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VIDEO: Hauschka

Posted on February 10, 2009 - Filed Under Video | Leave a Comment

 On January 15th German musician and composer Hauschka played at Musikcaféen. This he did on a socalled “prepared piano” augmenting the classic piano sound by placing objects in the piano itself.
Hauschka released the album “Ferndorf” on Fat Cat Records in 2008 and it got lots of great reviews - even landing on some “best of 2008″ [...]

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FEB 14: Singvogel & Peter Laugesen

Posted on February 9, 2009 - Filed Under Preview | Leave a Comment

Aarhus band Singvogel is doing a show with poet Peter Laugesen at Lobby on February 14th.
Singvogel  have released three albums so far - two of them with Peter Laugesen. Before starting Singvogel some of the members rocked the Aarhus underground as part of the cult band Vildensky.
Peter Laugesen is one of the most applauded contemporary poets [...]

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FEB 12: Joe Buck

Posted on February 9, 2009 - Filed Under Preview | Leave a Comment

This Thursday February 12th it’s time to get down with your inner hillbilly… sorry “hellbilly”. The organizers of Klub Arrogant is putting Joe Buck on stage. So strap yourself in for some bad ass one-man rock’n’roll with just guitar, vocal and a kickdrum. Joining this one man army at Musikcaféen as support act is local band [...]

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VIDEO: Uzi & Ari

Posted on February 9, 2009 - Filed Under Video | Leave a Comment

American band Uzi & Ari played the Musikcaféen on January 30th. Here are two first songs of the show for your viewing and listening pleasure.

Uzi & Ari @ Musikcaféen 2009 from aarhus nu on Vimeo.

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FEB 9: Sir Richard Bishop + Josephine Foster

Posted on February 7, 2009 - Filed Under Preview | Leave a Comment

Monday night at 19.30 the venue Lobby will be filled with the music of two Americans: Sir Richard Bishop and Josephine Foster.
Bishop - formerly one third of Sun City Girls - is quite the virtuoso on the guitar. And an adventurous fella also - mixing influences from Django Reinhardt and John Fahey with Indian raga music [...]

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PHOTOS: RJD2 + Den Sorte Skole

Posted on February 7, 2009 - Filed Under Gallery | Leave a Comment

Aarhus-based photographer Steffen “Jint” Jørgensen shot some great photos of Fridays gig with RJD2 and Den Sorte Skole at Train. The gig was sold-out and the place was jumping’n’steaming.
For more photos from Steffen visit his Flickr site.

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FEB 14: Punk night at Katapult

Posted on February 7, 2009 - Filed Under Preview | Leave a Comment

The organizers of Kælepunk are celebrating their first year at Teater Katapult with a show next Saturday. On stage: The Zero Point, Dream Police, The Bollocks and a surprise band. The whole thing starts at 21.00.
Read more at Kælepunk’s MySpace.

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Facebook group reaches a 100 members

Posted on February 5, 2009 - Filed Under Site info | Leave a Comment

The new ‘århus:nu’ group on Facebook already reached a hundred members. Great! If you’re on Facebook too and want to join the group then go here.

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February 2009 - an overview

Posted on February 1, 2009 - Filed Under Overview | 1 Comment

This is an attempt to sum up most of the shows going on in Aarhus in February. The list is obviously not 100% complete, but should be helpful, we hope.
2/2 Blectum From Blechdom @ SPLab
3/2 Lucky Dragons @ Musikcaféen
4/2 Stefan Pasborg & Marc Ducret + Sekten @ Musikcaféen
5/2 The Foreign Resort + First To Phoenix [...]

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FEB 4: Stefan Pasborg & Marc Ducret + Sekten

Posted on February 1, 2009 - Filed Under Preview | Leave a Comment

Wednesday February 4th Musikcaféen is turned upside down with freejazz when Denmark and France team up for a drum and guitar virtuoso ride: Stefan Pasborg (of Ibrahim Electric etc.) and Marc Ducret.
On the same night you’ll also get the pleasure of Danish-Swedish-Norwegian Sekten who in their own words present something that lies between “lyricism and chaos”. [...]

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