Kristiansen // Vemøy
Norwegian duo Kristiansen // Vemøy came to life early 2020, amid the warning for a coming worldwide pandemic. After years working with their other projects and a vast number of artists and musicians, their mutual admiration for each other’s musicality and distinctive character paved way for a new and intriguing musical relationship.
«Hymns of Compassion» (2021) «Hymns of Longing» (2022) and «Hymns for Shepherds and Kings» (2024) is a trilogy meditating over mankind’s longing for the divine and eternal. With a piano and trumpet based, the duo is bringing the sound of the past and the present together with electronic elements and acoustic inspiration from jazz and classical music.
The atmosphere of Kristiansen // Vemøy’s music alternates between drama and tranquility, with subtle acoustic performances, powerful dynamic lifts, and lush emotive, and rhythmic soundscapes – all in all aiming to create a contemplative space for the restless modern human being.
It’s all rooted in the old hymns describing existential paradoxes, challenges and mysteries – the suffering, the longing and the relief.
Tania Saleh
It has been a true privilege teaming up as music producer together with Tania Saleh, one of the most respected independent artists in the Arab region, on her recent album “10 A.D.”, which released on the label Kirkelig Kulturverksted in 2021, and on her new album “Fragile” which is releasing May 2025.
The ambition on both has been to bring Saleh’s original musical ideas to life – making a blend of the authentic sound of her own geographic neighbourhood with a modern, programmed musical framework, adding to the music beats, textures, colors and depth, to letting her lovely melodies shine.
These new, great albums blends in nicely to her existing list of beautiful records. It contains fresh musical flavours, lots of vitality and interesting elements – not to forget Saleh’s strong and important message and her own visual artwork for the albums, which connects seamlessly with her utterly relevant lyrics.
Both albums have been mixed by Martin Abrahamsen at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, and mastered by Björn Engelman at Cutting Room, Stockholm – both representing the most supreme quality in sound design.