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artist :	Lampshade
album :	Because trees can fly
Lampshade - Because trees can fly

Deep down in the Swedish woods in a small studio the Danish/Swedish indie band lampshade’s debut album came into existence. Massive and melancholic, sensitive and intense, beautiful and timid – this is the sound of the album ‘because trees can fly’ – the meeting of rebekkamaria’s fairy-like girlish voice and the instrumental universe of soundscapes. One moment it is marvellous and lyrically touching, the next it is taken by surprise with massive and loudly build crescendos like a roaring waterfall of noise. An album that is majestic like an autumn storm and at the same time gentle and beautiful like summer rain. The title ’because trees can fly’ is inspired by the poem ’Seglet blev brudt’ written by the Danish author Martin A. Hansen, and it is an expression of the band’s confident and simple but grandiose music. It is an album full of hope and positivism containing 12 songs that shape a whole of whispering lyric poetry and beautiful noise. The tracks are flavoured with trumpet, cello, horn, glockenspiel, piano and a lot of other musical details. The album is varied, but it has the deep leitmotif of presence and rebekkamaria’s characteristic voice in the centre. When singer rebekkamaria joined the one-year-old band lampshade in the late summer of 2001, a journey in sound and poetry began. A journey that rapidly took lampshade out on clubs all over Denmark, in papers, magazines, TV and radio. Not least of all it was a journey in music – music that made both the band and a swiftly increasing crowd of listeners excited. After the release of ‘adorable void?’ in March 2002, they played close to 100 concerts in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands and Denmark, performed live at Danish radio – P3 (where ‘adorable void?’ and ‘adorable void? MOFUS remix’ was in rotation and ‘within symmetry’ was 8 weeks at Det Elektriske Barometer) etc. Moreover the band has performed on Danish and international compilation releases and also the Danish release ‘3P’ from Bird Hits Plane (3 EPs in 1 box including the bands Kvæg, lampshade and Apartment). lampshade, has managed to address both the so-called underground and a broad mainstream audience in Northern Europe. The band writes all its songs together and all contribute with new ideas and ‘relics’ of each of their musical raising that roughly looks like this: Guitarist Martin has his background in hardcore and melancholic rock (e.g. Rage Against The Mashine, Blindside, Smashing Pumpkins, This Beautiful Mess, Radiohead), while the Swedish Drummer Daniel is into emorock (e.g. Sunny Day Real Estate, Misprint, Jimmy Eat World and Last Days Of April). The musical revolution in bassist and singer Johannes’ life came with noise- and postrock (e.g. Mogwai, Do Make Say Think, Glorybox). Lead singer and key-player rebekkamaria’s universe is full of lo-fi rock and singer/song-writer music (e.g. Stina Nordenstam, Low, Damien Jurado, Rosie Thomas, Danielson Family and Spokane). (Roger Rey)