Boho Dancer
Copenhagen
Boho Dancer’s enchanting folk-pop, with its quirkily appealing vocals and captivating melodies, has gained them a considerable following in their native Denmark and is winning them fans across the rest of the world. The music is highly emotional yet accessible and there are dark, almost gothic overtones, “a melancholic Nordic vibe”, as singer Ida Wenøe puts it. Meanwhile, the singing is equally cute and cutting and the lyrics express a worldview that is childlike yet weary. Like fairytales for adults.
Words, voice and music are showcased on Boho Dancer’s debut album, Gemini: it is a haunting delight, with songs about good friends and bad weather, love in general and the local landscape, that, even at their most delicate, have the power to haunt long after they’ve finished.
The album 'Gemini' is out now. Buy it here:
CD: http://www.vmeshop.dk/produkt/?cid=3&pid=1024
Vinyl: http://www.vmeshop.dk/produkt/?cid=3&pid=1025
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/dk/album/gemini/id624349918
Boho Dancer is a trio - Ida Wenøe (lead vocal, guitar), Símun Mohr (bass, vocal, guitar) and Asker Bjørk (drums, vocal, guitar) - who formed in 2009, first meeting in Aarhus before moving to Copenhagen in the summer of 2011. Ida is responsible for the lyrics and melodies, the band joining forces for production and arrangements. “Each individual brings something to the whole, and this is what distinguishes us from a lot of similar singer-songwriter artists. We are working together to create something bigger than the sum of the people in the band.”
Influenced by the classic songwriting of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake and by more contemporary exponents of folk-inflected pop such as Local Natives, Fleet Foxes and First Aid Kit, Boho Dancer also bring a certain indefinable Nordic quality to bear on their songwriting. It has already fared them well, the band having supported numerous feted Danish alternative rock acts, played most of the country’s big festivals including SPOT, NorthSide and SmukFest and been glowingly received by the press and radio.
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