DONNER
THE VAN GENNEP GAP

Donner’s second album, The Van Gennep Gap, is named after the Dutch-German-French ethnographer Arnold Van Gennep, the «father of liminality». The album is a series of vignettes, chronicling impressions from various places and areas in the Grenland area of south-eastern Norway where multi-instrumentalist/songwriter Jacob Holm-Lupo lives. Apart from Jacob, who handles synths, keyboards, bass, guitar, programming and percussion, the album features a few notable musical guests. Guitar virtuoso Stian Larsen, who also plays with Jacob in the jazz-funk group Solstein, plays lead guitar on two tracks. Trumpeter Jonas Vemork Kilmøy (Maridalen, Helene Bøksle) plays Grey Skies Over Stridsklev, a loving tribute to 1980s ECM jazz, while Kristoffer Momrak (Tusmørke, Alwanzatar) plays his inimitably serpentine flute on Rose Clouds of Hærøya.