Thin Dry Sticks, by Frk. Jacobsen

Thin Dry Sticks

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1.	Thin Dry Sticks 05:08	buy track
2.	Doublo 05:54	buy track
3.	Lysende Dreng 04:29	buy track
4.	Stormen 04:00	buy track
5.	Gerion 05:22	buy track
6.	Passage to the Garden 04:16	buy track
7.	Mr. & Mrs. Scorpii in the Garden 02:39	buy track
8.	Thanatos 05:38	buy track
9.	Morgen i Tokyo 02:18	buy track

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Frk. Jacobsen: Thin Dry Sticks
2018

“Thin Dry Sticks” is a new full length album by Frk. Jacobsen, the solo project of Anja Jacobsen. The album follows the critically acclaimed EP “Lobsters” from 2013. All About Jazz described Jacobsen on the EP “…as a highly original musician gifted with rich and often wild imagination and the ability to create beautiful, strange sounds over irresistible rhythms”.

“Thin Dry Sticks” explores a field of musical and emotional tensions - between earthbound realistic settings and cosmic abstractions, between ancient Greece and 2018 Copenhagen life as well as melodic pop notions and sonic experimentation. Like a playful journey through different times and situations, the album is an ode to the poetic and surreal moments that often mingle with everyday life or dreams, e.g. the song “Doublo”. Here a windy bike ride through Copenhagen is interupted by the incomprihensible experience of being two humans in one body.

The music composed by Anja Jacobsen (vocal, drums, keyboards) takes inspiration from pop all over the world as well as abstract forms of music and sound art. For example the track “Stormen” (The Storm) introduces pop produced vocals floating on a roaring sea of free improvisation and noise. Throughout most of the album a band is playing, consisting of Lars Bech Pilgaard (guitar), Lil Lacy (keyboards, choir, cello) and Nicolai Kaas Claesson (bass, cello) - all contributing with personal flare and creative musicalities.

The texts are arranged as a play where different characters enter the stage and sing their lines. The mother Ida and her daughter Miranda are the main characters, but also the elderly married couple Mr. and Mrs. Scorpii as well as Thanatos (death) and the poet Stesichoros appear. The idea of a play origins from the experience of an individual as something which consists of many different layers and roles at the same time. The self is not static but something that comes into existence and changes through its relations with the world around it. The album “Thin Dry Sticks” presents the many levels, tensions and roles that occur simultaneously in one person; in this case a woman who contains mother, daughter, birth, death and spouse at the same time.

The cover made by Katrine Hoffmeyer Tougård is a garden plan which is both a drawing of the different settings where the play unfolds and the garden in which Miranda meets Mr. and Mrs. Scorpii before she travels into outer space.

Anja Jacobsen is also leader of Valby Vokalgruppe, co-composer and drummer in the band Selvhenter as well as co-founder of the art collective Eget Værelse.

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Act I (Side A)

Thin Dry Sticks 5.08
Doublo 5.54
Lysende Dreng 4.29
Stormen 4.00

Act II (Side B)
Gerion 5.22
Passage to the Garden 4.16
Mr. and Mrs. Scorpii in the Garden 2.39
Thanatos 5.38
Morgen i Tokyo 2.19

Artist: Frk. Jacobsen 
Title: Thin Dry Sticks
Format: 12” vinyl incl. mp3 download kode
Label: Eget Værelse 
Distribution: Rillbar Distribution 
Catalogue number: EVLP14 
Cover: Katrine Hoffmeyer Tougård 
Recording: Peter Barnow, Studiet på Frederiksberg
Mix: Andreas Pallisgaard and Anja Jacobsen 
Master: Andreas Pallisgaard

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released September 26, 2018

Lars Bech Pilgaard: guitar
Lil Lacy: vocal, keyboards, cello
Nicolai Kaas Claesson: bass, cello
Anja Jacobsen: drums, lead vocals, keyboards

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Frk. Jacobsen Copenhagen, Denmark

Anja Jacobsen is a composer, drummer and singer from Copenhagen, DK. She is behind Frk. Jacobsen as well as leader of Valby Vokalgruppe, co-composer and drummer in the band Selvhenter and co-founder of the art collective Eget Værelse.

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I HAVEN

Jun 2023
Thin Dry Sticks

Sep 2018
Lobsters

Nov 2013

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