Calum Builder

Builder’s anticipated 2024 release is a unique blend of contemporary classical and ambient music. Renewal Manifestation approaches the organ like a living creature - being taught to breathe and sigh. Written for organ, alto saxophone, and Crush string trio, the music brings forth an immense wave of spirit and sound that washes over the listener. As author and critic Tim Rutherford - Johnson writes (The Wire, Tempo, Positionen, Nutida Musik) : “In Renewal Manifestation, Calum Builder, an Australian saxophonist and composer residing in Copenhagen, embarks on a kind of instrumental necromancy, approaching the organ like an undead spirit – a ‘creature being taught how to breath and sigh’, as he puts it. A revenant. Like the draugr of Norse mythology or the Icelandic aptrganga (‘again-walker’), or the Celtic barrow-wight, Builder’s organ is reanimated, brought back from the dead – even if not fully back to life. Renewal Manifestation concerns stories of mystic visions and experiences that are poured out upon those who have sought communication with divine spirits...we can feel ourselves embraced at the threshold of that world, and being seduced into it.”