CHRISTINA SANDSENGEN

SOLACE

 BEST CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM

 

“…Of course, solace means comfort in a time of sadness or despair. But with these compositions, I don’t only mean to comfort. I also mean to give sound to sadness and despair itself—and fury, shock and anguish. With my guitar, and with layers of drums and piano and broom sticks and fire, I want here to unfold the many layers of my perseverance. I want to make a raw, honest portrait of that feeling of trembling, tumbling—when something almost mythical takes hold of your chest, so you are hardly able to breathe. But when I was a girl, I discovered that my guitar can breathe for me, that it can make a language beneath language, for a resonance that travels from fingertip right to the bone. I hope you feel here, as I do, the fragments of relief—and, yes, solace.” – Christina Sandsengen