The second stage at Agder Teater – the Alfa Room – will as always be a laboratory for musical experimentation and innovation. The Live Remixes are based on sound samples and inspiration from the preceding Main Stage concerts, and are Punkt’s trademark, the idea that the festival was built around five years ago.
Among the guests joining musicians, producers and festival founders Jan Bang and Erik Honoré for these improvised sessions, are steel guitarist BJ Cole (Sylvian, Eno, Hector Zazou, Elvis Costello), Norwegian guitar innovator Eivind Aarset, German drummer, producer and composer J. Peter Schwalm, Splashgirl pianist Andreas Stensland Løwe, the american live-sampler J.A. Deane (Jon Hassell etc), and members of the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Peter Tornqvist. Also, Bugge Wesseltoft has invited Japanese singer akiko to join him in a combined live remix/concert in the Alfa Room
Written by: vidar,13.08.2009
