Adjuntamos la nota de Prensa del Especial Dinamarca en el
Festival y el programa completo del mismo:
La Mar de Músicas Festival is honoured to present Denmark as
this year guest country with a special program devoted to Danish culture. 9
music bands, 18 visual artist, 4 writers and 10 movies from Denmark will be the
spotlight with a wire range of music, art, literature and cinema activities.
Main concerts will be performed by main bands such as Whomadewho, Afenginn,
Eivør, The Savage Rose, Bisse, Wangel, The Kutimangoes, Liima and Den Sorte
Skole.
Danish
band WhoMadeWho will be in charge
of opening the Festival on July the 21st.
WhoMadeWho has
become one of the best well known electronic bands in Spain thanks to its great
live sessions and its precence at Spanish festivals, with fun and danceable
performances. Established in 2003, WhoMadeWho are pioneers in dance and electro
indie music and will perform at the Parque Torres Auditorium in a doble session
with the British band Morcheeba.
Kym Nyberg, a Finnish-Sweedish, decided to built a career in
Copenhagen, due to its rich musical panorama. There in Copenhagen, and with
some friend, he found a band with Balcan influences. They call their project Afenginn
wich means “strenght” and “intoxication” in the nordic old languages. Now they
are one of the more international folk Danish bands and a reference in the
independent world scene. Afenginn will perform at the Council Square on July
the 22nd.
Two days after, on July the 24th the Festival
will greet the Feroe Islands voice, Eivør. A vocalist, musician and
composer who has an extraordinary beautiful and powerful voice with delicate,
conmovent and almost supernatural shades. Its music has been part of TV shows,
video games and movies such as Game of Thrones, The Last Kingdom, Deepwater
Horizon, Silence or Metal Geat Survive. Most of her inspiration comes from its
home in Feroe islands, where traditional folk songs change completely from one
to village to another and kids grow up in musical families. Love for her
culture and nature are deeply rooted in Eivør, who has enlarged her musical
bases with influences coming from jazz, country, classic and electronic music.
The Savage Rose is one of the mythical bands in
Denmark, one of its more important rock groups. Last year they celebrate their
50th anniversary, or rather did Annisette Kopper, its vocalist and
the only one remaining since the begginings. This band is a classic venerated
in Denmark, and counts with milions of fans all over the world, inlcuing Björk
herself. The name Annisette is synonym of integrity and honesty. That is why
Anisette is considered one of the more powerful and exquisite singer in Danish
music. With The Savage Rose she has incorporate new sounds to rock and has
already released twenty albums and performed at main music festivals such as
Montreal or Roskilde. The Savage Rose will perform on July the 25th.
In a double program with the Spanish band M.O.D.A. on July
the 27th, the Festival is honoured to receive the unique musician, Bisse.
Bisse is not like anyone else at the Danish panorama. He has been compared to
David Bowie or to the Danish rock star
C.V. Jørgensen. “Transgress” is his favourite verb and “Prolific” his
adjective. In fact in only three years he has released eight albums. He is a
guy who take risks, he is an artist, an innovative performer and a composer
whose works are full of energy.
Fiercely productive, creative without artistic limits and in
total synchrony with his intuition. Bisse has set new standards on how to be an
artist in Denmark. He is Danish music's L'enfant terrible opening new
paths in music every day.
Also on July the 27th the public will enjoy the
performance of the Danish duo Wangel. Wangel has become the new light
guiding the electronic Danish panorama by basing their music mainly on personal
experiences. This duo guides to the public to an intimate and electronic
universe, where feelings are almost on surface.
The KutiMangoes, even if they sound like African, are Danish. They
borrow West African music and mix it with their own western roots and give
birth to a new and unique art. They merge cultures in order to create a new
global art expression. The KutiMangoes will perform in Cartagena on July the 27th.
On July the 28th, closing the festival at the
Castillo Árabe, will perform Liima and Den Sorte Skole.
Liima, led by jazz Finnish musician and some members of the
band Efterklang, has become one of the most interesting bands in the
Scandinavian panorama with two bright albums including soft textures and
delicate samplers... both of them are an authentic sonourus kaleidoscope.
Den Sorte Skole is a team of producers and composers whose
live performances recall a dark symphonic journey displayed in samplers, mixers
and effects machines with tones of samplers flying through the voices. Their
compositions are considered as a journey through the sounds of the world. Den
Sorte Skole will perform on July the 28th.
