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IN GOWAN RING
In Gowan Ring is the brainchild of B'ee, a nomadic troubadour, singer/songwriter, and builder of instruments. In Gowan Ring has existed, with various guests, since the middle of the 90's, playing a richly ornamented psychedelic folk, thus pioneering the psychedelic folk revival of the 00's.
Since the beginning, In Gowan Ring has been playing a unique, baroque style, over time incoporating a simpler, song-oriented sound into their finely woven texture. Sometimes reminiscent of artists such as Pearls Before Swine, Incredible String Band, or The Legendary Pink Dots, yet In Gowan Ring remains one of the most distinct and original psychedelic folk bands around. In Gowan Ring have released four full-length albums. B'ee is also active as Birch Book, where he plays a more singer/songwriter-oriented folk, more simple with fewer layers of sound. As Birch Book, he has released three full-length albums.
Throughout his career, B'ee has been playing with a host of artists, including Maja Elliott (Current 93), Stone Breath, Nick Castro & the Young Elders, Faun, and many more. During this concert, In Gowan Ring will consist of B'ee playing with members of the highly respected Swedish progressive folk act Lisa O Piu, a band which has released two albums on the highly respected label Subliminal Sounds, as well as an album with acid folk legend Roger Wooton (Comus). They may play a few songs of their own as well!
www.myspace.com/ingowanring www.ingowanring.com
Blood on a Feather (US/DK)
Blood on a Feather is a new collaboration between American Sarah Hepburn and Danish Mikkel Elzer from Denmark. This duo travels the borders of floating, psychedelic folk and gently woven drone music with chanting veils of vocals, blooming guitarnoise and trembling tape loops.
Blood on a Feather has played two well-received shows in Copenhagen - once as the opening act at the Festival of Endless Gratitude collaborating with the American sound artist John Levin and once as a warm-up act for the British folk veteran Pantaleimon. Furthermore, Hepburn and Elzer are separately part of such wide-ranging constellations as Kloster, Shiggajon, Mouths of the Irrawaddy and Mechanical Bird.
SIMON FINN (UK)
”England’s Leonard Cohen”, major Danish newspaper Politiken once called legendary English singer/songwriter Simon Finn. While they share a sense of darkness and the melancholy, Simon Finn is quite a different sort, more psychedelic, more haunted, and much less controlled. He is one the most ferocious and expressive singers and guitarists of the singer/songwriter scene. The lyrics are meditations of regret, loss, and desperation, tinged with bitter, black humour. Artists like Nick Drake, Pearls Before Swine, Bill Fay, and Comus are references that tell something, but not all, about the musical territory Finn inhabits.
He released a single album in 1970, the strange psych-folk masterpiece “Pass the Distance”, before vanishing into obscurity. He appeared again in 2004, championed by the likes of Current 93’s David Tibet. Since then, he has released a string of ep’s (one with Comus and Ramesses III) and albums, the latest being “Through Stones” from 2011.
Live, he has shared a stage with artists such as Antony & the Johnsons, Current 93, Thurston Moore and Graham Coxon. His concerts are known to reach immense levels of intensity.
www.myspace.com/simonfinn/music www.simonfinn.co.uk
Aron (DK)
The Danish solo project Aron plays gloomy, depressive horror folk. A psychedelic trip to the darkest corners of the soul. The sound is primitive and DIY’ish, clad in lo-fi 4-track recordings and lots of echo, reverb and weird sound effects.
Aron transforms inspirations from psych, folk, punk, kraut, Swedish progg, drone, and middle-eastern music to a unique soundscape, which may be “sortsynet” and frightening, but also retains a certain dilapidated and crippled beauty, and a fragile naivety.
