31 min
Folk Live - Azur Azur 2023 Folk Live
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Welcome to RadioFolk.dk ’s podcast, Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast, we will be featuring the trio AZUR AZUR recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival that runs the last weekend of August every year.
AZUR AZUR has created their own unique sound universe around the young double bass player, Frederik Mensink’s acute and atmospheric compositions. But occasionally the rest of the band members compose for the trio’s well. The music has been described as: ‘Modern instrumental folk music with a cool Nordic tone, that combines traditional Scandinavian folk music and jazzy improvisations’.
Frederik Mensink grew up with folk music and he has studied a Master in folk music at the Danish National Academy of Music. In fact all together the musicians in AZUR AZUR has studied folk music, world music, nyckleharpa, drama and improvisation, at conservatories in Scandinavian cities like Esbjerg, Aarhus, Gothenburg and Stockholm.
Frederik Mensink formed the trio in 2019, and it consists of Frederik himself on bass, Rasmus Brinck on nyckelharpe and Jonathan Fjord Bredholt on piano.
AZUR AZUR starts this concert with Jonathan Fjord Bredholt’s tune ‘Aksels Første’…
Welcome to RadioFolk.dk ’s podcast, Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast, we will be featuring the trio AZUR AZUR recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival that runs the last weekend of August every year.
AZUR AZUR has created their own unique sound universe around the young double bass player, Frederik Mensink’s acute and atmospheric compositions. But occasionally the rest of the band members compose for the trio’s well. The music has been described as: ‘Modern instrumental folk music with a cool Nordic tone, that combines traditional Scandinavian folk music and jazzy improvisations’.
Frederik Mensink grew up with folk music and he has studied a Master in folk music at the Danish National Academy of Music. In fact all together the musicians in AZUR AZUR has studied folk music, world music, nyckleharpa, drama and improvisation, at conservatories in Scandinavian cities like Esbjerg, Aarhus, Gothenburg and Stockholm.
Frederik Mensink formed the trio in 2019, and it consists of Frederik himself on bass, Rasmus Brinck on nyckelharpe and Jonathan Fjord Bredholt on piano.
AZUR AZUR starts this concert with Jonathan Fjord Bredholt’s tune ‘Aksels Første’…
31 min