2014 was the year that electronica’s cognoscenti fell for Be Svendsen. Foll… Read Full Bio ↴2014 was the year that electronica’s cognoscenti fell for Be Svendsen. Following the success of live performances at Fusion and BOOM, the Danish musician has become a treat on the global festival scene and proponent of a uniquely organic, genre-bending sound that could best be described as ‘Tarantino Techno’.
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.
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.
Nabia
Be Svendsen Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Be Svendsen:
Drop the Gun Come jenny! (Yeah!) Go drop that gun Jenny You saddle up y…
Hazy Eyes Walking with the wind on a lumen sky Talking to a…
man on the run 6:15 in the mist of a dawn A shadow man…
October Letters Is this really it? Is this all there is? Always this fear,…
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@braunheise2680
I have to tell you guys this story about this song. I was tasked by my parents to watch their home while they went away to Chicago to visit my sister. Their house is a typical American northeastern US suburb house, they have a room off the side of the kitchen with a high ceiling where the TV Is and couches etc. So I am in that room and I brought over all my good stuff, PC, good speakers and a bunch of weed and mushrooms etc. So it was around night-ish, they have a single skylight and it was like dusk out, still light enough to see but dark enough to know its night too. So I am clicking around and starting to be hit hard as hell and randomly stumble on this.
Listening to it, II closed my eyes for awhile and let me tell you about the wild thing I saw. It was a dark vision and it's going to be hard to explain. Basically I was transported to this dark room underground that looked like some kind of ritual room or ritualistic place. There were this group of these big 7 foot tall beastly warrior type dudes who were holding long staffs with hawk statues and feathers and orbs and other things at the end of the staffs. The only way I can think to describe them was like some mix between Aztecs/Mayan god-king looking guys, and some kind of Egyptian-ish priest. They were staring at me and two of them opened this door that was at the end of the room. I looked inside and I saw this long hallway that led to pitch black. I felt like they were smiling with a sort of sneaky grin to each other while I was looking away, I never saw them do it but in the vision I sensed it.
With every reverbation of the bass, I saw this sonic wave bouncing into the hallway and into the darkness like a ring around the walls of the hall shooting back and forth down from the darkness and bouncing back towards it. When I heard the specific guitar section of the song, in the vision I was seeing one of the warrior king priest guys, he was waving his staff and it was creating the guitar sounds, and as he did it, certain shapes like lines similar to the ones a seismograph makes on the paper when an earthquake is happening, these lines started traveling into the hallway, but they didnt bounce back. It was sort of like the guy doing it was just playing with the sounds, that no matter how he waved his staff, the sound would end up being in key with the reverbating bass back and forth, like he was showing me some kind of secret harmony or symmetry in the world they knew about that I didn't.
I can see this vision so clearly every time I hear the song now. I always come back to it and think about it all the time and wonder about what I saw. Something about it felt more real than normal like these people had been here at one time, they were gone now but they had been here. Maybe they are still watching.
P.S. I've tried actually doing some research into it and can't find anything too much, but I have looked deep into the Mayans and Aztecs and found some wild theories. Apparently there are tunnels in South America that stretch under entire mountain ranges, they were built before the Mayans even existed and the Mayans eventually found them, as well as finding megalithic ruins of civilizations that had construction technology that we know the Mayans, Aztecs, and Spanish never were capable of and have no record of building them. One of the entrances to these tunnels is actually suspected to be under a church in South America that was founded by the monastic crusader orders like Knights Hospitaller, Templars, etc. who were active in Spain still during the time of the conquistadors. They do not allow anyone to open the door. Apparently there are decoded messages in the statues placed in the front yards of churches around Europe that when decoded, give directions to those who decoded them to go to South America to this tunnel system if ever there is another cataclysmic event on earth.
Not sure I will ever have an answer to this or if the lead on this South American church is even right. But I'll never forget this weird event, I don't think I could if I tried
@krikorhadidian897
I am a long time listener of Jazz, Classical Music, Opera, Fado and Flamenco and I am 83 now,
and imagine I am listening this music NABIA and I liked it so much . It is so beautiful; well, something different. Krikor from L. A. CA.
@XmanSully
Dude you are the best. Live long and prosper
@Adam308d
You look a lot younger than 83. Enjoy the tune!
@rebel_soul_eldin
love your words. music is the answer.
@s101077
Carry on brother, you have so much more to explore.
@oussamaassoudi6649
hassan tower
@takemybreathaway9911
Masterpiece! Greetings from Serbia!
@widadvlogs2652
This became my wake up track, never fail to help kick-start my morning. Love from Morocco
@dahhopper4838
My mind has dissolved into a warm comfortable place in a universe of sound. Oh so magical and comforting.
@oussamaassoudi6649
hassan tower