Vanessa Amara – You’re Welcome Here

Tracklist

Arranged By – Birk Gjerlufsen Nielsen, Victor Kjellerup Juhl
Bells – Lars Sømod Jensen
Cello – Christoffer Hentzer Dausgaard
Organ – Henning Nielsen*
Trombone – Malthe Kjellerup Juhl
Violin – Emma Kragh-Elmøe

Limited to 500 copies

In Autumn of 2014 Birk Gjerlufsen and Victor Kjellerup made their vinyl debut as Vanessa Amara on Posh Isolation with the sister recordings ‘Both of Us’ and ‘King Machine.’ The pair’s new album, ‘You’re Welcome Here,’ realises the immense potential of these previous efforts.

Built around church organ, string quartet, tapes and synthesizers, the seven pieces that make up ‘You’re Welcome Here’ are immediately, though not forcefully, arresting.

Gjerlufsen and Kjellerup’s new work is denser though it posseses a greater fragility than their previous efforts, with the compositional depth and carefully executed production of ‘You’re Welcome Here’ setting a new standard for their work under the guise of Vanessa Amara and a new standard for Scandinavian experimental composition.

‘You’re Welcome Here’ is as intimidating as it is beautiful; an emotive rendering of Gjerlufsen and Kjellerup’s musical finesse.