TUSMØRKE ANNOUCE FIRST EVER LIVE ALBUM

It’s almost unbelievable and quite strange to think about, but Karisma Records’ most productive band of all time, Tusmørke, has never released a live album. This will change on May 9^th, when the semi-acoustic live album “En pakt med naturen” will be released.

“En pakt med naturen” is Tusmørke’s first ever live album, recorded live at Oslo’s biggest independent record store Big Dipper, as part of their 25^th anniversary celebration last October. “We knew we had to do something special with Tusmørke. Benediktator and Krizla have since the early 2000s been building their record collections and releasing their own music simultaneously. We like to think the records we sold them in our store somewhat influenced their musical output, at least we know that the albums they released had a huge impact on us!” (Andreas Leine Jakobsen, Gerenal Manager, Big Dipper Musikk & Hi-Fi

For those keen to get a feel for how this album will sound like, the single for “Cycle Of the Gylfaginning” is released today (21.03), and can be streamed and downloaded at a number of services:

Benediktator has this to say about the album:

“Is this Folk Horror? Silly question, perhaps, but we need you to mutter certain phrases while listening: Bucoloc, acoustic, ancient, uncanny; acid, pagan, peasant, occult; wildness, wilderness, wildestness, Wicker Man. Ever since the start of Tusmørke, we’ve wanted to make an acoustic album. In Skien, Telemark in the 90s, we wanted to record in an ancient loghouse with an open hearth (årestue) in the local folk museum Brekkeparken. Years passed and line-ups changed. Then, when we supported Ved Buens Ende at Blå in the Autumn of 2021, we were joined by Åsa and Dauinghorn. They played some of the arrangements that we finally managed to record here, after several attempts to find a suitable time and place to make it happen. Again, time had passed and line-ups had changed, but the spirit of Folk Horror remained. We ask you to close your eyes and picture yourself in a windowless low dwelling, open to the sky through a hole in the roof. Acrid smoke curls upward and occasional sparks fly from the smoldering fire. Music wafts through the gloom in this serene scene of timeless primitivism. There is no electricity. There are no synthesizers. I won’t even mention digital things, because they don’t exist. There is only Folk Horror and you are in League with Nature.” (Benediktator)

This time there’s spectacular original cover art by Lars Bigum Kvernberg for the album, which is set for release on the 9^th of May.

Tracklisting for “En pakt med naturen” is as follows:

1. Høstjevndøgn
2. Salomonsens Hage
3. Singers and Swallows (CD only)
4. Kjentmannen
5. Heksejakt
6. Age of Iron Man
7. Cycle Of the Gylfaginning
8. Den Behornede Guden

Buy Tusmørke – “En pakt med naturen”

“En pakt med naturen” will be available in CD, Digital and Vinyl formats and can be pre-ordered now at:

www.karismarecords.no
tusm-rke.bandcamp.com

TUSMØRKE is band whose joie de vivre translates extremely well into live performances, and fans will be able to witness it for themselves when they hit the stage on the following dates (more to come).

22/3 – Hør Hør, Oslo (Bydyra)
11/4 – Karga, Kariköy, Istanbul, Turkey
12/4 – Haymatlos Makan, Ankara, Turkey
15/4 – Jesuit Cultural Centre, Alexandria, Egypt
17/4 – Cairo Jazz Club, Kairo, Egypt
03/5 – Sykkelbryggeriet, Skien
10/5 – Verkstedet, Trondheim
11/5 – Rockheim, Trondheim (Bydyra)
31/5 – Muskelrock, Alvesta, Sweden