Minru is the project of Caroline Blomqvist. The debut album from the Scandinavian revels in its space, with jazz and orchestral flourishes to its warm folk-ish spectral pop. Liminality is out now on Morr Music.
Built around winding layers of acoustic guitar, piano, and strings, Minru is a surprisingly uplifting and stirring testament to Blomqvist’s own suffering from the passing of someone close to her.
“I read that Carl Jung used the word “Liminality” to describe the psychological process of transitioning. I instantly felt seen; it reflected my own experience and the feelings I carried whilst making the album – a sense of the old certainties being gone, but the new not being quite there yet,” she says.
While the feelings of grief, confusion, and pain influence her music, her observations and documenting of this period in music and film have become part of that healing process.
Watch her performing “Light End” with Povel Widestrand on keys and Sunniva Lilian Shaw Of-Tordarroch on cello and backing vocals.
Taken from “Liminality” out on Morr Music (July 1st 2022). Order LP/CD: https://linktr.ee/minru
More here: https://www.minrumusic.com/