Revelations of Divine Love Susanne Sundfør & Kit Downes

• 1 A Revelation of Love 00:30
• 2 I It Am 02:42
• 3 For He Standeth All Alone 03:47
• 4 Hazelnut 01:37
• 5 What Are We 03:44
• 6 One High Love 04:07
• 7 Vision 01:42
• 8 Overcome 03:47
• 9 The Blessed Wounds 04:19
• 10 Seven Nights Dead 01:28
• 11 Charity 06:44
• 12 All Shall Be Well 04:07
• 13 Love Was Our Lord's Meaning 01:55
• Total Runtime 40:29

Info for Revelations of Divine Love

Susanne Sundfør's new album, "Revelations of Divine Love", is a work born of spiritual curiosity, creative kinship, and a deep fascination with the ancient and the transcendent. Written in collaboration with British jazz pianist and organist Kit Downes, the album was recorded in the hushed, reverberant atmosphere of Bragernes Kirke in Norway in November 2024 — a setting that lends the record an intimate, almost sacred stillness. The album was mixed and mastered by Jørgen Træen.

The album takes its title from the landmark 14th-century mystical text by Julian of Norwich — the first book known to have been written in English by a woman. Sundfør encountered Julian's writing around the same time she and Downes were performing together in churches in 2024, and the timing felt fated. Drawn to the text's extraordinary themes of hope, resilience, and its quietly radical feminine perspective, she found in Julian's words a natural spiritual and artistic continuation from her acclaimed 2023 album Blomi. The connection felt so immediate and profound that she invited Downes to join her as a full collaborator on the project.

Sundfør first encountered Julian while reading about medieval women whose voices had been erased from history. She found herself captivated not only by Julian’s extraordinary story but by the radical tenderness of her theology. The album is hymnal, hypnotic and deeply human. While it echoes classical music, jazz and the traditions of Scandinavian sacred music, it ultimately exists in a space entirely its own, an immersive, spellbinding work that transforms medieval mysticism into something startlingly contemporary.

Kit Downes – a Mercury Prize nominee and BBC Jazz Award winner – co-composed the score with Sundfør and selected the Norwegian church whose organ became the album’s second voice. Together they embraced a philosophy of immediacy: close-miked vocals, mostly single takes and performances that privileged presence over perfection. The album unfolds like a meditation.

“Traditionally, vocals accompanied by an organ are powerful and loud,” says Sundfør. “I wanted the opposite—soft, whispered, as understated as possible. It’s about authenticity, not perfection. It had to be playful and whimsical.”

For more than two decades, Susanne Sundfør has consistently reinvented herself. Since emerging as one of Scandinavia’s most singular musical voices she has built a career defined by fearless transformation, moving effortlessly between electronic pop, orchestral grandeur, experimental composition and intimate songwriting. Her albums, including breakthrough ‘The Silicone Veil’ (featuring the incredible ‘White Foxes’), ‘Ten Love Songs’ and ‘Music for People In Trouble’, have garnered critical acclaim throughout the world, topped the Norwegian charts, earned multiple Norwegian Grammy Awards, and established her as an artist equally at home collaborating with the likes of Röyksopp or M83, as she is writing deeply personal records entirely her own.

Susanne Sundfør, vocals
Kit Downes, organ
Jørgen Træen, electronic treatments
Marta Warelis, additional organ

Recorded at Bragernes Kirke, Drammen Norway. Lady Lazar
Engineered by Jørgen Træen
Mixed and mastered by Jørgen Træen at Duper luftgrotten
Produced by Jørgen Træen, Kit Downes, and Susanne Sundf

Susanne Sundfør
Norwegian musician Susanne Sundfør is one of the many singer-songwriters active today. Born on March 19, 1986, in Haugesund, she has already garnered several Norwegian awards in her young career and is considered a rising star in her home country.

Susanne Sundfør performs both jazz and classical music, blending the two styles in her own inimitable way to create something entirely new. Following the albums *Susanne Sundfør*, *Take One*, and *The Brothel*, she released her fourth studio album, *The Silicone Veil*, in 2012. She usually accompanies herself on the piano during concerts. Although she also plays the guitar, she rarely does so during live performances.

Contemporary critics often compare Susanne Sundfør to musicians like Carole King. While Sundfør acknowledges in interviews that she was inspired by King, she also cites other artists such as Ane Brun, Thomas Dybdahl, Fleetwood Mac, and Jeff Buckley as influences. Her lyrics often draw on personal experiences—as seen in the song "It’s All Gone Tomorrow" from the album *The Brothel*—though she also addresses societal themes in tracks like "Opium."

Susanne Sundfør has also been honored with the Spellemannprisen. This award is one of the most important in Norway and is considered the equivalent of the Grammy.

Kit Downes
is a BBC Jazz Award and Deutscher Jazzpreis winning, Mercury Music Award nominated, ECM recording artist, composer and performer. He has toured the world playing piano and church organ with leading artists from the classical and jazz idioms, and his compositions have been performed by Riot Ensemble, Abel Selaocoe, Klang Ensemble, Heloise Werner, Scottish Ensemble, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, St Paul’s Orchestra in Minneapolis, and HR Radio Band in Frankfurt, at venues such as the Cologne Dom, Rewire Festival, BBC Proms, Toulouse Organ Festival, Stavanger Konserthus, London Contemporary Music Festival and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

An organ scholar at St Peter Mancroft in Norwich whilst growing up, he graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he lived for 20 years. He is now living in Berlin, and performs solo pipe organ and with own ensembles (ENEMY, Exhaust and Snap II) while developing a composition practice that is informed by, and inspired by, his broad ranging collaborators. These artists include Lucy Railton, Norma Winstone, Squarepusher, Bill Frisell, Susanne Sundfjør, Andrew Cyrille, Sofia Jernberg, Mica Levi, Aidan O’Rourke and Sam Amidon.

Kit holds a Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he himself studied and now teaches. He has twice been awarded 1st place in Downbeat’s Critics Poll Rising Star for Organ and Keyboard categories respectively, been awarded the Paul Acket Award at North Sea Festival, and his ECM records ‘Obsidian', ‘Dreamlife of Debris' and ‘Vermillion' have been released to critical acclaim.

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