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Mira Calix and Midaircondo

Photo from Midaircondo.com

I saw Mira Calix and Midaircondo in Copenhagen last night. I was really pleased to see some relatively esoteric music here, because that doesn't happen too often (not likely to happen again soon either because there were only about 20 people in the crowd).

Midaircondo were a real treat. They're three women from Sweden (only two were on stage), playing an ethereal mix of loops and samples, with some looped video scenes of city life at night on a huge screen behind them. They sounded like a mixture of Boards of Canada and the Norwegian band Flunk. Check out their site and listen to some mp3s... they're very chill.

Mira Calix was more experimental, and also did the mixture of esoteric music with some fascinating video in the background--waves breaking in a sea of grass, with strangely high resolution and high contrast seagulls dodging around in the sky. I just wish she'd have played longer. The set was only about an hour long, which meant about four songs. Good stuff anyway.

Posted by case at November 28, 2004 05:40 PM