Donnimaar is a music and visual arts project by Marie Kølbæk Iversen. The focus is on the magical songs of West Jutland that were documented in the 19th century by the Danish folklore collector Evald Tang Kristensen. The project is rooted in the partially forgotten and repressed ethnographic material, which also includes traditional songs that Marie Kølbæk Iversen’s great-great-great-great-grandmother passed on to Tang Kristensen, and which, in their narratives, bear witness to the struggle for autonomy of the West Jutland resistance against the cultural homogenization and territorial consolidation of Denmark in the late 19th century.
(cf. https://donnimaar.dk/)

Side A

1. Hustru og æ Man’ hans Mue’r (12:35)

• Lead: Marie Kølbæk Iversen
• Choir: Katinka Fogh Vindelev
• Melody: Marie Kølbæk Iversen
• Lyrics: Traditional recorded in Midwest Jutland in the 1870s by Evald Tang Kristensen
• Jutlandic reinterpretation from the Standard Danish: Michael Ejstrup
• Choral arrangements and mix: Katinka Fogh Vindelev

2. Æ Hawwfrååw hon danser o Tilli (09:21)

• Lead: Marie Kølbæk Iversen
• Choir: Katinka Fogh Vindelev
• Melody: Marie Kølbæk Iversen
• Lyrics: Traditional recorded in Midwest Jutland in the 1870s by Evald Tang Kristensen
• Jutlandic reinterpretation from the Standard Danish: Michael Ejstrup
• Choral arrangements and mix: Katinka Fogh Vindelev

Side B

1. Agenetå i æ Bjææ’r (25:04)

• Lead: Marie Kølbæk Iversen
• Strings: Torleik Mortensen and Andreas Tykjær Restorff
• Melody: Marie Kølbæk Iversen
• Lyrics: Traditional recorded in Midwest Jutland in the 1870s by Evald Tang Kristensen
• Jutlandic reinterpretation from the Standard Danish: Michael Ejstrup
• String arrangements: Torleik Mortensen and Andreas Tykjær Restorff
• Mix: Torleik Mortensen and Andreas Tykjær Restorff

Bonus track to download: (Download here with your corresponding code)

3. Adeluds i æ Bjææ’r (09:50)

• Lead: Marie Kølbæk Iversen
• Choir: Katinka Fogh Vindelev
• Melody: Marie Kølbæk Iversen
• Lyrics: Traditional recorded in Midwest Jutland in the 1870s by Evald Tang Kristensen

Jutlandic reinterpretation from the Standard Danish: Michael Ejstrup
Choral arrangements and mix: Katinka Fogh Vindelev
Recorded at Jens Benz Studio, Copenhagen
Mastering by Cedrik Fermont
Cover photo by Martin Bubandt
Graphic design by Marie Kølbæk Iversen and Laurent Schmid
Risographic print by Actum
Record pressed at Nordsø Records, Copenhagen
Released January 24, 2025, on the occasion of Marie Kølbæk Iversen’s solo exhibition
“New Atlantics” at Kunsthal Aarhus

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