Katrine Grarup Elbo SLUTSANG/endpoem live at Festival of Endless Gratitude 2020, Copenhagen 20200913

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FoEG 2020, Koncertkirken, Blågårds Plads, København.

Katrine Grarup Elbo is a violinist and composer based in Berlin and Copenhagen. Elbo is a founding member of the sound collective We like We and a range of other ensembles that span improvisation, composition, performance and installation.

SLUTSANG / endpoem, a song cycle of seven movements, is Elbos first solo work taking cues from contemporary American composers such as Meredith Monk and Julia Wolfe in a symbiotic mixture with Nordic folk tunes.

SLUTSANG is based on fragments of poems by Danish poet Julie Mendel and features five young voices accompanied by solo violin with electronic effects. Elbo’s dark and energetic violin playing and the differing young girls’ voices lighten up the words of Mendel in a constant exchange between short solo passages, powerful unison cries and crankily pulsating multi voicings.