Gabbarein
Duo
Nordic ethereal folk duo of Norwegian vocalist Cecilie Hafstad and American composer Christopher Bono.
About
Gabbarein was recorded in the Arctic Circle, Norway — the landscape is not backdrop but material. The space between Hafstad's voice and the surrounding silence is the composition's primary interval. Working at the intersection of Nordic folk and open-air sound design, the duo pursue a transparency of production: nothing that the place itself wouldn't offer.
The album is available in 96kHz hi-resolution audio, mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, New York. The hi-res format is not an afterthought — Gabbarein is music designed to be heard at the resolution of its making.
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“a spellbinding meditation”
Ink19 · 2024-05on Gabbarein
“If Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance), Karin Dreijer (Fever Ray) and Aurora had teamed up, you wouldn't have come close to the depth and breadth of this… intimate and fascinatingly captivating… there is little else like this.”
VGon Gabbarein
“a sonic and visual ode to the complexities of human emotion”
Idioteqon Gabbarein
“We find it breathtaking”
The Wild Calling · 2024-02-01on Gabbarein