LJODAHÅTT: Tour 2024

In the organizer's words:

... it's not exactly a nordic poetic folk rock band ...

It's a daring bunch that enters the stage. As if they had stepped straight out of the enchanted twilight of endless Scandinavian forests. Black-robed figures with bowler hats. Seven men in all, picking up their instruments to bring the literature of Norway to life musically.

Ljodahått is the name of the collective led by Norwegian Magne Håvard Brekke. Musicians, actors and composers from half of Europe who have set old and contemporary Norwegian poems to music, from the Edda and Henrik Ibsen to Tarjei Vesaas and Olav H. Hauge.
Brekke studied acting in East Berlin, was a member of the Berlin Volksbühne and has worked with directors such as Castorf, Gotscheff and Marthaler.

Ljodahått are characterized by a mixture of different musical styles that is as original as it is peculiar. Nordic song forms meet folk, jazz and rock. The band name is well chosen. The Norwegian word Ljodahått stands for an old Nordic verse form, but can also be translated as "song of the trolls". The music of Ljodahått has something lyrically beautiful, sometimes even fairytale-like, only to tip over into the rough, becoming wild and uncouth in the next moment.

Audiences and the press are enthusiastic. At the Edinburgh Festival, a British journalist described Ljodahått's music as "a mixture of Arcade Fire and Leonard Cohen." The Oslo daily newspaper Dagbladet stated in a concert review: "This is what it would sound like if Tom Waits sang in Norwegian." And Le Figaro from Paris wrote: "... poetic, vibrant and full of energy".

It is a pleasure to follow and listen to the sounds of Ljodahått. And this language, which sounds so archaic and strange and at the same time wondrously familiar. Perhaps, according to Rainer Süßmilch, German band member of Ljodahått, this is precisely where the magic and fascination of the band lies. Because no matter where Ljodahått has performed so far, whether in Norway or Germany, in France, England or India, there have never been any language barriers. At some point, says Süßmilch, the spark just jumps over. Everywhere. And every time.

https://www.ljodahatt.com/

Dates: April 19 & 20, 2024 each at 7.30 pm

Tickets:
VVK 20,- € at: https://ticket374.tickethome.at/kuenstler/ljodahatt
B.O. 25,- €