EXCELSIOR
Det Yderste Hav (The Outermost Sea) is a work of songs for mixed choir centering around themes such as hybrid identity, human nature, and healing. The Danish composer and musician Anja T. Lahrmann (aka Excelsior) has a hybrid heritage herself with origins deriving from the Greenlandic town, Aasiaat. Lahrmann is driven by a curious and personal interest in exploring the feelings connected to being a composite of two cultures in an ongoing postcolonial wake. The mentioned themes are reflected in the lyrical material as well as in the very foundation of the music. Consisting of a string of singular compositions creating a varying melting pot, the music unfolds alongside Greenlandic, Danish, and English language as well as weaving in and out of psalm-inspired church music, electronic songwriting, through-composed sequences, and improvisation. Det Yderste Hav is performed by Nuuk-based choir Ingiulik and Crescendo from Sisimiut at Arctic Sounds in April 2023.
Det Yderste Hav sammisat soorlu akusatut kinaassuseqarneq, inuttut pinngorsimaneq peqqissinerlu sammisaralugit akuleriimik erinarsoqatigiinnertalimmik erinarsugartaqarput. Danskeq taalliortoq nipilersortartorlu Anja T. Lahrmann (aka Excelsior) akutatut kingoqqisuusoq Kalaallit Nunaanni Aasianninngaanneersoq. Lahrmann misigissutsit kulturit marluk assigiinngitsut akornanni nunasiaataareernerup kingunerisaanik ataqatigiisitsinermik soqutigisaqartuuvoq inuttullu soqutiginnittuulluni. Sammisat taakkartorneqartut taalliaani ersersinneqarput nipiersuutaanilu toqqammaviullutik. Taalliat immikkuullarissut, allanngorartumik aatsittutullusooq illugit, kalaallisut, danskisut tuluttullu oqaatsit akuleriisillugit nipilersorneq ingerlanneqarpoq kiisalu oqaluffimmi nipilersuutit tussiarnermit isumassarsiorfisut, elektroniskimi taallioriaatsit, tamakkiisumik erinnikkat piareersaqqaarnagit saqqummiunneqarlutik. Det Ydre Hav Nuumminngaanneersunit erinarsoqatigiinnit Ingiulik aammalu Crescendomit Sisimiuneersunit erinarsoqatigiinnik ingirtilerlugit apriilimi 2023-imi Arctic Soundsimi tusarnaartitsissapput.