 | | Nanna Øland performs with Lyngby-Taarbæk Symphony Orchestra. PHOTO: Thorsten Overgaard. |
SPOT Festival got kicked of this year with a few complications. But the hopes where high, and so was the quality of the performances.
It was going to be a ‘unique experience’ as Gunner Madsen, the main figure behind the SPOT Festival put it, when he introduced the second act in queue, during the opening of the festival.
The newly built symphonic hall in Aarhus was slowly, but securely filled, with people, and even though the time schedule was slightly pressed, they managed to kick off in time.
At 21.00 the orchestra entered the stage, and started their languid tuning, as the audience found their places, and got ready for the forthcoming concert with ’Oh Land and the Lyngby-Taarbæk symphonic orchestra’. As the petit blond girl, with her eye catching rhinestone hair band and light black shoulder strapped dress entered the stage, the audience grew silent and the concert started to seep through mind and ear.
The beautiful birch tree veneer, and the harmonic balance that is mirrored in the dampened lighting, mixed in perfectly with Nanna Øland-Fabricius captivating vocals and brought the room and people together creating a unique experience.
It was clear that the re-arrangement Ravel's passionate melodies, with the accompaniment of the soloist’s sensual voice and sensitive songs, captivated the audience, and remedied all the evening’s earlier delays.
It was something new that revealed itself that evening, a wonderful synergy between the classical, rhythmical and popular music. And the variety of in the compositions was felt, as we where swayed carefully into the fairytale world of the first songs, to be suddenly dragged out again, as the music changed character and became more aggressive and the signing switched over to a darker, almost R&B feel.
So the experience was something different for the audience, it was a slight tremor in the conventional universe of music, a change of atmosphere that suited the newly built surroundings. But it was also a display of the variety and talent of the Danish music scene, a display of the music’s quality and depth.
And so the festival got it’s wings, and took off to a good start
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