International drummer Emil De Waal, electronic artist Spejderrobot and the big band Aarhus Jazz Orchestra will join forces at the SPOT Festival in May and give a unique performance across music genres and worlds.
In a great musical interplay the three acts will take on the legendary German group Kraftwerk’s electronic universe. A universe, which has spawned big hits such as “Autobahn”, “Tour de France”, “Die Roboter” and “Das Modell” – and been a source of inspiration for many artists and bands – including Emil de Waal, who has previously collaborated with the Japanese noise musician Kato Hideki and the American composer Wayne Horvitz, and who has now embarked on this interpretation of Kraftwerk’s oeuvre.
– Kraftwerk’s music has set the style for contemporary and later bands. It is groundbreaking and monumental and therefore also intimidating to take on. We’ll throw caution to the wind, however, because we feel that exactly in this constellation we can bring something new to Kraftwerk’s music and give it an alternative dimension that will point forward for jazz, electronic music and the border-breaking collaborative projects in in all kinds of art.
Songwriter collaboration with the Nordklang Festival
In addition to the unique concert featuring Emil de Waal, Spejderrobot and Aarhus Jazz Orchestra, the SPOT Festival 2014 is happy to announce another exciting project.
For the first time the festival presents the songwriter concept “Nordklang Sessions” in collaboration with Swiss Nordklang Festival.
Nordklang Sessions consists of ten songwriters from Denmark Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Switzerland, who on a five-day songwriter camp in the beautiful surroundings of Swiss town St. Gallen are to write and produce new songs together.
The camp will take place from the 10th February and will conclude with a performance at the Nordklang Festival in St. Gallen on the 15th of February. Later they will be in Denmark at the SPOT Festival on the 2nd and 3rd of May to present the new material.
