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- artist:Phønix
- featured artist:Phønix
- release year:2002
- style(s):Folk
- country:Denmark
- formats:CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:Phønix
- label:GO' Danish Folk Music
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The Girl and the Boy" is Phønix's fourth but it is the first release from the band to contain both vocal and instrumental music. The numbers on the album are a mixture of newly composed tunes and texts taken from the treasure trove of Scandinavian folk poetry and song. The texts add a whole new dimension to the unique Phønix style and sound, of original and complicated arrangements. The melodies and words weave elegantly around one another and create a living and intense whole.
The title number "The Girl and the Boy" is a story about a young couple that meet on the dance floor, and is in a way a microcosm of all the album's songs. They all contain a meeting for better or for worse, between two opposing forces; order and chaos, justice and repression, life and death, stupidity and intelligence, beauty and ugliness or male and female.
With this album Phønix is yet again pushing back the boundaries of the Danish music tradition, taking a number of relevant, human songs, and bringing them into the new millennium in new clothes.
"In short, Phonix haven't put a foot wrong in the creation of this CD, and its appeal should extend far beyond Denmark and the Danish Diaspora" - Stephen Hunt, Greenman review
Read the rest of this review at: www.greenmanreview.com
"Phønix has been for a long while one of the most exciting bands from Denmark, if not from Europe. The addition of the singer can only add to the band's attraction. Absolutely wonderful stuff!" - Michael Moll, Folkworld