Christina Sandsengen is an educated classical concert guitarist, and has performed in concert halls around the world. Solace is her debut album as a composer and the album highlights her technical skills as well as a wide range of contrasts, emotions and feelings. Sometimes dark and dramatic, then suddenly brighter and melodic. Christina says: “The classical guitar is the key to my unconscious world of emotions and thoughts, and so I put the classical guitar in the center and use different soundscapes and elements to highlight or enhance the colours and the expressions from the guitar, and I use a lot of imitation of church bells played on the guitar to capture the empty and painful feeling of a funeral.”

The album consists of 13 tracks and invites the listener on a personal musical journey from dark and light, grief, passion, and pain. The melodic language of the music are similar to Norwegian folk music. Fredrik Falk has produced the album and also contributes with piano and soundscapes. Recorded by Ole Teigen in Crowtown recordings and mastered by Kenneth Amundsen. Artwork by Nihil.

Christina Sandsengen studied classical guitar at the Norwegian Academy of Music and at the Conservatorio Superior de Música ‘Manuell Castillo’ in Spain before studying with Gérard Abiton in Paris. She has performed at the Norwegian National Opera, in Britain, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Spain, Italia, Mexico, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Japan and the USA, and she has participated in many masterclasses with leading international guitarists worldwide. In the autumn of 2014 she released her debut album, Shades & Contrasts, on Odradek Records. The album has received numerous outstanding reviews, from The Independent and Gramophone Magazine among others. She recorded Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy in legendary EastWest Studios in Los Angeles, and released a music video and single on RMN Classical later that year. In 2019 she received Akademia's prestigious and most honorable award, the ‘‘Executive Award’’ for her outstanding creativity, artistry and professional achievements in the field of music.

Tracklisting:
1. Prelude of the Ocean
2. 1991
3. Void
4. Desolation
5. Hiraeth
6. After
7. Sanctum
8. Adagio Desiderium
9. Nova
10. Solace
11. Droplets
12. To Ashes
13. No More