‘The Tingbjerg Experiment’, our collaborative score to Louise Detlefsen’s documentary about an architectural dream and its societal reality, is out on all digital platforms today.
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Musically we kept with that aforementioned dream, with the childlike joy of creation as it were, in writing the soundtrack. We messed around like kids with our toys, little keyboards and big synthesizers, recorded seemingly random bits of saxophone, flute and harp, added a pinch of 60s sci-fi, and stuck the whole thing together with bits of duct tape, whether it made sonic sense or not. Just as long as it did fit in our juvinile imagination.
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A few thank-you’s are needed - first, to Louise and her producer Malene Pedersen, for inviting us to bring our chaotic sound to your beautiful film. To Anders Banke, for not running out of breath while playing all those amazing woodwinds. To Margaret Hermant, for being a sport and recording harp to the roughest possible of sketches and still doing a great job. To Fabien Leseure, for recording the harp and giving us crap for said rough sketch. To Miklos and the Budapest Art Orchestra, for making that little bit of added strings and horns seem especially magical. To August Wanngren, for mastering the album, and bringing order to the chaos we gave you. To Anders Ladegaard for a beautiful cover, and for being so patient with us. And last but not least to little Augusta, Jonas’ daughter, for painting those gorgeous colors, visualising the music magically.
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A link to the album via your streamer of choice can be found in the bio. We hope you’ll have as much fun listening as we did making this album. End of speech.
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‘The Tingbjerg Experiment’, written and recorded together with @jonascolstrup for @louisedetlefsen ’s documentary of the same name, that premiered at CPH:DOX this year, will be out this Friday, May 15th.
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Making this music felt like the best parts of childhood, like 2 school friends creating make-belief stories with their toys in the sandbox, without any awareness of the grown-up world around them.
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To illustrate this joy further, the wonderful cover art was created by Jonas’ daughter Augusta, with the design in the expert hands of @aladegaard
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A pre-order link to this joyous bit of chaos can be found in the bio. See you Friday.
The soundtrack for ‘Let Our Mountains Live’ directed by Håvard Bustnes is out!
Vocal: Marja Mortensson Solo violin: Viktor Orri Árnason Orchestra: Budapest Art Orchestra Conductor: Peter Pejtsik
Recorded at East Connection Music Recording, Studio 22
Digital recordist: David Lukacs
Recording engineer: Gabor Buczko
Contractor/session producer: Miklos Lukacs
Orchestrator: Thomas Bryla
Score Mixer and Soundtrack Mastering: August Wanngren
Art work: Marcel Weisheit
🎶 Meet the Danish nominee for the HARPA Award! 🇩🇰🎬
We’re proud to highlight Jonas Colstrup as this year’s Danish nominee for the HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award 2026.
🌟 Nominated Score: Quisling: The Final Days by Erik Poppe
Five years of occupation during WW2 ends in Norway. Vidkun Quisling is in prison for treason and is to be held accountable for his actions. Can a priest help him find peace of mind? Can the traitor with big thoughts about himself repent?
Don’t miss a chance to watch the film on Sunday, February 15th during Nordic Film Music Days 🧡
#nordicfilmmusicdays #harpaawards #berlinale #berlinevents #filmscreenings
The Soundtrack for Erik Poppes ‘Quisling - The Final Days’ is out today!
Had the pleasure of working with some of my favorite musicians to bring this to life. A big THANKS to director Erik Poppe for trusting me through all the wild experiments we did to turn this into something special.
Soundtrack out today! August 16th
Viktor Orri Arnaldson - violin, viola and cello
Ragnar Jónsson - cello
Ian Anderson - viola
Canberk Ulaş - duduk
Budapest Art Orchestra
Orchestrator Thomas Bryla
Mixed by August Wanngren
Mastered by Stockholm Mastering
Simon Ballard (mute song) - soundtrack production
Cover by Alen Grujic
Geek alert🚨My orchestral solo album from 2022 'At the Crest' is now out in Dolby Atmos!
Atmos mix by August Wanngren, mastered by Stockholm Mastering. Out on 7K. Listen: https://7k.lnk.to/AtTheCrest
With the right setup this is like sitting inside the orchestra and such a crazy amazing way to experience music! ✨
Note: this is not a “stems up mix” but a full, from the ground up version.
Soundtrack for the mini series about the first female Prime Minister of Denmark, Helle Thorning-Schmidt. OUT TODAY! Produced by Yes Yes Pictures. Director Nille Westh. Listen where ever you get your music! #statsministerenhellethorningschmidtviaplay #hellethorningschmidt #stockholmmastering
Chinese label Soundtrack Magazine is releasing an exclusive, limited edition colored vinyl set of two soundtracks by Jóhann with Jonas Colstrup: 'Blind Massage' and 'The Shadow Play', following the sold-out CD release in 2021. The box set comes with piano sheet of selected track from 'Blind Massage'. Link in bio
‘Daughters’ single from the score to Jenifer Malmqvist beautiful film is out today! I had the pleasure of playing my old pump organ joined by Viktor Orri Árnason in the violin. Mixed by August Wanngren, mastered at Stockholm Mastering, cover by Anders Ladegaard #daugthers #wgfilm #jenifermalmqvist #pumporgan #goodcompanypictures #stockholmmastering #augustwangrenn
