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Maia Hirasawa in Copenhagen

2006.05.22

— Music

After several posts written by my Noisedfisk colleagues about some kind of music I’m not really into (finnish heavy metal? swedish post-rock? come on, guys!!!), I thought I had to write something about pop… i mean p!o!p!. I just posted something about Whitest Boy Alive, but I’m delighted to report about the concert Maia Hirasawa played in Copenhagen last saturday. ‘Cause I just spent a wonderful week-end in the wonderful Danish capital and it gave me the opportunity to see the wonderful Maia Hirasawa live. The regular readers of Noisedfisk might remember that Maia is the Swedish girl who recently won the Sami contest; that she can be seen on stage with her friend Annika from Hello Saferide; that she’s cute, funny and -even more important- talented…

She played live last Saturday at Café Blågårds Apotek, in front of a bunch of indie kids and other Danes who were apparently more interested in their pints of öl than in the music she played. Too bad: they should have listened more carefully, ’cause Maia and her friend Josefine Lindstrand played three sets from 9 to 11.30 and created a fantastic atmosphere. Maia is able to sing the sweetest slow tunes with a delicate voice and her acoustic guitar, but also to play some of her best melodies with energy, a good dose of fun, a piano and toys such as a plastic xylophone.

You can listen to (and obviously download) four songs on her myspace, but you’d better buy her new debut EP, titled My New Friend. And if ever you have the opportunity, go and see her play with Hello Saferide (Sweden, Denmark and… France again in the next few weeks) or with a jazztrio: they’re gonna have concerts in churches all around Sweden in July…

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