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At this moment in time, like many other people, the hopes and beliefs I have carried with me all my life are being severely challenged. I still have hope, even as I try to come to terms with what is right before my eyes.

Acoustic Melancholic songs about lost love, different phases of life and a teaser to my 2025 debut album "Those Are Not Colors!".

My very first EP 'Shion' now live on Sleeve!

TUNGEMÅL I+II 148 MINUTES OF ORIGINAL MUSIC + TWO BEAUTIFUL HARDBACK BOOKS HOLDING CORRESPONDING REFLECTIONS, GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS, SCORES AND FOOTAGE Mark Solborg - Guitar + Lars Greve - Clarinets & saxophones Simon Toldam - Piano Francesco Bigoni - Tenor saxophone & clarinet T U N G E M Å L is concerned with the electrified guitar as a voice in contemporary chamber- musical contexts. With this comprehensive project Solborg wishes to elaborate the intimate listening experience, and develop methods and tools for the creative work at hand. An extensive artistic study and qualifying awareness of the modern guitar in interplay with acoustic instruments, and the musical spaces they inhabit. How do you talk - alone and with others - when you are the only one that is being translated through a loudspeaker ? ..is it possible to play both acoustically and electrified - simultaneously ? ..and can you get closer to the intimate speaking voice of the creating musician. Guitarist , composer and bandleader Mark Solborg has in the course of the last three years concurrently with his work for groups and concerts investigated and developed his instrument and a musical idiom. During the course of three volumes Solborg illustrates and documents his research, discoveries, attacks on the tongue of the guitar - and musical conversation in acoustic spaces. With this body of work he is setting ambitious new standards for his realm of music. His TUNGEMÅL. Presented here Vol I, focusing on solo works and Vol II that contains works for duo and trio - both recorded in the studio and site-specific. The debut, on record, of Solborgs work with pianist par excellence Simon Toldam, mr. integrity, reedman Lars Greve and a new duo-side of the ongoing collaboration with melodian Bigoni. The two corresponding books contain a multitude of related process-material. From written reflections and notes to scores, footage, spatial digrams and graphic illustrations. All created and compiled by Solborg himself with the ambition of mapping the topography and formulating the poetics of the work that along with the music contributes to the full understanding of T U N G E M Å L . Solborg views the entire release as a collection or dictionary that seeks to be experienced by specialist, student and layman alike. Enjoy! - ILK309 Overall spatial concept by Mark Solborg Texts, artwork & layout by Mark Solborg All tracks recorded at The Village, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018 and 2019 by Thomas Vang. Except * recorded in Marås, Sweden, January 2018 by Mark Solborg Mixed and mastered by John Fomsgaard and Mark Solborg at Karmacrew, Møn, Denmark, spring 2020 Photos and video by Malwa Grabowska aka Hipermania, Jonas Lyngdam and Mark Solborg Proofreading by Lisbeth Bjerregaard Jacobi Printed in Denmark by Eks-Skolens Trykkeri - The press wrote: ❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎ “The melodies are beautiful, and behind them you sense an open door, straight out and up to the dark and unknown universe.. ..disturbingly beautiful and huge ambitious accomplishment.”
 – Thomas Michelsen, Politiken (DK) ★★★★☆ “Unique would be an understatement..... beautifully crafted with passion, love and creativity and the listener is constantly rewarded by surprise and the unexpected juxtaposition of sounds, instruments and space. It is a work of art and would easily justify space in any contemporary art gallery..” – Ian Lomax, JazzJournal (UK) ..en gigantisk og ambitiøs forskning i musikkens indre, mystiske og emotionelle ytringer. Men også vi lægmænd kan se os belønnede og samtidig anerkende Mark Solborgs pionerarbejde.
… Mark Solborg leve længe; det kommer der godt ud af både for det lyttende menneske og den lyttende musikforsker.”
 – Bjarne Søltoft, Jazzspecial (DK) 4,5/5 “Extensive and profound artistic study […] rich and organic […] fascinating sonic koans”
– Eyal Hareuveni, The Free Jazz Collective

“It’s refreshing when an artist dares to think so deeply about music and documents the process so others can be inspired ... a sprawling multimedia work of art that opens new vistas for the guitar and Solborg’s own music.”
 – Jakob Bækgaard, All About Jazz (US) ★★★★★ “This is convincing! Consistent! And quite obviously ambitious … remarkable and admirable.”
– Ivan Rod (DK) “Welcome to the wonderful world of a versatile creative for whom an end result is the step to the next challenge.”
 – Georges Tonla Briquet, Jazz’Halo

(B) “a highlight in Solborg’s career”
– Tor Hammerø, Nettavisen (NO) INFO The physical books are for sale at a discounted price for subscribers. 1 book - 150 DKK 2 books - 250 DKK All access tier also has access to the books in PDF format. --