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.
October Letters
Be Svendsen Lyrics
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Is this all there is?
Always this fear, sinking into this mighty love
Always in flux
Aroused in trust
Grounded as if this could never end
Suddenly, the room is caving in on me
Memories, sweeping my sanity
Frequencies cut through my melody
Is this sanity? Could this really be
Embracing fear, giving-in to this mighty love
Always in flux
Aroused in trust
Grounded as if this could never end
Suddenly the room is caving in on me
Memories, sweeping my sanity
Suddenly, the dark will find its way to me
Frequencies cut through my Melody
Suddenly the room is caving in on me
Memories, sweeping my sanity
Suddenly, the dark will find its way to me
Frequencies cut through my Melody
The lyrics of Be Svendsen's song, October Letters, reflect the mixed emotions of fear, love, and trust that are prevalent in relationships. The singer is caught in a moment of uncertainty and questioning if this is all there is to the relationship. Despite being grounded in the trust of one another and the belief that their love will never end, fear overtakes them causing the room to cave in on them. Memories start flooding their minds, and that is when the realization sets in that the darkness will always find its way into their lives, and there is nothing they can do about it. The singer's melody is cut through with frequencies that represent the emotional discord of the moment.
The lyrics are a portrayal of the complexities of human emotions and the duality that exists within relationships. The fear of losing a loved one and the uncertainty about the future, juxtaposed with feelings of trust and love, create a whirlwind of emotions that can sweep one away in a moment's notice. The line "always in flux" highlights the ever-changing nature of relationships and the need for constant adjustment and adaptation.
Line by Line Meaning
Is this really it?
Is this all there is?
Is this all there is?
Wondering if there is more to life
Always this fear, sinking into this mighty love
Feeling scared but embracing strong emotions
Always in flux
Consistently changing
Aroused in trust
Feeling aroused by trust
Grounded as if this could never end
Feeling stable and secure, thinking it will never end
Suddenly, the room is caving in on me
Feeling overwhelmed and trapped suddenly
Memories, sweeping my sanity
Memories causing emotional distress
Suddenly, the dark will find its way to me
Feeling doomed to darkness
Frequencies cut through my melody
Sounds disrupting inner peace
Is this sanity? Could this really be
Questioning one's sanity
Embracing fear, giving-in to this mighty love
Accepting fear and intense emotions
Suddenly the room is caving in on me
Feeling overwhelmed and trapped suddenly
Memories, sweeping my sanity
Memories causing emotional distress
Suddenly, the dark will find its way to me
Feeling doomed to darkness
Frequencies cut through my melody
Sounds disrupting inner peace
Suddenly the room is caving in on me
Feeling overwhelmed and trapped suddenly
Memories, sweeping my sanity
Memories causing emotional distress
Suddenly, the dark will find its way to me
Feeling doomed to darkness
Frequencies cut through my melody
Sounds disrupting inner peace
Contributed by Kylie L. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@AhmetCN
Is this really it?
Is this all there is?
Away is fear, sinking into this mighty love
Always in flux
Aroused in trust
Grounded as if this could never end
Suddenly, the room is caving in on me
Memories, sweeping my sanity
Suddenly, the dark will find its way to me
Frequencies cut through my melody
Is this sanity? Could this really be
Embracing fear, giving-in to this mighty love
Always in flux
Aroused in trust
Grounded as if this could never end
Suddenly the room is caving in on me
Memories, sweeping my sanity
Suddenly, the dark will find its way to me
Frequencies cut through my Melody
Suddenly the room is caving in on me
Memories, sweeping my sanity
Suddenly, the dark will find its way to me
Frequencies cut through my Melody
@Alexandra098_kumiho
This is how a masterpiece sounds like 🔥
@SOLSTICE55
Be Svendsen surely knows how to make music
@TheVelvetvoicecoach
This is so beautifully skilful. It's so well put together.
@vitaliyistratov6620
как по мне так это лучшее, что я слышал ,в этом году.
@alexisgamemusic
I love your music !!!
@LucasPicks
Suave, good sound, It creates a suggestive ambiance, I give it two thumbs up.
@shiny888
just heard this for the first time, on Chilltrax. love it!
@nevalercan
Danke fürs teilen📎
@elisavieira737
So beautiful
@fifistehag7106
I like your your music