Halvcirkel & Anders Lauge Meldgaard - Fragment 94 - 1LP

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Sappho wrote the poem 'Fragment 94' in 630 BCE in ancient Greece. It is also believed that Sappho was a musician and played the lyre. Many centuries later (about 2600 years later, to be precise), composer Anders Lauge Meldgaard's Skoda burns down while driving in the Norwegian mountains. In the cabin where he lives, he finds author Mette Moestrup's rewriting of Sappho's fragmentary poems. This is where Sappho's story meets Anders Lauge Meldgaard's and later the string quartet Halvcirkel. 

Anders Lauge Meldgaard is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who works in a wide field of musical expressions, ranging from contemporary music to free improvisation over sound installations, songwriting, orchestral collages, chamber music, mixtapes, noisy works for electric guitar sextet and lately also electronic music. The tension between composition and improvisation is often used as a motivating force to propel his musical adventures.

He has formerly performed and released critically acclaimed albums under the alias Frisk Frugt. His works has been performed internationally, with previous appearances at Novas Frequências in Brazil, SuperDeluxe (JP), Grimm Museum in Berlin, Roskilde Festival (DK), Muziekgebouw (NL), Museum of Contemporary Art (DK), and a tour in China with the experimental artist collective yoyooyoy. He is a founding member of Copenhagen based music circle and record label År & Dag.

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