SPOT 08: Hidden gems

Morten Bock — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:58:26 +0100

For those of you who don't know what the SPOT festival is about, I recommend taking a look at the website. It's a two day festival in the middle of Aarhus, filled with upcoming artists of different sorts. The whole thing reminds me at bit of the open space format that was used at Codegarden. Basically you don't know anything about 80% of the performing bands, so when you go to a concert, you must apply "The Law of The Two Feet". If you don't like the show, just get up and go see another one.

A hidden gem

When you are cruising a lot of concerts it is obviously harder for an artist to stand out from the vast crowd of talent, but when I sat down to hear Maia Hirasawa I did not want to go anywhere else. Just pure soothing music flowing from the stage with nice arrangements and a twist of meaningful lyrics (I'm not really a lyrics man, so don't take my word for it...). Instead, listen to it yourself (Try to forget the sound quality. The CD is much better, so go buy it!):

She also has a MySpace page, but I fucking hate MySpace, so I won't link to it.

There was also a session called Nordic Cowriters that was basically a bunch of Nordic singer-songwriters that had been placed in a mansion, and forced to write a lot of new songs. Very interesting concert, and there was definitely some talent in that group.