The music of Minru captures the glow of the morning sun warming up the forest, and wraps its listeners in a feeling that will stay with them as they walk around the world. Her blend of folk and indie rock sounds like music woven from light and shadow, with the interplay between them casting dancing patterns as the songs come to life. It wakes something in the listener, the rare sense of experiencing something musically special that makes the noise outside the song fade away, and leaves you immersed in its magical world.

Minru is the project of Caroline Blomqvist, a Swedish musician from Gothenburg, and music came into her life when she picked up a guitar as a kid and became obsessed with learning to play it, even skipping school to spend extra hours mastering the instrument. After attending music high school and playing around in a few bands in her hometown in her teens, she moved to Berlin, and it was in the German capital that music took a step up in seriousness for her, as she became a guitarist in different bands and toured across Europe. After a while, she began to feel the urge to express herself musically and find an outlet for her own songs, and that made for the beginnings of Minru.

In 2022, Minru's debut LP Liminality was released via the German record label Morr Music. The title describes the threshold state after breaking away from the prevailing order, i.e. the dissolution of the security and stability of the past. Built up from winding layers of acoustic guitar, piano, and strings, the result is beautifully lush and rich like the folk of her Swedish roots.  

Photo credit: Alicja Bakalarska