Edinburgh Napier University

  Haftor Medbøe (guitar), Gunnar Halle (trumpet/voice) and Eva Malling (bass) join creative forces in the recording of music inspired by the Danish poet Martin N Hansen. The album is released on limited edition, hand-numbered 10” vinyl on 03/June/19 and available for purchase with bundled digital download and streaming exclusively from http://copperfly.co.uk
A son of the tiny island of Als on the east coast of Denmark, Hansen’s poetry contemplates a bucolic life of times past, casting its gaze on love, belonging, and nostalgia. The album features finely woven re-interpretations of musical settings of Hansen’s verse attributed to a variety of composers from the first half of the 20th century. Across the nine tracks, the trio seeks to translate the texts into a suite of tone-poems, in which the story-telling spirit of the original dialect verse is given new life and fresh perspective.