Introducing Christina Sandsengen

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Guitarist and songwriter Christina Sandsengen hails from Norway where she blends and crosses genres between Classical and Metal (Death Metal & Norwegian Black Metal). Her latest album SOLACE is inspired by metal and contains elements of metal musical themes done in a folk/classical style. These dark feelings of sorrow, pain, and anxiety are channeled through her portrait guitar by Connor Guitar that created custom for her. Inspired by Norwegian fjords and the ocean, the patterns on the guitar mimic waves made by a special machine at MIT.

"Of course, SOLACE means comfort in a time of sadness or despair. But with these compositions, I don't only mean to comfort. I also mean to give sound to sadness and despair itself-and fury, shock and anguish. With my guitar, and with layers of drums and piano and broom sticks and fire, I want here to unfold the many layers of my perseverance. I want to make a raw, honest portrait of that feeling of trembling, tumbling-when something almost mythical takes hold of your chest, so you are hardly able to breathe. But when I was a girl, I discovered that my guitar can breathe for me, that it can make a language beneath language, for a resonance that travels from fingertip right to the bone. I hope you feel here, as I do, the fragments of relief-and, yes, solace." - Christina
Listen to the album and all its moods below: