LEAP OVER LIGHT - DENMARK (Copenhagen) ~ NORDIC MUSIC

I would like to resume this blog by introducing a very special Danish band called Leap Over Light. I couldn't imagine better motivation to restart blogging than receiving such a precious e-mail... Huge MANGE TAK to Julie, who helped me a lot in creating this post. It is definitely attention-worthy band, so I collected all the informations with great pleasure and excitement. Their music made me feel like I just melted into it and became a part of exultation. I'm only one of many people who is entranced with it, five star review in the Danish music magazine Gaffa and received title 'demo of the month' seems to confirm it.
'Leap Over Light has worked hard on strengthening their material and taking their expression even further. The four songs that make out Wild Oak, are mastered by Greg Calbi in the Sterling Sound Studios in New York.
An airy female voice lingers above a foundation of crackling noise and metallic decay. A minimalistic guitar joins in with harmonies of dreams and longing. A coy clarinet interrupts the soundscape from time to time, while a sinister cello adds a mournful darkness. Thus, the music is never tempered or in between, but always attempting to conjoin the opposites – whether it being the forceful with the fragile, the earth bound with the ethereal or the ironical with the serious.'
Let yourself fall into those beautiful sounds...

CONTENTS:

BAND NAME (etymology)
FORMATION YEAR
GENRE
HOMETOWN
RECORD LABEL
MEMBERS
HISTORY
DISCOGRAPHY
MEDIA REFERENCE
LIVE PERFORMANCES

(Etymology)

Due to Julie's courtesy I can share with you interesting story behind their bandname
LEAP OVER LIGHT:

"[...]We wanted it to signal our creative process, which tends to be very playfull and maybe even childish (we toyed around with names of childrens games like leap frog, jumping hoops or hopscotch) But in our process we also often try to incorperate very dark and very light elements. These often clash and in the process of forcing the two together it sometimes seems impossible. Just as impossible as leaping over the light or below the darkness"

2010

Alternative Pop

Copenhagen

FiniSh your PlaTe Records

Julie Aagaard

(vocals, keys)

Lennart Rasmussen

(guitars, loops)

"Lennart and I have excisted as a songwriting team for the last 6 years. But we have mostly been writing for other small acts and TV productions. So we have surfed around a lot in different genres and produced everything from mainstream pop to Bossa Nova. But last year we decided to write for our selves - and to write the music that we love, which I guess is a mix of folk, electronic and pop. We are touring right now, but we have also started to write a full album, which should be finished in the spring of next year, if all goes well :-)"

EP:

Wild Oak (June 2011)

1. Thousand Lies
2. We Hang A Lot
3. Howl At The Sun
4. Wild Oak

”Wash me down / I am dirty / I smell like a thousand lies”, is Julie Aagaards plea on the up tempo and energetic first track Thousand Lies. The next three tracks are less agressive. These contain stories of faith in the unfulfilled love (We Hang A Lot), of youthful decadence and self-indulgence (Howl at the Sun) and of the deterioration and dissolve of old age on the title track, Wild Oak.

"Thousand Lies"

"We Hang A Lot"

"Howl At The Sun"

About "WILD OAK" :

Underlyd

81%
”A fantastic overall sound, that makes sence”

Lydtapet

5/6
”Music that has several stardusty soundscapes, that give the music an authenticity and a liberating feel, which again shows originality in recognizable sound universes."

Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen

“seducingly beautiful ”

Musikmigblidt

” Dreamy grandeur and detail oriented playfulness”

Krydsfelt

”within a Danish context it has a depth, which has not been heard before”