Author: Mette Kirkegaard

►►► ANGIE
In the late summer months of 2015 I found a beautiful inspiration for this song and grabbed the pen. Recorded demo song “Angie” this Winter at home.

The song is inspired by a long conversation with a literature and music friend who played various genres for me for hours, among them Joni Mitchell. I noticed how Joni was talking-singing on some of her songs, and I sort of woke up. It made a huge impact on me, and I wanted to add this daily life-vibe talking-singing to my poetry.

I was undergoing some changes in my life, and hearing the sounds that night, I fell into the music and found my true home and inner space again. I knew that this is my life – music, art, poetry.

Later a woman came and told me she had paid the money she owed her exboyfriend, and this sort of set the starting scene for the imagery of the song tapestry, Angie. I wrote the draft in one piece.

She discusses with herself how to want someone that you feel you never really have. Angie explains how “you just give some love” to someone that you want more than for a romance. However also its a manifestation of the standpoint she takes that love comes in all shapes and ways of giving, and being open to love is love.

Right now I have taken the song a step further from the below arrangement by rehearsing it with cello player Susanne Solnoki, and it really adds more to the mellow vibe.

A true song for runaway hearts and dreamers…

▶▶▶Radio news: Song ‘Dry Wood’ begins in rotation in Los Angeles, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Illinois and Tokyo… on March 10.
KMIX Radio Los Angeles, California USA
http://www.kmix-radio.com/losangeles7
JXFM Radio Tokyo, Japan
http://www.jxfm-radio.com/tokyo7
WNYR Radio New York, New York USA
http://www.wnyr-radio.com/newyork7
WMBR Radio Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
http://www.wmbr-radio.com/riodejaneiro7
WCTR Radio Chicago, Illinois USA
http://www.wctr-radio.com/chicago7

▶▶▶My Folk EP “Dry Wood” won the February Month Folk EP award in The Akademia Awards, LA. A spot for Independent artists.
‘Mette Kirkegaard has an extraordinary voice – matched in pitch perfection only by her compositional instincts – and this small treasury of folk songs is so lively with invention it’s destined for wide recognition among pop listeners too.”
Listen to Dry Wood:
Bandcamp:
https://mettekirkegaard.bandcamp.com/releases
Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/album/00Njp2uJ9FiVO5a1PGn4Nz…
The winner: http://www.theakademia.com/february2016_bestep_folk9.html
Industry news: http://mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=189600

Music Business 2020 har udsendt en brochure til erhvervslivet “Musik på Arbejdspladsen”. Mette H. Kirkegaard er med som solokunstner i brochuren.

Giv dine medarbejdere unikke oplevelser og skab værdi i organisationen gennem musikalske aktiviteter.

– Se onlinebrochuren her
MusicBusiness 2020 har skabt et nyt musikkoncept, der skaber værdi i din organisation. Konceptet “Musik på arbejdspladsen” samler en række af Danmarks dygtigste komponister og sætter hver deres unikke kompetencer i spil for at hjælpe din organisation fremad.

Vi tilbyder en bred vifte af musikalske indslag, som kan hjælpe din virksomhed til at nå forskellige mål. Genremæssigt spænder indslagene bredt. Vi tilbyder musikalske oplæg omhandlende alt fra motivation og fastholdelse af medarbejdere til forskellige koncerter og innovationsworkshops mm.

Komponisterne er udvalgt for at sikre, at vi kan levere tilbud, der passer til lige netop din organisation. Vi skræddersyer altså de musikalske aktiviteter, så de passer til firmaets behov.
Koncerter og workshops spænder over følgende genrer: Jazz, klassisk, folk, rock, pop, fusion, country, rap.

Forestillingerne kan afholdes forskellige steder i organisationen alt efter ønske og beskaffenhed.
Hvis du ønsker at høre mere om konceptet, så kontakt MB2020´s Director of Business Development, Jens F. Kofoed, på +45 25942539 eller jfk@mb2020.dk

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