English.

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