Renewal Manifestation

Coming out on Dacapo Records — April 19, 2024

Renewal Manifestation approaches the organ like a living creature — being taught to breathe and sigh. Written for organ, alto saxophone, and CRUSH string trio, this music brings forth an immense wave of spirit and sound that washes over the listener.

Author and critic Tim Rutherford - Johnson writes about the release:
“In Renewal Manifestation, Calum Builder, an Australian saxophonist and composer residing in Copenhagen, embarks on a kind of instrumental necromancy, approaching the organ like an undead spirit – a ‘creature being taught how to breath and sigh’, as he puts it. A revenant. Like the draugr of Norse mythology or the Icelandic aptrganga (‘again-walker’), or the Celtic barrow-wight, Builder’s organ is reanimated, brought back from the dead – even if not fully back to life. Renewal Manifestation concerns stories of mystic visions and experiences that are poured out upon those who have sought communication with divine spirits...we can feel ourselves embraced at the threshold of that world, and being seduced into it.”

Calum Builder Compositions/Alto Saxophone
Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen Organ
CRUSH String Collective
Maria Jagd Violin
Pauline Hogstrand Viola
Oda Dyrnes Cello