Did you know, that illegal sand mining is a 2bn dollar industry in India? Not sure where to go from there, but luckily German trio Ilgen-Nur are here to provide some fresh tunes. Carried by banging riffs, Ilgen’s powerful yet delicate voice tells stories of bags under your eyes and the struggle to stay awake, the struggle to leave the nest. The three of them just released a debut EP coldly titled No Emotions on Sunny Tapes, and have lined up not one but two shiny live dates for the occasion. This Saturday 20 May at Hamburgs Molotow, and the next day at Berghain Kantine in fair old Berlin. Listening through that EP makes you think, this is one to be seen performing live. Team Poule says, this one is gonna go lengths.
Lush melodies and mellow beats, just what you need around this time of the year. Stockholm’s foreverandever has got you covered and just released So Guud, a dreamy piece of a song in collaboration with the beautiful Summer Heart. The two of them create properly driving synths and a banging space odyssey of a track. The song comes off his upcoming EP Late Walk/Spacewalk that is out June 9th. Team Poule says, so pleasing this.
Photo credit go to Hilda Bordahl.
Aarhus, Denmark’s second city, first weekend of May, SPOT Festival and a celebration of new and rising Danish and international talents. It has long become an annual tradition at Camp Poule to travel to the creative hub that is Aarhus and take a deep dive into the scene. This year, with Aarhus being a European Capital of Culture for 2017, you could feel they really wanted to put the cat among the pigeons. A few extra venues thus expanded the festival map and numerous concerts were placed at places like Dokk1 – Aarhus’ public library that opened in 2015 and largest in Scandinavia, the Dome Of Visions – a temporary two-story wood and glass, well, dome in Aarhus Ø which is a new and growing quarter of Aarhus that is being constructed by the expansion of the habour area, and ARoS – the Aarhus art museum with its iconic rainbow panorama sky walk. [continue reading…]
Mighty SPOT Festival is juuust around the corner and the City of Aarhus is busy getting ready for the hordes of music industry natives. Another rich gem in the wealthy line-up are Copenhagen duo Sherpa. They will showcase their smooth pop melodies and driving vocals on two occasions: Atlas on Saturday afternoon as part of the talent-laden Karrierekanonen series, and later that night at Aarhus Volume. For a glimpse of what is to come, try this. And if you think, well it would be so nice if they played in Copenhagen, you are in luck! Sherpa are going to play support for Wangel at Lille Vega, May 20th.
Another piece of Danish pop’ness comes in the form of Mantua. The trio is somewhat of a supergroup by Shakespearean dimension with members of Turboweekend, Veto and Duné. Lush indie pop, after all. Sherpa and Mantua, Team Poule says, get behind that.
This weekend, Aarhus, SPOT Festival. 3 days of action packed and talent infused concerts and shows. In a mad line up of newcomers and household names, Team Poule would like to point you in the direction of THANKS, a duo of former Alphabeat members Anders Bønløkke and Anders Stig Ghert. They are going to play Friday night, 90s inspired and energetic. Attached below is Dizzy, their banging single from last summer. Team Poule says, we have a liftoff.
SPOT Festival in Aarhus is drawing closer and closer. May 4 to 7 will see Denmark’s second biggest city play host to the hottest mostly Danish and Scandinavian musical talents, sharing the stages around the music school. A ripe blueberry on the line-up comes in the form of Kalaha, a team of four, connecting producers Rumpistol and Spejderrobot with drummer Emil de Waal and guitarist Niclas Knudsen. The catching result is a refreshing blend of electronics and jazz. They have an absolutely mad album out called Masala, get behind this. And one to be enjoyed live, they play Ridehuset on Friday night. Team Poule says, gonna be heavy weight this one.
