Live
with Golden Age of Ballooning
with The Laurels. Presented by 2ser.
with ORB + Krakatau + Psychedelic Coven DJs. Presented by Triple R.
with special guests.
3-6 August, Specific day TBC
*Performing live score to The Adventures of Prince Achmed
About
In between the release of Dungen’s most recent two albums (2010’s Skit i allt and 2015’s Allas sak), the beloved Stockholm quartet was asked to create an original score to Lotte Reiniger’s 1926 touchstone The Adventures of Prince Achmed, understood to be the oldest surviving full-length animated feature film. Inspired by the work and the characters – Prince Achmed, Peri Banu, Aladdin, the Sorcerer, and most of all, the Witch – the members of Dungen immersed themselves into the groundbreaking visual language of this landmark silent film.
Häxan (translation: “The Witch”) is Dungen’s first all-instrumental album. Produced by Mathias Glavå, and recorded, mixed, and edited by hand to tape entirely in the analog domain, Häxan was sequenced away from the linear narrative of the film. This process helped to create a path of its own, fully capturing the rawness and spontaneity present in the sessions, as well as a loose, abstract, and fragmented collage feel, evident in the dense and dissonant free-form rock-outs, haunting ambient passages, and gorgeously cinematic soundscapes present in the work, a record that stands on its own outside of the presence of its primary inspiration.
Moody, evocative, stormy, and brimming with life, Häxan provides both a tacit summation of the Dungen journey up to today, and gives the beloved group a chance to stretch out like never before.
Press
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Dungen 2016
Photo by Ken Andersson -
Dungen 2016
Photo by Ken Andersson -
Dungen 2016
Photo by Ken Andersson -
Dungen 2016
Photo by Ken Andersson -
Dungen 2016
Photo by Ken Andersson -
Dungen 2016
Photo by Frank Aschberg
Contact
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Booking US
Ground Control Touring
eric@groundcontroltouring.com
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Booking Europe
Luger
robin@luger.se
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Booking Scandinavia
Live Nation
ulf@livenation.se
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Record Label US
Mexican Summer
info@mexicansummer.com
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Record Label Worldwide
Smalltown Supersound
joakim@smalltownsupersound.com