Description
Eclectic Danish troubadour, KRISTIAN HARTING, returns with a new twelve song album, Summer Of Crush, to be released via Exile on Mainstream on worldwide on October 30th, 2015.
While KRISTIAN HARTING’s debut solo LP, 2014’s Float, melded ethereal song-writing deeply inspired by Western lo-fi pop, Mali blues and avant-garde folk, on the upcoming Summer Of Crush, the artist recalibrates towards a more pop-orientated approach, the resulting album oscillating between melancholic dreamscapes, swells of articulate outpourings and synth-laden shamanic dance tracks.
Working over a sustained period of time to shape imaginary forms and sketches into lucid sound collages, the twelve tracks were written, played and recorded solely by HARTING himself. Armed with his guitars, loop pedals, a foot-operated synth and analogue electronics, his work in Summer Of Crush is a series of captivating, emotional and at times, disconcerting, trips. The collection of influences that feed in to these songs are like mysterious far-flung stamps on the Danish born musician's passport, and the tales that he has to tell root you to the spot with their sparkling vivacity and intimate composure.
KRISTIAN HARTING started young, playing in thrash metal bands such as Avoid in the early 90’s, before progressing further into songwriting and alternative noisy pop, forming bands including Dr. Berg, Solskaer and Tomato. He’s since worked with renowned musicians such as Jacob Krogholt (Rising, Bjoerst, Withering Surface), Mick Grondahl (Jeff Buckley, Beth Orthon) and Jesper Bo Hansen (Anne Linnet, Ida Gaard) in addition to producers Kim Hüttel (Sort Sol, The Sandmen) and Magnus Groth (Sort Sol, Kira and the Kindred Spirits). In 2004, he formed DreamJockey with Mads Beldring and Jakob Falgren, and released the album Wake Up Rock (Tone Tribunalet) in 2006, before evolving into a duo with Mads Beldring for their second LP, Earthquakes, Religion and Heartaches (Divine Records, 2011).
In recent times, HARTING has toured across Europe extensively with Future Islands -- who recently returned again to play two sold-out shows alongside him at the Vega venue in Harting’s hometown of Copenhagen -- and with Exile On Mainstream labelmates Conny Ochs and Friedemann.
Summer Of Crush will also be accompanied by a serious set of live shows and a large European tour in early 2016.
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