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In nine movements \u201dBloodhoof\u201d tells about the encounter between the god Frey and the giant-woman Gerd\u00far, two beings living in parallel worlds. Clad in jeans, folk singer Lena Willemark<\/strong> creates, with keen sensitivity, fragments from the life of a woman, filtered through the archetypical rape that wounds her heart, carving an inscription like the stabs of a flint dagger and echoing in her memory like the hoarse breath of the wild beast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skirnir on the horse Bloodhoof is the messenger sent out to win Gerd\u00far on behalf of the god. He fails with cunning \u2013 but succeeds with threats. The woman bears a child which will always remind her of the assault. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It starts with a knocking. Musically, the composer works with fragments, hints of motifs in the bass register that barely answer one another, as if the feeling doesn\u00b4t carry. A tone in the vibraphone touched lightly by a bow; a plucked string. Her voice is monotonous when Willemark\u00b4s Gerd\u00far at first lies on the floor in the foetal position, surrounded by the eight musicians in ensemble recherche<\/strong>. Monosyllabic, in terror of the horse Bloodhoof, who enters \u201dsculptured by darkness\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her voice as weak as a child’s calling for her mama through nine nights of horror. Her hand swishing before her mouth to mark the beast\u00b4s heavy breathing. Crying \u201dno!\u201d when the god presses her to eat a golden apple, at the same time as she rises up and flings the chain onto the floor. Only in the instrumental movement \u201dSpring\u201d do we recognise Rehnqvist\u00b4s lyrical side, in a duet of bird chirping and sunlight between the first violin and the flautist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is powerful and gruesome, even if a more clearly staged form, or perhaps a costume, could have reinforced Willemark\u00b4s luminous role. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dBloodhoof\u201d raises important questions: Is the assault ongoing? Or has it not yet begun? Have women’s lives ever been any different?



\u2014 Sofia Nyblom, Svenska Dagbladet \/ 6 February 2020<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Photo: Francis L\u00f6fvenholm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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