throbbing, pulsing, almost industrial, and it was only thanks to the high tones, you anzupft, you will recognize but then quickly, on which stringed instrument the Songs of Linda bird is based. Already here, in the first song of their debut album “Maps to Others”, is to feel that the 30-year-old from Zurich, a show of strength in the gear is between the game types of your harp, she has studied classically, between the different sound colors on your singing voice the device to Tell, while she leaves the chorus to the Bright.
So rich in contrast of your songs, control the sky high as the soil loose and also time in the carefree Disco, odd your way, Linda bird, with her harp back. Because already during his studies at the Conservatory, she still has training to be a Cook connected, she noted: “As a classical harpist, I do not understand me.”
In the interview, you as the reason, the hierarchical order in orchestras, and she remembers a performance of a Shostakovich work: “What I think of the harp in the orchestra is annoying is that You can Set in the beautiful Tutti-rarely involved. You are sitting there and can’t again until the “Pling-pling”-passages in the play, when everything is quiet again.”
Anyway, you experimented with the harp, “this furniture,” such as Linda bird says lovingly. Because they felt that the harp is far more possible than is commonly believed. It amazes you again and again, how rare the harp is led out of traditional contexts. The Instrument then Kitsch and fairy-tale forest-the clichés attached to it? Paid.
your musical role models were not all too harpist, says bird, who discovered the harp during a visit to a family when she was five or six, and remained on her feet and, even then, as you’ve found your Instrument during the teen time right embarrassing. It’s called, but the name, for example, Zeena Parkins, is in the New York improv scene at home and Björk worked together.
Open song
Linda bird was looking for the Sounds and extensions of the natural harp sound, created by using her brother’s Hammers, and triggers that you can control with the Computer, and discovered new sounds, thanks to the use of effect devices. The first led to a first EP and a cover version of Bob Dylan’s “I Want You”. And now “Maps to Others”, which she recorded together with the percussionist Vincent Glanzmann.
Nine Songs on the engaging Album – the song form, even if Linda bird interprets this open, helped her, “my musical ideas together”. Because as the words are, for example, in the setting of John Donne’s “No Man Is an Island”, this nearly 500-year-old Text, the acts of Brexit-present as up to date and you orchestrated, almost solemnly. She sings then, to dialect, in a miniature “Dasii”, which is based on a simple wordplay. And there are songs that have to travel far, as “Saria” that is thanks to the harp space and time.
feeling Here, if something like transcendence appears, which characterises so many harp music, is most clearly to: Linda bird plays defiantly against the original sound of your instrument: “Why should I not avail myself of the clichés and all the beautiful things of the harp?”, she asks rhetorically. But Yes: “It is a tightrope walk.”
Linda bird: Maps to Others (Radicalis). Concert: 26. April, Helsinki, Zurich.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 25.04.2019, 18:33 PM
