Frisk Frugt with Orchestra feat. Kim Grønborg

Work for Live Art Denmark
2014: Frisk Frugt and Orchestra at Hitparaden 2

Fresh Fruit is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Anders Lauge Meldgaard. Since he debuted as Fresh Fruit with the album “Gold Trumpet” in 2006, he became a unique figure on the Danish music scene. At our Hitparaden 2 festival, Fresh Fruit played a special concert with orchestral backing and as the icing on the cake, visual artist and musician Kim Grønborg contributed visuals to the show.

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Foto: Peter Lind

About the Artist
Anders Lauge Meldgaard is the real name of the man behind Frisk Frugt. His roots are in the experimental music collective yoyooyoy, based in Berlin and Copenhagen. Together they have been involved with numerous music and art projects in over a decade. Under the alias Frisk Frugt he has released two albums, “Guldtrompeten in 2006” and “Dansktoppen møder Burkina Faso i det himmelblå rum hvor solen bor” in 2010.

Frisk Frugt (eng. Fresh Fruit) operates in his own quirky musical universe, where the genre of traditional Danish folk song writing and poetry in an unpretentious way are spiced up with elements from experimental rock, improvisation, drone, noise, electronica, lo-fi, free jazz and African high-life guitar. Here, the music arises at the intersection between the programmed and the hand played, and between the naive and the complex – where the sonorous clouds of tones from home-built instruments, brutal guitar riffs, synth dreams and saxophone improvisations are mixed together in a colourful cocktail, full of dizzy and dazed energy and containing flavours from all over the world.

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Foto: Peter Lind

Find out more on this rather experimental  website.

Om liveart_dk

Liveart.dk was founded in 2004 in Copenhagen to promote the discussion, documentation and development of live art in Denmark. The organisation is equally inspired by the imaginative and entertaining English Live Art tradition as by the theoretical and political German theatre tradition. We have organised 10 large international festivals of Live Art for kids and adults since 2004, and over 40 discussion events, books, video series, symposia and more in the field of live art, performance art, art criticism and documentation. We collaborate with theatres, music venues, art museums and festivals in Denmark and internationally.