Renewal Manifestation is written for organ, alto saxophone and CRUSH String Collective. It treats the pipe organ as an unstable mechanical force.

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.
– author and critic Tim Rutherford-Johnson


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

Recorded and Mixed by Simon Mariegaard
Mastered by Sam Nacht at Estudio Libres
Produced by Calum Builder & Simon Mariegaard
Released on Dacapo Records DAC-LP013 (2024)