KINGS OF CONVENIENCE
Quiet Is The New Loud
Norway

16 Mar 06
Concert Hall
7.30pm

$48

Kings Of Convenience

"The Norwegian pair creates lulling acoustic melodies and sing harmonies beautiful enough to make Simon & Garfunkel blush." - Boston Guide

With their seamless voices and delicate lush lyrics, indie-pop duo Eirik Glambek Bøe and Erlend Øye are Kings of Convenience. These goldsmiths of a bucolic brand of pop were thrust into the public eye in 2001 with a magnificent debut album Quiet is the New Loud which sold more than 200,000 copies worldwide, garnered strong reviews and a cult following to boot. Kings of Convenience is credited for spearheading the New Acoustic Movement, in the tradition of Simon and Garfunkel and Nick Drake. Fans of Belle & Sebastian and Elliott Smith would likewise be seduced by these sweater-clad dreamers.

The duo has played to sold-out concerts around the world, including the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2004, the year their second album Riot on an Empty Street was released. The album's first single, I'd Rather Dance with You topped MTV Europe's list of 2004's best music videos.

This is Kings of Convenience's first tour to Asia, and the stage is set for a night of acoustic guitars, piano melodies, twin vocal harmonies, and the melancholic songs that go straight to the heart.

MULTIMEDIA EXPERIENCE FIT FOR KINGS
A multimedia experience (a Mosaic Music Festival first) opens for Quiet is the New Loud! Designed and performed by local multi-disciplinary artist, Choy Ka Fai, Empiric Woods transforms the Concert Hall into an audio-visual experience of moving images and atmospheric soundscapes. Pre-recorded and processed material with live sampling of audio/visual interventions by audience as they enter the Concert Hall will result in a journey of abstract dreamscapes and deep drifts from reality.
An imaginary world of alienated space, forgotten fictions and faded memories. (View more at www.ka5.info)
From 7pm at Concert Hall.

(90mins, no intermission)