{"id":15191,"date":"2017-04-29T10:55:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T15:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/?p=15191"},"modified":"2024-02-25T14:29:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T19:29:54","slug":"sara-forslund-larus-sigurdsson-and-david-ahlens-poems-of-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/sara-forslund-larus-sigurdsson-and-david-ahlens-poems-of-despair\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Forslund, Larus Sigurdsson and David Ahlen’s Poems of Despair"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Poems<\/p>\n

This breathtaking music that goes by the title Songs of Despair<\/em><\/strong>, a collaboration of Swedish artists Sara Forslund<\/a><\/strong> (Birch and Meadow<\/a><\/strong>), Larus Sigurdsson<\/a><\/strong> (composer, arranger, musician, musical instrument maker and artist) and musician David Ahlen<\/a><\/strong>, began as a pilgrimage to Jerusalem by Ahlen and artist Samuel Sander<\/a><\/strong>. Sander had the desire to create an artbook based on the biblical Book of Lamentations<\/a><\/strong>. The story is of the destruction of a city and a holy temple, and the despair of the inhabitants left in its ruins. It is also a story of people in exile in a foreign land. The project became a series of art pieces and later, this mournful, melancholy collection of songs, delicately and powerfully brought to life by world-class artists.<\/p>\n