Carion og Bjørn Svin at Loppen - their Wundergrund-collaboration continues at SPOT.
The SPOT Festival not only presents the hottest new acts, also present at SPOT is the more experimental approach to both the form and content of music in which genres and cultures collide and perhaps form an iconoclastic synthesis - on two fronts even:
In the autumn last year Bjørn Svin and the classical wind ensemble Carion got together to play a concert at the venue Loppen as part of the newly established Wundergrund Festival. A large part of the concert consisted of their collaborative interpretation of the composer György Ligeti’s Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet, Carion bringing their classical background – scores and music theory, etc. to the project, and Bjørn Svin his musical background: he doesn’t read music at all! Rather, he plays by ear and feels his way through the piece. Their gig was so successful both artistically and in terms of audience response that their collaboration is now going to continue at SPOT.
The Wundergrund Festival also continues – this coming fall in Copenhagen – once again organised and run by SNYK – Secretariat For Contemporary Music in collaboration with ROSA. Already at SPOT, however, there will be a mini-Wundergund with three concerts. In addition to Carion/Svin we are talking about the accordionist Frode Andersen who takes on the live-music’n’visuals jazz-rock trio Wazzabi, while the hip-hop freestyle phenomenon Per Vers and the laptop innovator Eblis Alvarez clash with ‘street classic’ ensemble Zoom. Music with no boundaries.
The set up for the three concerts will be Aarhus Kunstbygning, which will also host another series of collaborative projects at this year’s festival – namely the Sound+Literature Festival.
Aheadahead – who knows what they are up to...
You might just as well forget about the lame clichés of second rate rock and pop lyrics. Sound+Literature is at once a festival and a series of releases through Geiger Records featuring collaborative projects between musicians and writers. The ambition is to explore the boundaries of music and literature and their intersection points.
The Sound+Word acts at SPOT are Nye Rør – a collaboration between the author Mads Eslund and the musicians Anders Birk and Martin Sommer. Peter Laugesen & Singvogel are suburban rock’n’roll with winds, guitars and electricity combined with Laugesen’s superb poetry – by now a solid joint project going far back. Mikkel Modulerer Marius moves from poetry readings to rap, song, hip-hop, electronica, jazz, dub and the sounds of reality. The men behind the project are electronica musician Mikkel Meyer and writer Marius Nørp-Nielsen. Morten Søndergaard can already boast of two nominations for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize. In his collaboration with the electronic duo Schweppenhäuser/Thomsen words and notes meet in poetic disintegration! Aheadahead consists of American poetry slam champ Michale Lee Burgess and the musician Henrik Sundh. Together they conjure up an impressive and thorough hybrid music and poetry. Finally the rock band Turbulens collaborates with Janus Kodal as part of the Sound+Word series, which will also include various lectures.
BliGlad – plenty of love for the people and their affection is returned.
From the rest of the SPOT Programme there is just this piece of news which we simply have to include: BliGlad have been added to this year’s line up. The reggae collective, whose “Kærlighed til folket” (love to/for the people) has made it big in the Danish single charts and become a regular radio darling.
