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The Sea of ​​Music, dedicated this year to Denmark, will announce at the beginning of May all the cultural special that it will carry out of the Nordic country, including besides the musical one, the programming of art, cinema and literature.
But today, the festival organized by the City of Cartagena has released the sound part of the chapter dedicated to its guest country.
The port city will welcome Whomadewho, Afenginn, Eivør, The Savage Rose, Bisse, Wangel, The Kutimangoes, Liima and Den Sorte Skole in its 24th edition.
A musical journey through the different styles of Danish music.
"Danish is a culturally very rich society with a stamp that already defines it as modern, elegant, eclectic, cultural quality falls into the irrefutable category when speaking about Denmark, everything that carries the Danish stamp as Danish design. , Danish architecture, Danish cinema, Danish pop / rock always give the confidence to be a high quality product, and of course, the quality of the musical projects that will be shown in Cartagena is very high. a tour through different styles of the Danish music scene, an eclectic program of the highest quality ", pointed out the Councilor for Culture of the City of Cartagena, David Martínez Noguera.
The WhoMadeWho Danes will be the first to appear for the Cartagena festival, Saturday, July 21.
They have become one of the most beloved electronics groups in our country thanks to their great live shows and their presence in festivals, with very fun and above all danceable live shows.
Formed in 2003, they are pioneers in what we know today as indie dance or electro indie.
They will be in the Parque Torres Auditorium in a double program with the British Morcheeba.
Kim Nyberg, a Swedish-speaking Finn, decided to perform professionally in Copenhagen for his rich musical scene.
There he formed a Balkan-inspired band with his friends.
They called their project Afenginn ("force" and "intoxication" in Old Norse).
Over the years they are one of the most international Danish folk music bands and one of the reference groups in the independent musical circuit.
Afenginn will perform on Sunday July 22 in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.
Two days later, on Tuesday, July 24, the festival will host the voice of the Faroe Islands, Eivør.
The vocalist, instrumentalist and composer possesses a voice of extraordinary beauty and power: delicate, moving and supernatural.
His music has appeared in series, games and movies such as Game of Thrones, The Last Kingdom, Deepwater Horizon, Silence and Metal Gear Survive.
Much of his musical inspiration comes from his home in the Faroe Islands, where the interpretation of traditional folk songs differs from one village to another and the children grow up in musical families.
The love for its culture and nature are deeply rooted in it, which has expanded its musical base including jazz, country, classical music, and electronics ...
The Savage Rose is one of the mythical groups of the Nordic country, one of the most important rock bands.
Last year they celebrated their fiftieth anniversary, or rather celebrated Annisette Koppel, the singer of the formation and the only one that remains since its inception.
The group is a classic revered in Denmark;
has millions of fans around the world, including Bjork.
The very name of Annisette is synonymous with integrity and honesty.
She is considered one of the most exclusive and powerful vocalists of Danish popular music.
With The Savage Rose they have been incorporating new sounds to the rock of their beginnings, they have published twenty albums and acted in the main music festivals such as Montreux or Roskilde.
They will be at La Mar de Músicas on Wednesday, July 25.
In a double program with the Spanish band La MODA on Friday, July 27, a unique musician, Bisse, will be at the Cartagena festival.
He does not look like anyone in the Danish music scene.
They compare it continuously with David Bowie or with the Danish rock star CV Jørgensen.
Transgress is his preferred verb.
Prolific its adjective;
and in just three years he has released eight albums.
He is a risk-taker.
He is an artist.
He is an innovative performer and a unique composer whose work is charged with energy.
Wildly productive, creative without artistic limits and in total synchrony with his intuition.
Bisse has already set new standards on how to be an artist in Denmark.
He is the strange boy of the Danish music that is opening the new ways.
The same Friday, the festival will also host the Danish duo Wangel.
Turned into the new light that guides the Danish electronic scene, they base their music on personal experiences, providing them with a space of refuge.
The duo invites the listener to an intimate and electronic universe, where feelings are kept to the surface.
They will also be at the festival on July 27, The KutiMangoes.
Although they sound like Africans, they are from Denmark.
They borrow West African music and merge it with their own Western musical backgrounds, creating a new sound.
His is to mix cultures to create a new global expression.
On Saturday, July 28, at the closing ceremony of the festival in the Arab Castle, Liima and Den Sorte Skole will perform.
Formed by the Finnish jazz musician Tatu Rönkkö, and several members of the Danish group Efterklang, Liima have become one of the most interesting bands on the Scandinavian scene.
This union has already launched two luminous discs with soft textures, delicate samplers ... an authentic sound kaleidoscope.
It is not easy to label with music the music that emerges from this collaborative project, and that is that they deploy their own universe in each song, with different approaches within electronic music, where influences and sonorities of the most unsuspected occur, in a sound that offers a thousand different readings.
For its part, Den Sorte Skole is a group of Danish producers and composers whose live performances are like dark symphonic trips displayed on samplers, record tables and effects machines with tons of samplers, which fly through the voices.
His compositions are a kaleidoscopic journey through the sounds of the world, giving new meaning to the concept of 'world music'.
La Mar de Músicas recently announced that Toto La Momposina, Rubén Bladés, Salvador Sobral, Morcheeba, Alba Molina singing for Lole and Manuel, Texas, Songhoy Blues, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Gregory Porter, FASHION, Fatoumata Diawara will participate in its 24th edition. , The Human League, Moy Gomar, Kuve, Poolshake, Hams with Heels, Nelida Karr, Alex Ikot, Karmacadabra and Trending Tropics, the new formation of Visitor, Calle 13, along with the Dominican singer Vicente García.
There remain forty percent of the musical programming to be known.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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