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Awake, my Soul, and Sound your Strings  - 
Released November 2012
Faroese music for guitar performed by Ólavur Jakobsen
Credits:
Recording engineers: Pól Jakobsen and Jónas Bloch
Music producer: Sunleif Rasmussen
Editing: Tróndur Bogason and Jónas Bloch
Mixing and Mastering: Mikkel Nymand
Cover art and graphics: Uni Árting
Executive producer: Ólavur Jakobsen
Guitar maker José Marin Plazuelo
Liner text: Hans Pauli W. Tórgarð
English translations:  Fiona Parker and Daniel Rye
Label:  TUTL Records


The guitar is an instrument with a rich palette of sounds. The strings can sing, whisper and resonate - and the timbres are exceptionally varied, depending on where one plays on the instrument. Even the body or soundboard can be used as percussion.

The music on this album exploits this variety and explores a broad musical territory, with regard to both time and genre.

It is also rooted in the Faroes: not only music written by Faroese composers, but music with subtle extra-musical connections to the culture and history of the islands.  



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Ólavur Jakobsen 
The release of this album in November 2012 was received by rave reviews in the international guitar press:

a premium grade offering ..... an assured and stylish guitarist ...... and could I retrospectively make this album my pick of 2012?"
Paul Fowles

… die Seele der Färöer-Inseln …
… außerordentlich überzeugender Diplomat für die Musik seiner Heimat …
Dr. Peter Päffgen

This is really an unusual album with a great musical span and a musician with more on his mind than just to entertain. Ólavur plays with an intensity and a presence that affects you deeply"
Guitaren No. 3
Ólavur is able to move in musical time and style. Maybe it's his musical background that has strengthened his flexibility in both guitar playing and musicals expression, along with training and focused work that makes Ólavur Jakobsen something very special"