Rather like Tarantino, Svendsen’s art has the distinction of being rooted in both the familiar and the obscure. The playful and the ironic. His is an alluring fusion of syncopated beats, rendered vocals, world-music, a-typical sampling and live instrumentals, synthesised by the mediative qualities of repetition.
A borrower, an inventor and an art-chemist. He plays first from the soul. He is a warm outsider in a psychedelic bowler-hat. His music, an audial rendition of the memories of his own shamanic vision quest. Your ears are to be led by a naive melody up some curious audio-ornamental highway. Your expectations as listener, deliberately, mindfully overthrown.
After starting his solo project in 2011, Be Svendsen - a namesake of his native Danish peninsula- released a series of EPs and remixes which spun across the international scene. Inspired by acclaimed live festival performances at Portugal’s BOOM, Fusion, Burning Man, AfrikaBurn Symbiosis and and tours through Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and Africa, an increasingly intoxicated fanbase followed.
Surprisingly then, he’s a man who rarely listens to electronic music. As an artist, you’ll find him aloof from of the conventional electronic music world altogether.
Deliberately distant, so as to quieten any easy influences and create something entirely new.
Vehemently defiant of both trends and hype, it is a sound that deliberately skirts the digital and plays on the low-fi. This is musician over machine. A musician who can breathe fresh life into sounds that recall old nomadic stories, making them resolutely modern.
Perhaps explaining why the Burning Man crew get turned on by for his music, it straddles the melodic, the euphoric and evocatively sombre. Sounds that can be playful one Nevada sunrise and obscure, on a starry BOOM midnight.
It mobilises everything from Tribal-tech, field-teased vibes, woozy Arabic melodies, via the rusty spaghetti-western soundtrack, into an almost mythical manifestation of the deserts and planes of the old American West.
It is through these playful interchanges of style that Be Svendsen expresses a profound and ever self-interrogating talent for innovation and alchemy. This talent takes him out of the tired end of techno, away from any easy neat and tidy genre classifications and firmly into the avant-garde.
He explains: ”The music should ultimately connect you to a bigger picture”. The goal is to express and convey a feeling, and to behold the moment - the essence of oscillating between a smile and a tear. “I like to bring tragedy and humour together, and invite them up for a dance.” This is in some way, a a celebration of what he calls chiaroscuro - the light and dark - of existence. His sets are transporting, providing a cinematic swagger to the listener submersed in his soundscape.
Never failing to provoke a sense of shared intensity, his sets induce broad, knowing smiles and the acknowledgement and gratification that can only accompany the truly unique. You’ll find a collection of world-wise, wide-open hearts, made whole by a hypnotic, electronic vigour on this particular desert-circus-shaman-cowboy’s, dance-floor. You’ll find it somewhere between the ornamental East and on a barely trodden path called Be Svendsen, way out, in the untamed West.
Drop the Gun
Be Svendsen Lyrics
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(Yeah!)
Go drop that gun Jenny
You saddle up your horse when you're riding home
Run Jenny
Ride on
You've dropped your gun Jenny
You saddle up your horse when you're riding home
You've dropped your gun Jenny
You saddle up your horse when you're riding home
You've dropped your gun Jenny
Ride on
(You)
Go drop that gun Jenny
You saddle up your horse when you're riding home
(You)
(You)
Run Jenny!
(Yeah!)
You've dropped your gun Jenny
You saddle up your horse when you're riding home
You've dropped your gun Jenny
You saddle up your horse when you're riding home
Ride on
(You)
You've dropped your gun Jenny
You saddle up your horse when you're riding home
Ride on
(You)
Ride on
(You)
The lyrics to Be Svendsen's song "Drop the Gun" repeat the command "Go drop that gun Jenny" while urging her to ride on and saddle up her horse. The repetition of these phrases is likely meant to create a sense of urgency and convey a message of empowerment to "Jenny." The use of a female name in the lyrics is interesting as it creates a sense of personalization and a story around the situation- Jenny could be anyone caught in a tense situation involving a gun. The song is quite short and has a minimalist style that creates an almost hypnotic effect on the listener.
One interpretation of the lyrics is that they are a call to action to someone caught in a violent situation. The singer could be urging Jenny to drop her gun and choose peace over violence. The refrain of "saddle up your horse when you're riding home" could be interpreted as an encouragement to move forward and ride on towards a future without conflict. The lyrics could also be interpreted within a greater context of war and conflict, commenting on the cycle of violence and the need for peace.
Overall, "Drop the Gun" is a powerful call to action that could be interpreted in various ways. Through repetition and a minimalist style of music, the lyrics convey a sense of urgency and empower the listener to take action towards peace.
Line by Line Meaning
Come jenny!
The singer is calling out to Jenny.
(Yeah!)
Jenny responds affirmatively with excitement.
Go drop that gun Jenny
The singer is urging Jenny to let go of her weapon.
You saddle up your horse when you're riding home
Jenny prepares her horse to travel back home.
Run Jenny
The artist instructs Jenny to leave quickly.
Ride on
Encouragement for Jenny to continue on her journey.
(You)
Reiteration of the addressee being Jenny.
You've dropped your gun Jenny
The artist notes that Jenny has released her firearm.
Ride on
Encouragement for Jenny to continue on her journey.
(You)
Reiteration of the addressee being Jenny.
Go drop that gun Jenny
The singer repeats the instruction for Jenny to abandon her weapon.
You saddle up your horse when you're riding home
Jenny again prepares her horse to travel back home.
(You)
Reiteration of the addressee being Jenny.
(You)
Reiteration of the addressee being Jenny.
Run Jenny!
The singer once again commands Jenny to depart in haste.
(Yeah!)
Jenny responds affirmatively and excitedly.
You've dropped your gun Jenny
The artist reminds Jenny that she has let go of her weapon.
You saddle up your horse when you're riding home
Jenny once more prepares to journey home on her horse.
You've dropped your gun Jenny
The singer reiterates that Jenny is no longer armed.
Ride on
Encouragement for Jenny to continue on her journey.
(You)
Reiteration of the addressee being Jenny.
You've dropped your gun Jenny
The artist notes that Jenny has released her firearm.
You saddle up your horse when you're riding home
Jenny prepares her horse to travel back home.
Ride on
Encouragement for Jenny to continue on her journey.
(You)
Reiteration of the addressee being Jenny.
Ride on
The singer repeats their encouragement for Jenny to continue traveling.
(You)
Reiteration of the addressee being Jenny.
Writer(s): Lasse Bruhn Svendsen
Contributed by Hunter Y. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@maeevans4631
Ahhh I love the sound and feel of this!! My daughter's name is Amelia, nickname, Millie. We sing this song to her and tell her to get her gun Millie. Works perfectly 😋
@BeSVENDSEN
I made this tune for Millie! ✨
@claudebuysse7482
@@BeSVENDSEN I discover you a week ago and i worked in radio station 40 years. It's the first time since a long time i 'am crushed on the master pieces like you compose. Excellent , Iste Klass !!! Far Out!!!
@martinecarlier2183
@@claudebuysse7482😊
@TheBassJockey
You are a living legend
@Sur5r
This has a ZZ Top appeal to it that I love. This is an awesome song!
@Martas86
thank you very much for your sets that will take me on a unique trip to be a wizard
@WorldDancingRecordHolder
Don’t you ever Think to drop your artistic Gun Be(nii) !!!!!
🙏🙏
@djfedezz3823
I love this sound!!!!very cool!!!!!!
@elisavieira737
I love your music