On Saturday the 21:st of November Big Engband will premiere the concert program “Yokai” at Etnografiska muséet in Stockholm in connection with the finishing of the museum’s exhibition about Japanese ghosts with the same name. The repertoire is written for a female and a male vocalist, and is in its entirety composed by me, Daniel, with inspiration from the Japanese lore about supernatural phenomenons and entities.

The songs span a wide range of styles, meters and tempos, but are all a synthesis between my western perspective and traditions, with my perception of, and contact with, Japanese cultural expressions and phenomenons. Though the overarching theme is ghosts, and preternatural phenomenons, the basic prerequisite for the music and the lyrics is that everything has its solid fundament and origin with life and the living. That life and living form the intellectual base for the imaginations of what surrounds our time as living beings in life.

The concert starts at 14:00 hrs and concert length is about ninety minutes. To come to the museum’s main calendar presentation, please follow this link: https://www.etnografiskamuseet.se/kalendarium/program/yokai–the-concert/

Very Welcome!