Oh Land is a very peculiar new cinematic electropop Dane who recently sailed across the sea to the artistic haven of Brooklyn in New York. With an opera … (more) singer for a mother, a theater organist for a father and Björk’s Homogenic release on constant rotation, Oh Land was enraptured by the combination of experimental and the classical arts. “My goal is to sound like I’m from 2050, but still again feel really classic, like the music is an old friend,” said Oh Land. As a very young girl, she spent her days pirouetting as a ballet dancer at the Danish Royal Ballet Academy in Copenhagen when an injury forced her to reinvent herself and discover her true talent and passion as a musician. Oh Land soon after released her first album, Fauna, which really garnered a lot of critical acclaim in her homeland of Denmark. Her soundscapes are lavish, crunchy, symphonic, brute and yet again captivated with rhythms that fly apart. She translates the sounds live via her own “contraption” – a homemade one-woman-band music box topped with cool balloon video projections (seeing is believing). Her music is definitely for movement and new songs such as the thumping “Sun of a Gun” and euphoric “White Nights” have both proven to make even the most portentous get up and dance. Having then been discovered by Epic Records at 2009’s SXSW, she is currently putting the finishing touches on her US debut album and a new EP to be released sometimes this fall. In anticipation for that release on Epic, Oh Land also has a great run of remixes for her first single out called ‘Sun of a Gun’.
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