How It is Now Girls In Airports

• 1Kabul04:42
• 2Bes05:41
• 3Curtain of Life05:19
• 4Ember04:54
• 5Plants04:53
• 6Sachette04:29
• 71806:16
• 8Cabin03:01
• 9Yield04:54
• Total Runtime44:09

Info for How It is Now

Powerfully emotive and sounding even dreamier and more reflective than ever Danish band Girls in Airports are back with How It Is Now (Kaja Records - 3 stars). They chart waters few know. Genreless given how their approach asks as many questions as it requires definitive answers - yet usually they are thought of as a jazz act - think terrain found somewhere between Mammal Hands or pre-electronica era early Portico Quartet circa Knee-Deep in the North Sea. The overall harmonic texture is driven by the keys with very strong percussion and drums support. Hypnotic live when their generous vamps and sense of groove can grip you most strongly the best track here is 'Ember'. Charismatic saxist-flautist Martin Stender writes the tunes with the band. 'Sachette' is moving and it all sounds so original and sealed in their own artistry.

Airports are a unique human habitat: places of wonder and excitement that offer the magical ability to be standing next to someone in the morning and on the other side of the world by the afternoon. They are, in JG Ballard’s phrase, gateways to infinite possibilities. They also attract emotions, resonating with the joy of meeting, the sadness of parting, fear and exhilaration. In Fables Girls in Airports synthesize these emotional states in a concise and profoundly personal way.

Girls in Airports’ story is as peculiar as their name and follows the skewed logic of the airport. Formed by a group of friends and fellow students from Copenhagen, initially gigs were local and on the small side – parties, small clubs. One early concert was in a record shop in the hip Nørrebro district where the band is based. The shop was tiny and soon packed out. It happened that two promoters were in town, a Chinese agent and one from Brazil. Both had heard about this new band and come down to check them out – unfortunately they couldn’t get in but must have been impressed by what they saw and heard through the window as the band were offered tours in China and Brazil. Without any management or a record deal Girls in Airports had become an international touring sensation. South Korea, New York, Germany, Portugal, London and Belfast soon followed.

Girl in Airports:
Martin Stender, saxophones, flute, keyboards
Mathias Holm, keyboards, organ, piano
Victor Dybbroe, drums, gongs, percussive sounds
Anders Vestergaard, drums, cymbals

Girls in Airports
captivating soundscape crosses musical genres and geographical borders. Combining jazz, indie and urban folk into a unique expression of heart stirring melody-laden elegiac hooks and dance-friendly globally-influenced rhythms.

Formed in 2009 and Based in Copenhagen, the Danish award-winning band has released three albums and toured in the USA, Asia, Brazil and across Europe.

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