Danish & Blue

Description

After the hiatus of their band Grails, Emil Amos and Alex Hall set out in search of a new sound for their project Lilacs & Champagne. Their first self-titled release in 2012 was filled with samples recorded all over the world. Their second album Danish & Blue is both longer and more ambitious. In 1969, Denmark became the first country to legalize pornography, and dominated this market for a few years before being imitated by the rest of the world. This album is directly inspired by this part of the country’s history, some of whose most obscure productions had their soundtracks sampled for this project. Of deviant and ravaged beauty, Lilacs & Champagne displays a sense of humor and an aesthetic pursuit that escape conventional commercial classifications. L&C takes up this practice launched by hip hop of rummaging through the back of drawers in search of forgotten recordings to rearrange them in its own way. Danish Blue is in fact situated at a point where retro and avant-garde meet to create music that is both funny and mysterious.