A nomad sings of home
The heat of the Danish summer lasts only a bit longer than a fruit fly's life span.
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Danish musician Bjarke Bendtsen, a singer-songwriter who performs under the moniker The Migrant, sought to capture the magic of the short-lived season of his native land with his debut album "Travels in Lowland."
"There's a lot of Danish summer in that record," Bendtsen says. "When I hear my record, I think of friends with not very much clothes and fun."
Bendtsen first started working on the psychedelic-folk album in the summer of 2009 while staying with friends on the Southern Danish coast.
"We recorded it in a summer house," the 29-year-old recalls. "The people who played at the recording session didn't know the songs very well, but they knew each other quite well, so it was more of a drinking red wine thing."
"Travels in Lowland" certainly doesn't sound like the work of a gaggle of imbibers. The cushiony lull of a long list of instruments - kazoo, clarinet, guitar, flute, cello, glockenspiel - mixed wi
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