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Rolf Enström
Immeasurable Traces

Album SE 2005 on Phono Suecia label
Electronic and Classical (Musique Concrète, Contemporary)

Rama (1998), for mixed choir & electronic sounds. Kairos (1999), for tape. Kronos (2000), for 5 voices & electronic sounds. Saxplock (2001), for bass saxophone and tape. Ebb (2002) for alto saxophone and tape. Tide (2002), for soprano saxophone and tape. Recorded at Studio 2, Radiohuset 7 October 2003 (1, 4-6), The Engelbrekt Church Stockholm, 26 May 2004 (3). Sleeve Notes: “My art lies in a borderland between pictorial art and music – where the images are missing”. Rolf Enström composes electroacoustic music, often combining it with voices, instruments or images. Some of his works are classics of contemporary Swedish music: Slutförbannelser and Tjidtjag och Tjidtjaggaise. One of the works presented on this CD is "Music for an observatory" which was commissioned for Stockholms Observatorium’s 250th anniversary 2003. Rolf Enström’s describes a night-time experience in New Zealand in 1988: “I got out of the car and turned my face upwards. When I saw the amazingly rich firmament I had what you may call a shock. The experience still lives inside me and it is only now, in retrospect, that I understand that it is that experience I managed to transform into sounds in a passage in "Observatoriemusik". DSD layer: stereo and 5.1 surround versions.

Musicians

	Rolf Enström , *1951 SE composed by, liner notes, album by
	Stockholms Motettkör , choir
	Olof Boman , conductor
	Hans Jonstoij , narrator
	Sonny Jansson , narrator
	Karin Enström Salomonsson , narrator
	The Purifive , choir
	Jörgen Pettersson sax, as, *1964 alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass saxophone

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