Agnes Obel Concert @ The Hall, Zürich - TH 05.03.2020 - Just Because
Agnes Obel Concert at The Hall, Zürich on TH 05.03.2020

Agnes Obel

TH 05.03.2020
The Hall, Zürich
Concert

POSTPONEMENT OF CONCERTS: AGNES OBEL

Due to the decision of the Swiss Federal Council and based on the Swiss law on epidemics prevention, article 6, all upcoming public events above 1’000 attendees are forced to being cancelled, as of February 28, 10.30h. The ban for now lasts until March 15, 2020 but could be prolonged.

Therefore, we were forced to postpone the following concerts, but fortunately we were already able to confirm the following substitution dates:

Agnes Obel from Thursday March 5th 2020 in Zurich

Agnes Obel from Friday March 6th 2020 in Lausanne

THE NEW DATES ARE:

Saturday, 27. June 2020, Samsung Hall, Zürich

Sunday, 28. June 2020, Salle Metropole, Lausanne

All tickets already bought remain valid for the new dates, and will not be refunded.

We thank you for your understanding.

Just Because


Established as a major star across Europe, Agnes Obel has sold over a million copies of her first two albums, ‘Philharmonics’ (2010) and ‘Aventine’ (2013), and her songs have been streamed over 250 million times.

It was during Agnes Obel’s extensive tour with 'Aventine', the Danish artist’s bestselling and critically acclaimed album from 2013, when the title and leitmotif for her next work surfaced in her mind: ‘Citizen of Glass’, an album that would conceptually and thematically revolve around the transparency symbolised by the ubiquitous substance.

Inspired by modern composers, who often have a title or theme that runs like a golden thread through their music, Agnes Obel started to explore ways the concept could be woven into her classical approach to music. With ‘Citizen of Glass’ the songwriter, pianist and producer experimented with her vocals in inventive new ways to manipulate, split and fragment them into alternative versions of her own voice “in order to make my vocals sound like they are being alternately noticed and disregarded”, as she describes it.

As well as a newfound joy of vocal manipulation, a number of different instruments have been incorporated into Agnes Obel’s sound universe, all with great success. For instance, an old instrument, the Trautonium, resembling a synthesiser from the 1920s, can be heard throughout ‘Citizen of Glass’. Other old and new instruments and sounds—glass harps, the mellotron, the vibraphone, the luthéal piano and the cembalo, a harpsichord from the Renaissance—mix blood with Agnes Obel’s simple piano and vocals.

Her next album will be released at the beginning of 2020.

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