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By Helle Juhl Lassen, MyMusic.dk |  Foto: Didde Elnif | | |
’Bastard ethno’ – say what!? Gathering a packed tent as early as 1:20 pm. at the SPOT11-festival is really something! Not only did Afenginn attract such an impressive audience, they also got people to clap cryptic bars, break into laughter and dance something between French can-can and Irish folkdance all due to their self-invented musical style called ‘bastard ethno’ – say what?
Well, first of all ‘bastard ethno’ requires a few ‘untraditional’ instruments such as a violin, a mandolin and a huge contrabass-clarinet which played the main part as a lost elk in Afenginns programme musical fabrication called “the elk is coming”. This points to a second important ingredient of ‘bastard ethno’: musical humour, imagination and inventiveness. Afenginn had a lot of this.
In addition to the story about the elk the audience also heard a tango-inspired Niels on the Faroe Islands, a up-tempo edition of a Finish ‘humpa’ with gypsy blood and for dessert an ultravenous sulphur-cake approximately 39 second long. Confused? Well, one thing is for sure: Afenginn consists of five amazingly crazy crackpots who simply must be experienced live!
Review: 5 out of 6 stars
From: Copenhagen, Denmark
Signed to: Tutl (Faroe Islands)
Genre and reputation: World/Balkan/Folk. Among the finest Scandinavian world music bands. Has toured intensively in northern europe and has recieved nothing but the finest reviews in a large number of danish papers and magazines.
Translated by Helle Juhl Lassen, MyMusic.dk
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