Nidarosdomen

Description

When putting three fine exponents of modern, forward-thinking and experimental music in the same room, the hope is that something a little special is going to be the result. YODOK III are exactly that, all three recognizable by their contribution and yet forced to go beyond that by the other two. YODOK III is primarily a study in the avant-garde, but elements of genres as diverse as jazz, (post)rock and even classical can be heard playing their part in this mind-bending tapestry. At the heart of Trondheim rises Nidarosdomen: Scandinavia's great cathedral, the northernmost Gothic monument of the Middle Ages, built upon the resting place of Saint Olav. Within its stone walls breathes the colossal Steinmeyer organ, 9,600 pipes of air and thunder. A space made not only for prayer, but for ritual. When YODOK III was invited to perform in this sacred colossus, the idea of summoning Petra Bjorkhaug to the Steinmeyer organ arrived like an inevitability. To let the cathedral itself speak through her hands, to allow its immensity to swell and entwine with YODOK III's shifting tides of sound. This album is the document of that night. An audience seated sideways beneath vaulted arches - for no one may turn their back on the cross - witnessed a music that slowly transfigured. YODOK III became something more, something larger: a dialogue between trio, organ, and cathedral. It is a testament not only to sound, but to presence, reverberation, and the living breath of Nidarosdomen itself.