Resonate #7: Excelsior + Karen Juhl I HUSET 07.09.22

RESONATE is Copenhagen's newest deep listening, immersive, audio-visual concert series.

The 7th edition presents Excelsior + Karen Juhl

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Doors: 20.00
Show: 21.00
Admission: 120 kr. / Student discount: 60 kr
TICKETS: https://bit.ly/3Reve5u
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EXCELSIOR
Bag ved den musikalske persona Excelsior står den danske komponist, producer og sanger Anja T. Lahrmann.
Excelsior udgav debutalbummet ’O Horizon’ i 2019, som opnåede fine anmeldelser i blandt andet Passive/Aggressive og Information.

Den 26. august er Excelsior klar med albummet ’Fit For Fiction’ - et hybridt og eksperimenterende popunivers, hvor Excelsior synger poetisk om naturens ro og kvindefortællinger gennem kulturhistorien.

Singlerne “Ghost” og “Gold Runs”, er spillet på P6 Beat og omtalt i Soundvenues Top Tracks og Bands of Tomorrow.

Stemmen er ofte et knudepunkt i Lahrmanns værker. Hun tilgår komposition som narrative sekvenser, hvori vokale strukturer, melodiske linjer og akkordprogressioner udfolder sig sideløbende med digitale kæder og
processering, som var det svungne stier i et landskab.

I en åben pendulering mellem kollektivisme og DIY ser Lahrmann i højere grad sig selv som musiker i gennem samarbejder, end som frontfigur.

Live er Excelsior derfor en flydende størrelse og det musikalske setup favner både solo-performances såvel
som større, udvidede bandkonstellationer.

KAREN JUHL
Skiftevis syngende, talende og rappende forener Karen Juhl i sine sange det helt kropsligt nære med globale begivenheder. Med lige dele kærlighed til r’n’b, eksperimenterende komposition og litteratur udforsker hun hvad sangkunst kan være i det 21. århundrede inspireret af kunstnere som Laurie Anderson, Solange og Holly Herndon.
På scenen foldes universet ud med laptop, synthesizer og elektroniske trommer. Debut-koncerten på SPOT Festival blev af Soundvenue kåret som én af de 10 bedste koncerter og blev af samme udnævnt som én af de mest lovende danske kunstnere.

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ENGLISH

EXCELSIOR
Anja T. Lahrmann is a Danish composer, producer and musician performing as Excelsior since 2015. She released her debut EP Superimposed in 2017 followed by the album O Horizon in 2019.

The 26th of August her new release Fit For Fiction hits the internet; a progressive and hybrid pop world full of songs about surrender, the calm of nature and tales about women throughout our cultural history.

The voice is often the heart of Lahrmann’s body of work. She approaches composition as narrative sequences in which vocal structures, melodic lines and chords unfold alongside chains of digital processing like small paths in a landscape.

Having developed her musical persona by positioning herself amongst varying constellations of musicians, she tends to see herself more as a collaborator than a frontwoman bouncing openly against the borders of collectivism and DIY.

KAREN JUHL
Karen Juhl is a songwriter and artist based in Copenhagen. Under her former artist name KHAN, she released the audiovisual work OCCUPY via the prestigious British blog the 405.
In January she released her debut EP ‘Endless’; a mixed media hybrid called “an incredible piece of experimental pop touching the listener and simultaneously expanding the limits of sound creation” by Metal Magazine.

About the Endless, she says:
“Endless emerged out of a need to explore the digitalized world streaming on and a life that just seems to float along.” The songs have aired on both Danish National Radio and abroad. The visual part of the work can be found on her homepage.

With equal parts love for r’n’b, experimental composition and literature, Juhl explores what songwriting can be in the 21st Century - inspired by artists like Laurie Anderson, Solange and Holly Herndon. On stage her create universe unfolds as a deconstructed club performance with live drums, synthesizer, guitar, and laptop.

Karen Juhl has previously been nominated as one of the most promising Danish artists by magazine Soundvenue. In addition to Endless, she is working on her debut album. In other words, there are good reasons to keep an eye on Karen Juhl.