Palladium, Cologne, Germany23rd October 2023
Röyksopp - “TrueElectric EU Tour 2023”
Norway’s premium electronic musician RÖYKSOPP are coming for an exclusive show to Germany on October 23rd in Cologne with album trilogy ‘Profound Mysteries I-III’. RÖYKSOPP is one of the most style-defining and internationally successful electronic acts in Europe in the new millennium. The duo, which was founded in Tromsø in 1998, was able to impress immediately with the release of their debut album ‘Melody AM’. It’s the beginning of a good decade in which RÖYKSOPP advance from sound-aesthetic innovators to a globally acclaimed top act in electronic music, with multimedia concert events that rank among the most exciting of the entire genre.
Speaking of multimedia: every Apple user should know at least one song by RÖYKSOPP, because back in 2001 the company licensed their piece ‘Eple’ (Norwegian for “apple”) as a welcome melody after successfully installing their operating system. But their dreamy, yet always driving sound was also well received in the traditional music world: Two Grammy nominations and winning seven Spellemann prizes are wonderful proof of this.
After the outstanding success of the debut, the two created four more fantastic and internationally successful albums until 2014. What is special - especially for a purely electronic act - is that they largely do without digital support in the production of their music and prefer to generate their sounds from analogue, sometimes downright archaic old retro synthesizers. On top of that, they invited a handful of interesting guest vocalists for each album in order to make their albums as heterogeneous and exciting as possible, including Anneli Drecker (BEL CANTO), Erlend Øye (KINGS OF CONVENIENCE), Robyn and Lykke Li. Conversely, they delivered exciting remixes for many stars, including COLDPLAY, Peter Gabriel, THE STREETS and ROOTS MANUVA.
After the two musicians and producers Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland decided in 2014 that their fifth album ‘The Inevitable End’ would be RÖYKSOPP’s last long player and they actually only released individual singles in the following eight years, the surprising about-face followed in 2022: With ‘Profound Mysteries’ not only a sixth album was released in April of the same year - at the same time the two announced that this is only the first part of a concept trilogy, which compositionally captures the state of the world and its humanity and illustrates it sonically. It is precisely this intensive understanding of the mystical relationship between people, music and nature that characterizes RÖYKSOPP’s sounds and songs, which are now also visually reflected in 30 short films for each individual track in the trilogy. The second part of ‘Profound Mysteries’ was released on August 19th, the final third part followed on November 18th an exclusive, completely sold-out Germany show in Berlin. Now the formation is coming to Germany again: on October 23 at the Palladium in Cologne.
Additional Concert Info
Doors: 18:30
Start: 20:00
Tickets: Tickets for the concert are available from Thursday, June 15, 11 a.m. exclusively via eventim.de. From Friday, June 16, 11 a.m., tickets are available from 42.50 euros plus fees at all known CTS advance booking offices and via the hotline +49 (0)1806 - 570070 (0.20 €/call from a landline, cell phone max €0.60/call), on fkpscorpio.com and Eventim.
Info: https://prime-entertainment.de/veranstaltung/roeyksopp/
Picture by Stian Anderen
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