[香港] Bang Gang – Forever Now – Live In Hong Kong

Bang Gang – Forever Now – Live In Hong Kong

日期Date : 1st October 2014
時間Time : 8:00PM

票價Ticket : $250(Advance) $300(Door)
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地點 Venue：Hidden Agenda
香港牛頭角大業街15-17號永富工業大廈2樓A室
2A, Wing Fu Industrial Bldg, 15-17 Tai Yip Street,
Kwun Tong, Hong Kong

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Ticket Outlet :
實現會社 The Coming Society
2/F Foo Tak Building, 365 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai
灣仔軒尼詩道365號富德樓2/F

White Noise Records(NEW LOCATION)
Tel: 2591 0499
1/F, 720 Shanghai Street, Kowloon (Prince Edward C2 EXIT, close to Metropark Hotel Mongkok)
九龍上海街720號1樓（太子站C2出口, 近旺角维景酒店）

Star Crossed Tattoo
Tel : 3427 3820
尖沙咀加連威老道57號2樓
2/F, 57 Granville Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

Zoo Records (NEW LOCATION)
Tel : 2309 2911
旺角彌敦道608號Chic 之堡3樓316 號鋪
Shop 316, Level 3, No.608 Nathan Road, Mong Kok

Day Dream Music
Tel : 2988 1893
旺角上海街512號二樓全層 (朗豪坊旁)
1/F, 512 Shanghai St, Mong Kok, Hong Kong (Next to Langham Palace)
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「人們總是問我，為甚麼冰島的音樂如此特殊？
原因就是，這裡所有樂隊都知道自己的音樂不是傳遞給收音機前的聽眾，他們都知道，在冰島，他們的唱片賣不到200張，所以我們做的音樂是只按照自己的喜好而做。」

在這個人口只有約二十萬的國家裡，在近十幾年來出現了一批個性獨特的樂隊。Bang Gang就是其中一支在讓人一聽難忘的樂隊。主音 Bardi Johannsson 擁有一把難忘的聲音，配合憂傷的曲底下，你會感覺到音樂帶來一下又一下銳利的傷感。這個十月，Bang Gang 將在亞洲展開巡演，讓我們感受冰島那世界盡頭的冷酷感覺。

Bardi Johannsson, a tall Icelandic man, has been playing under the name Bang Gang since 1996, and only started using his real name eight years ago. First came the very atmospheric You (2000), with surprisingly soft, vaporous outlines for someone with such a violent stage name. 2003 confirmed Bardi’s talent as a composer, performer and producer. Two simultaneous albums made him a major figure of musical melancholy: Something Wrong, Bang Gang’s second album, where the softness of the acoustic songs meets adventurous electronic explorations; and Lady & Bird, a side-project for an androgynous duo with the talented artist Keren Ann. Hot on the success of these two creations, but never over-confident, Bardi toured Europe, Japan and the USA before vanishing back to his anonymous activities, away from the limelight. He is a complete artist and devotes himself to an assortment of subjects and styles, always keeping the same aesthetic awareness: he admits to an inclination to both the roughest hard-rock and Ennio Morricone or Serge Gainsbourg, and says that limiting his artistic expression only to music would make him feel frustration and suffering. In the past five years, he has been anything but idle: he co-directed a short film (Red Death, screened at the Pompidou Centre in 2004), produced and wrote lyrics for several Icelandic artists, and composed a soundtracks (Haxan, 2005).

Nevertheless, and for our greatest pleasure, Bardi has returned to his first love: songwriting. For, once again, that is what this third album is: a collection of songs. Extremely well-written songs, full of melodic outbursts, the likes of which are rarely seen these days; with careful arrangements and coherence, but still diverse. From the pop manifest to the almost metallic influences of a hit, I Know You Sleep is an irresistible pop-rock track; the emotional crescendo and the almost mystical rise of the opera singer on Ghost from the Past will bring tears to your eyes; and Don’t Feel Ashamed is an ethereal delicacy, a sublime composition worthy of the best of The Lotus Eaters or The Cocteau Twins. Bardi proves here, if needed, the extent of his talent.

Bardi Johannsson loves mysteries and eclecticism; he is always ready to take the least expected detours. Like the spectres evoked in this third album, Ghosts from the Past, he sometimes disappears and reappears, but his music never ceases to haunt us.
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