Night Music Gallery 08 - Jeg synes det vokser på mig det her

My little mash-up video from Night Music Gallery at Statens Museum for Kunst (the Danish national gallery). With free admission like always, two bars like what up, and José González and the danish dj act Stella Polaris playing, this night of art and music was something to remember.



Music
Rodney Graham - unknown
José González - Heartbeats

Art (from the exhibition Reality Check)
Rodney Graham - The Photokinetoscope (high on LSD)
Zoe Leonard - Mouth Open, Teeth Showing (an army of dolls)

Bon Iver - Blood Bank (lyrics and stream)

Bon Iver - Blood Bank - Lyrics:

Well i met you at the blood bank
we were looking at the bags
wondering if any of the colors
matched any of the names we knew on the tags

you said "see look at that's yours
stacked on top with your brother's
see how they resemble oneanother's
even in their plastic little covers"

well I said I know it well

that secret that you know
that you don't know how to tell

well it fucks with your honor
and it teases your head
but you know that its good girl
cos its running through you with thread

then the snow started falling
we were stuck out in your car
you were rubbing both my hands
chewing on a candy bar

You said “Ain't it just like a present
To be showing up like this?”
as the moon waned to crescent
we started to kiss

I said I know it well

that secret that you know
but you don't know how to tell
I'm in love with your honor
I'm in love with your cheeks
what's that noise up the stairs babe?
Is that Christmas morning creaks?
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Bon Iver - Beach Baby - Lyrics
Bon Iver - Babys - Lyrics
Bon Iver - Woods - Lyrics
Bon Iver - Brackett, WI (lyrics + stream)
Nephew - 007 is also gonna die - Lyrics

Bon Iver - Blood Bank (studio version):


I wonder if it's the final studio version of Blood Bank - it doesn't really match the concert version. Or maybe you just have to get used to this more quiet version. Probably, yes.
I recorded Blood Bank at Vega, Copenhagen:



Without the online crowd push he would never have gotten out to the world. No record label would have dared. No promoter would have known.

Now he is touring the whole world with his friends from some town in USA. At the concert in Copenhagen they told us they were happy and thrilled to be here and meet the Copenhagen people - that they were grateful to be able to see the world.
Indeed, they are lucky ones. And so are we!

Silver Jews + "heat up" band, Monotonix

I went to hear Silver Jews in Columbia Club (Berlin) yesterday. We were having a big Hefe in their free garden. Everybody were smoking and I felt like too, but I didn’t!
A half beer later the music started. Drums and guitar, that was all. People went inside to check it out. We considered staying out here in the setting sun until Silver Jews would enter. But then again, what if the support band for once was something!? And it was!
This is how the Monotonix show started:



And this is where they ended. On the bar!



We had never heard about Monotonix so along with the rest of the crowd we were shocked - laughing'n grinning we had to buy another beer. Silver Jews went out in the crowd to check out what happened and they stayed.

Then came Silver Jews. The concert was very good. Lead singer David Berman was a bit shaky in the start but he charmed his way back in the game with help from the six person band. Best was the duets between David and his beautiful wife and bassist of the band. The play between the two made the heat of the room reach same level as under the rage of Monotonix. Also the talented guitarist William made a great performance.


Thanks to the Silver Jews for coming to Europe again. Hope you will be back next year!
Monotonix is playing again in Berlin the 4. of June at Café Zapata in Tacheles. Count me in – if I still dare!