Coming along with Danish music and just like every year, La
Mar de Músicas will host a bunch of important bands and artists from every
continent, such as Totó la Momposina, Rubén Bladés & Roberto Delgado
Orquesta, Salvador Sobral, Morcheeba, Cory Henry & The
Funk Apostles, Alba Molina, Texas, Songhoy Blues, Cécile
McLorin Salvant, Gregory Porter, Inner Circle, La M.O.D.A.,
Fatoumata Diawara, The Human League, Moy Gomar, Kuve,
Poolshake, Jamones con Tacones, Nelida Karr, Alex Ikot,
Karmacadabra and Trending Tropics.
But woman and man do not live by bread alone. Almost fifty
parallel events have been programed in parallel sections among the festival
including Art, Cinema, Literature and Architecture.
Mas allá de Lars Von Trier (Beyond Lars Von
Trier) is the choosen name for the film section focused on Danish contemporary
cinema with movies by Thomas Vinterberg, Lisa Ohlin, Freerikke
Aspöck, Tobias Lindholm, Michael Noer, Susanne Bier, Pernille
Fischer Christensen, Bille August and Martin Zandvliet.
This section is also coupled with a musical documentary special program.
Presenting the work of eleven
contemporary visual artists from Denmark the exhibition Cuento de un
océano (Tale of an ocean) reflects on the sensational creative force of
the ocean and the abundance of stories attached to its mysterious vastness.
Through mediums such as painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, video,
performance and laboratory experiments the exhibition provides a multifaceted
and poetic exchange of ideas reflecting the life of the sea across times and
resonating with the particular history of the naval port city of Cartagena.
The exhibition will take place in 5 different spaces in
Cartagena and will host works by Sophie Dupont, Jacob Kirkegaard,
Oskar Koliander, Rasmus Nilausen, Helene Nymann, Kaspar
Oppen Samuelse & Marie-Louise Vittrup, Julie Stavad, Tove
Storch, Superflex, Astrid Svangren and Mark Tholander.
Another great exhibition will be Luz e ironía
(Light and irony) aimed to create a broad perspective on contemporary Danish
art using a surprising range of different languages. Luz e ironía will
host works by Asger Fon, Per Kirkeby, Elmgreen & Dragset,
Olafur Eliasson and Troels Carlsen.
Besides, within the artistic program there will be place for
young local artists who have worked in the context of the visit that Hans
Christian Andersen, author of “The Mermaid” and “The Ugly Duckling”, paid to
Cartagena and inmmortalised in his book “In Spain”.
For the first time in its history the Festival presents a
new section devoted to Architecture. Two events will be organized in
collaboration with the School of Architecture and Building (Universidad
Politécnica de Cartagena): an exhibition on Danish Architecture named Arquitectura
para las personas (Architecture for people) and a workshop focused on
public space and its relation with outdoors musical events similar to La Mar de
Músicas.
Literature will have special role in the festival in order
to make an approach to Danish creations in this field. Professor Enrique
Bernárdez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and the audience will dialoge
on this matter with Kirsten Thorup, Thomas Rydahl and Lone
Theils. This section will be completed with the encounter of Isaac Rosa
and Morten Dürr, who will give a lecture on graphic novel. As every
year, all the parellel activities entrance is free of charge.
La Mar de Músicas philosophy continues giving place
to bands still little known in Spain, with an eclectic and exclusive program.
Actually from the 44 bands performing in this edition, 17 of them will perform
only in Cartagena and 4 of them will start their Spanish tour in the port city.
Global sounds will be again the leiv motiv of La Mar de Músicas, a
festival that counted with an audience of more than 46.000 people last year. La
Mar de Músicas has also been awarded as the “Best little format Festival” at
the Premios Fest Awards, and in the Iberian Festival Awards in their last
editions.
It is also remarkable that music made by women has always
had a special main role at La Mar de Músicas. For several years this has been
the festival in Spain that has stand up the most for bands led by women in its
program; In fact this year's edition they are the forty per cent. Texas,
Soleá Morente, Nathy Peluso, Fatoumata Diawara, Morcheeba,
Totó la Momposina or Cécile McLorin Salvant are some of the
artists performing in Cartagena, at this festival promoted by the Council of
Cartagena.
¿Que disfrutéis!
Un abrazo
Cámara Hispano Danesa
Marianne K.
+34 609 60 39 39
