Tirill Mohn

Discography

Three Love Songs and a Swan Song

Said the Sun to the Moon

“One of the most beautiful, enrapturing albums I’ve ever heard, flowing seemlessly, sucking the listener in from its first notes and then spitting one out at the end limp yet refreshed. Like Sirens enticing and entrapping sailors on the Mediterranean, the vocal duet arrangements and performances of Tirill and Julie Kleive are stunning and totally beguiling. The use of traditional folk instrumentation throughout is also planned meticulously and pulled off flawlessly.
94.44 on the Fishscales = A/five stars; a masterpiece of prog folk and one of the best albums of 2019 and one of the finest prog folk albums of all-time.”
– Andrew Fisher

Release date, October 18th 2019

Um himinjǫður

Um himinjǫður vinyl

“Joy! A third solo album by Tirill Mohn, only two years after Nine and Fifty Swans! And this one is a gem of tenderness, a collection of delicately-arranged folk songs inhabiten by the sensual vocals of Tirill and her trusty sideman Jan Tariq Rui-Rahman. In terms of songwriting, this opus feels closer to Tales from Tranquil August Gardens, with better defined, catchier melodies than Nine and Fifty Swans. I can’t point to highlights after one listen: all the songs would qualify. But I admit I lose all objectivity when Tirill sings… ”
– François Couture, All Music Guide

Release date November 30th 2013

Nine and Fifty Swans

Nine and Fifty Swans

“W.B. Yeats’ poems are rooted in place and time but they sigh for eternity. The music on this cd, as warm and palpable as it is ethereal and evocative, complements them superbly.  Unearthly and delicate, sensuous and vulnerable, Tirill’s voice glimmers on the margin between world and otherworld, as haunting and seductive to the ear as the sight of the girl he pursued forever after was to the eye of Wandering Aengus. It is a voice that calls us as if by name and brings almost within reach the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun.”
– Patrick Crotty, Penguin Book of Irish Poetry

Release date CD October 2011. Vinyl reissue November 30th 2013

Tales from Tranquil August Gardens

“Tales from Tranquil August Gardens is a silent album, yet it’s so intense that you can close your eyes and easily imagine the artist sitting next to you – maybe at a hidden place in the August Gardens – and playing her breathtakingly beautiful songs. The first eight tunes undoubtedly embody the sound of “Norwegian melancholy”. All songs are created with deep love and with seldom carefulness, thus it makes little sense to explain that Tirill plays some kind of easeful folk music if you don’t add how she and her gorgeously talented guest musicians present her songs. It’s indeed shadowy music, but in those shadows the listener’s imagination might travel upon so far unknown pathways well worth to discover. I lack the right words to describe the much more than fascinating character of her music, yet I can only give you the advice to accept Tirill’s invitation for this intimate meeting…”
– Thor Wanzek, Trollmusic


Release date October 2011

A Dance with the Shadows

“Tirill’s music is full of light and shadow, from sun gilded meadows to firelight dancing off the trees at the deep heart of the darkened forest. At once contemporary and ancient, earthy and grounded and ethereal and otherworldly, joyous and sorrowful, deeply emotional and stirringly cerebral. Tirill’s acoustic guitar work is classical in influence as well as rooted in folk musics and Scandinavian melodies, at times recalling some of the playing of Duncan Browne and Nick Drake. Her violin work is sublime and lyrical and her voice is nothing short of angelic! She is backed by some amazing musicians making her music truly an experience. Whilst incorporating neo classical, folk, progressive and even gothic elements she has created a lovely netherworld all it s own!”
– Michael Piper, The Wild Places

This CD is now out of production, but has been re-released under the new title “Tales from Tranquil August Gardens”, as shown above. As well as containing the original tracks, there are three bonus tracks on this release.

Release date December 2003