Sometimes Aron plays live with his backing band, The BlackBeacon Orchestra. For this concert, he will play alone. Morten Aron Larsen, the man behind Aron, also plays with legendary Danish psychedelic bands Spids Nøgenhat and On Trial. He is a former member of On Trial, and recently participated as studio musician at the highly acclaimed new album from :Of The Wand And The Moon:.
www.myspace.com/aronblackbeacon
Blood on a Feather (US/DK)
Blood on a Feather is a new collaboration between American Sarah Hepburn and Danish Mikkel Elzer from Denmark. This duo travels the borders of floating, psychedelic folk and gently woven drone music with chanting veils of vocals, blooming guitarnoise and trembling tape loops.
Blood on a Feather has played two well-received shows in Copenhagen - once as the opening act at the Festival of Endless Gratitude collaborating with the American sound artist John Levin and once as a warm-up act for the British folk veteran Pantaleimon. Furthermore, Hepburn and Elzer are separately part of such wide-ranging constellations as Kloster, Shiggajon, Mouths of the Irrawaddy and Mechanical Bird.
BLOOD AXIS
The concept for the musical project Blood Axis was initially created in the early 1990s by the musician, artist, and writer Michael Moynihan. He is joined in Blood Axis by ongoing artistic collaborators, guitarist and recording engineer Robert Ferbrache, and Annabel Lee, an accomplished violin player and artist. Other artists have also contributed to the project over the course of its existence.
The first Blood Axis album, The Gospel of Inhumanity (1996), was recorded by Moynihan and Ferbrache in 1995 and its somber, elegant tones and conceptual richness attracted considerable attention in underground art and music scenes in Europe and the United States. While this album continues to influence numerous bands who have imitated its sound and style, Blood Axis has long since evolved in new directions. Annabel Lee began working with the group in 1996.
In 1997 Blood Axis performed at a prestigious event marking the 10th anniversary celebration of the Swedish industrial label Cold Meat Industry. The resulting recording became the basis for the 1998 album Blót: Sacrifice in Sweden, which at the time was the first release by a non-Scandinavian band on the CMI label. Blood Axis has given occasional live performances over the years. These have included sporadic events in the USA in 1992 and 1998, a European tour in 1998, special concerts in Portugal in 2001 and 2008, and a small tour of Germany and Italy in 2005.
In 2010 the second full−length Blood Axis studio recording, Born Again, was released to overall acclaim among both reviewers and fans old and new. While this new album retains certain echoes of the earlier sounds of Blood Axis, it defies easy categorization and represents a bold development in many respects.
This is the first appearance ever by Blood Axis in Copenhagen, and the set at this concert will include new and old material.
Vinyl editions of THE GOSPEL OF INHUMANITY and BORN AGAIN will be available for sale. ULTIMACY, a giant compilation of Blood Axis singles will available as well.
The line−up at this concert will be: Michael Moynihan, Annabel Lee, Robert Ferbrache, David E. Williams (keyboards), Aaron Garland (bass), and John Murphy (percussion). Members of Blood Axis on this tour have also worked with people and bands such as 16 Horsepower, Alraune, Amber Asylum, The Associates, Backworld, Birch Book, Club Moral, Cotton Ferox, Coup de Grâce, Current 93, Douglas P./Death in June, The Electric Hellfire Club, Ernte, Fire + Ice, Human Head Transplant, In Gowan Ring, Les Joyaux de la Princesse, Richard Kern, The Lindbergh Baby, Nico, Boyd Rice/NON, Rozz Williams, Sangre Cavallum, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Soul Merchants, SPK, Steve von Till, Tarantella, The The, Trance, Verdandi, The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Waldteufel, Witch−Hunt, Woven Hand.
www.bloodaxis.com/
DAVID E. WILLIAMS
At the concert in Copenhagen, David E. Williams will be joined onstage by Jane Elizabeth of Tesco as backing vocal.
This "Lee and Nancy of new millennium" concert in Copenhagen is the only David E. Williams concert in europe in 2011, thou he does participate as a member of the band at all Blood Axis concerts in europe 2011.
