Third revolution
The creation of light in Genesis is narrated with unusual simplicity: the alleged divine power created it and that’s all, no further details. He or “it” separated the light from the darkness creating day and night. It seems that the deity is not always connected to the culture. In fact, it makes sense: the monotheistic divinity is omnipresent while culture always absent (usually football is more attractive). It ignored a light that is not only daytime, which is less classifiable and can be dangerous. The Swiss singer Sophie Hunger brings her own light and warns us that it is not a safe one. Her latest album "The danger of light" comes to crown a trilogy of success in her own country and already out of it. Somewhere between Switzerland, Germany (her latest video "Souldier" is shot in Berlin) and England, Sophie Hunger is a special blend, personal, intense, playful and diverse. She alternates several languages in her songs sliding her words between winds and strings, wave to wave, rhythm to rhythm. And now her album has a deluxe edition including covers of classics like "Ne me quittes pas" of the Belgian Jacques Brel. The Sophie’s "Rererevolution" is going to give us a long time of great songs, that we can be sure.
Her presentation concert at Sala Apolo in Barcelona was a success. She won new audiences song by song along her perfomance and did not disappoint those who already knew her albums. Sophie played accompanied by three musicians composing a virtuoso band, with muscle in the in crescendo energy songs and gently subtle in the slow tempos, creating a sound always elegant and very honest. And she gift us a version of the late Lhasa de Sela singing in Spanish in one of the more intense moments of the concert. The silence was thick and Sophie's voice was deep and strong. Another highpoint was her Train people with the image of passengers trapped in a hopeless train moving. With the theme Can you see me?, dense, accurate and almost hurtful, we wonder a question whose answer from us is a yes forever.
Sophie Hunger | Videos here
Text by Juan Carlos Romero
Sophie Hunger website www.sophiehunger.com
Photo courtesy of Two Gentlemen. © 2012 Sophie Hunger
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Her presentation concert at Sala Apolo in Barcelona was a success. She won new audiences song by song along her perfomance and did not disappoint those who already knew her albums. Sophie played accompanied by three musicians composing a virtuoso band, with muscle in the in crescendo energy songs and gently subtle in the slow tempos, creating a sound always elegant and very honest. And she gift us a version of the late Lhasa de Sela singing in Spanish in one of the more intense moments of the concert. The silence was thick and Sophie's voice was deep and strong. Another highpoint was her Train people with the image of passengers trapped in a hopeless train moving. With the theme Can you see me?, dense, accurate and almost hurtful, we wonder a question whose answer from us is a yes forever.
Sophie Hunger | Videos here
Text by Juan Carlos Romero
Sophie Hunger website www.sophiehunger.com
Photo courtesy of Two Gentlemen. © 2012 Sophie Hunger
All Rights Reserved