Thomas Azier
Dutch avant-pop with melancholic soundscapes | PANORAMA
After three years of relative silence, Dutch composer, producer and singer Thomas Azier returns with PANORAMA. He previously won two Edison Awards, the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik (for his second album Rouge) and a Berlin Music Video Award for Verwandlung, and is known for his strong, distinctive artistic vision on pop music.
The concert is a mosaic of perspectives and observations that unfolds through music, text and image. Live, PANORAMA takes shape in collaboration with synthesist Annelotte Coster and saxophonist Maarten Hogenhuis, supplemented with strings.
In PANORAMA, Azier deepens his melodic and melancholic signature, in which string arrangements and experimental methods converge in a series of intriguing compositions.
Thus sounds the voice of a beluga whale, lost and disoriented, swimming upstream through the Parisian Seine. An opera singer sings from the audience a passage steeped in sorrow, while a man falls silently, captured in slow motion. On stage, a speaker serves as a carrier of sound recordings, as reliquaries from a vanished world. And a poem sketches the image of a lonely Parisian boy in an abandoned, shimmering hot summer city.
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