Though he's dabbled in neo-Weimar cabaret, abrasive electronics and even film scores, David E. Williams of Phillidelphia, United States of America is best known for electro-symphonic pop and a lyrical humor so dark that it's not really funny. Some might call it gallows humor, but "gas chamber humor" is a bit more accurate for his love songs rife with murder, abuse and obscure references to eating.
Beyond his solo work, he has collaborated with a diverse spectrum of underground luminaries that includes Bleiburg (martial ambient), Deathpile (power electronics), Naevus (post punk / folk noir), Nazi UFO Commander (Neuschwabender trance), Thomas Nola (decadent music hall) and, most famously, Rozz Williams, the former Christian Death lead singer for whom Williams arranged and produced the posthumous live CD Accept the Gift of Sin.
Purchase of all David E. William releases are available at iTunes Store.
www.davidewilliams.comDIE WEISSE ROSE
These performances are elaborate rituals, kaleidoscopic (or even psychedelic) experiences. Elements such as uniforms, burning torches, snippets of old schlägers, segments from documentary films and philosophical proclamations are wowen together by orgies of live drums and electronic sounds.
Die Weisse Rose strives towards what Wagner called "Gesamtkunstwerke" − total works of art. When most other bands talk about Gesamtkunstwerke, it sounds pretentious. When Die Weisse Rose do it, it makes sense.
Die Weisse Rose also like to think of their songs as "audiodocumentaries". Again, such a seemingly pretentious term makes sense, as Die Weisse Rose's art is just as indebted to the History Channel as to Throbbing Gristle.
To bolster Die Weisse Rose's lineup (which really consists only of the band's mastermind, Thomas Bøjden) over the years the unit has recruited collaborators to its ranks that makes DWR smack of an Industrial supergroup. From Marco Deplano (Foresta di Ferro), Gerhard (Allerseelen), Kim Larsen (Of the Wand and the Moon) to name but a few.
In return, Thomas Bøjden has returned the favour and played with a who's who of of the Industrial and Neofolk underground, from well-established outfits like Rome, Blood Axis and Foresta Di Ferro to up-and-coming Austrian neofolk band Klammheim.
Die Weisse Rose are available on record with a realse on Cold Meat Industry, and also participate at the new Allerseelenlieder Compilation.
If you fear that we have another "martial" clone band on our hands, prepare to be pleasantly surprised. The music is painstakingly crafted and orchestrated to perfection to include electronic elements, field recordings and real instruments, and its creative merits really stand out in an underground culture where bands of far lesser talents than Die Weisse Rose would release three albums in the time Die Weisse Rose have patiently worked on theirs.
www.myspace.com/dieweisserose
TRAVEL AND TRANSPORT TO LYGTEN, COPENHAGEN
"Lygten" is very near to Nørrebro S−Train station, be aware that is not the same station as Nørreport S−Train Station.
Link to homepage with picture of "Lygten": www.kubik.kk.dk/lygten
Link to map where the place of "Lygten" is pointed: MAP
Link to public trafic: MOVIA PUBLIC TRANSPORT
There is a metroline from airport to central Copenhagen (app. 20 minuts), shift to bus 5A or 350S at Nørreport Station will bring you to Lygten in app. 15 minuts − it is easy to know when you are at the right place, it is the only place where the bus drive below a bridge. Bus 5A also drive from Central Trainstation (Hovedebanegarden) as well as Central Place (Rådhus Pladsen).
Copenhagen Airport is a large airport with connection to most of the world: http://www.cph.dk
However there is also another airport near by, that is Malmö/Sturup Airport, where you can use www.wizzair.com to/from some eastern europe destinations, and www.ryanair.com to/from Spain. Malmö/Sturup is either about a 1 hour busdrive away from Copenhagen or by bus to Malmö and then train/bus from there to Copenhagen (about 2 hours).
BRING ALONG YOUR DRINKING HORN
At the bar you can buy mead, and your are welcome to bring your own drinking horn if you want to drink mead from it at the concert.
The bar will also serve absinth, beer and soft drinks.