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| FIRST MARTIN HALL CONCERTS IN THREE YEARS |  During the autumn of 2009 Martin Hall gives a series of rare live performances in both Denmark and Germany. As interested parties will know, Hall has played surprisingly few live-concerts during his career, but in relation to his 30th anniversary as a performing artist it will be possible to catch the Danish legend at the following occasions:
1. Sunday the 8th of November: With 8-piece ensemble at The Danish National Radio (Copenhagen).
2. Friday the 30th of October: At Saint Paul’s Church (Århus).
3. Saturday the 24th of October: Premiere concert with full ensemble at Hotel des Nordens (Germany).
4. Friday the 11th of September: Hall + Else Marie Pade at Kulturmaskinen (Odense).
You can read more about each separate event in the following notices. |
 | HALL LIVE IN KONCERTHUSET IN DR-BYEN (NOVEMBER 8) |  After three years’ exile from the live stage Martin Hall gives his first concert performance with full backing band in the capitol of Denmark, Copenhagen, on Sunday the 8th of November 20.00 CET. This event will take place in Koncerthuset in DR-byen, the brand new concert hall of The Danish National Radio.
This concert furthermore marks MH’s 30th anniversary as a professional musician and live performer due to the fact that a (very) young Hall made his debut as a singer at the legendary Danish punk festival Concert of the Moment on November 9 back in 1979 (at a long gone venue called Saltlageret, the place where acts such as Nico and New Order all played when visiting Denmark before the place was closed at the end of the 80’s). On this occasion MH gave his first concert with his new group Identity, a band which two months later changed their name to Ballet Mécanique. The rest is history.
The concert in DR-byen will take place in Studie 2 in relation to a later transmission. Like the two preceding concerts in Århus and Germay the Hall live-ensemble is said to feature Johnny Stage (guitar, keyboards), Mikkel Meyer (electronics), Henriette Groth (piano, würlitzer, viola), Ida Bach Jensen (double-bass), Karoliina Koivisto (violin), Carla Kuotila (cello) as well as Sisse Selina Larsen (percussion).
Tickets will be on sale from Friday the 19th of June via www.billetnet.dk. |
| HALL LIVE AT THE SAINT PAUL’S CHURCH IN ÅRHUS (OCT 30) |  On Friday the 30th of October 19.00 CET Martin Hall plays at the Saint Paul’s Church in the Danish town Århus in connection with the yearly Recession Festival where he will feature as the 2009 main event. The concert with Hall will be arranged as an independent event after which you then can go on to such venues as Voxhall to catch the rest of the festival line-up that night.
The concert at the Saint Paul’s Church will be the second of all in all three live appearances during the autumn featuring Hall with a full ensemble. Rumour has it that the live-set will vary a bit from concert to concert, and judging from the setting of the church you might expect a surprise or two on this occasion. Check out more details about the event at Recession 2009.
The concert is arranged in collaboration with the The Århus Academy of Fine Arts who also will be involved in the visual design of the arrangement. You can buy tickets at www.gaffabillet.dk. |
| HALL LIVE AT HOTEL DES NORDENS IN GERMANY (OCT 24) |  On Saturday the 24th of October 19.30 CET Martin Hall plays his first of all in all three concerts as a singer during the autumn of 2009 at Hotel des Nordens in Flensborg, Germany. The hotel is situated very close to the Danish border, so obviously it will also be possible to book an overnight accommodation in one of the hotel’s many rooms.
The concert will, as already stated, be the first in a series of three concerts with full backing band after a three year pause from any live events. Each of these concerts (Hotel des Nordens, Sct. Paul’s Church in Århus and the final performance at the new concert house in The Danish National Radio, Copenhagen) will differentiate slightly – partly due to the mood and place of each separate location, but also in terms of the expected set-lists.
However, the concert at Hotel des Nordens will be a lot more than merely a concert. The enormous facility will also house a small Hall exhibition featuring original graphic works (where you’ll be able to buy an original piece of signed Hall artwork – a first time ever offer), present newly composed at different times in different parts of the hotel as well as offer the audience readings and minor performances before and after the concert itself. It will also be possible to enjoy a glass of correctly served absinth in the hotel’s strangely luring Tanzbar Marlene’s both before the musical performance as well as during the festivities of the night, since The Danish Absinth Association enriches the event with its presence.
A specific timetable for the whole of the day and the night will follow at a later point, but you are able to book one out of three “packages” for the concert already now:
A. Ticket for the concert only (19.30 CET): Kr. 199 DKK (26 EUR).
B. Three-course dinner with wines (17.30 CET) + ticket for the concert: Kr. 349 DKK (46 EUR).
C. Three-course dinner with wines, ticket for the concert + overnight accommodation including breakfast the following day: 499 DKK (66 EUR).
You can order your ticket and/or stay at www.billetten.dk. For non-Danish speaking you can contact the hotel for further information: info@hotel-des-nordens.com.
The nearest train station to the hotel is Padborg. From here you take a taxi to the hotel, which is situated 5 km. from the station (approximately 75 DKK/10 EUR including start fee). |
| ELSE MARIE PADE AND HALL AT ROBODAYS 2009 |  On Friday the 11th of September 20.00 CET Martin Hall and legendary Danish composer (a pioneer in Danish electronic music, currently aged 84) Else Marie Pade perform their new common work Montage R/O in relation with the RoboDays Festival 2009, a three day long event running from September 10–12 in the Danish city of Odense.
The location of this fairly unique will be Kulturmaskinen at Magasinet. Hall and Pade will be working with reel-to-reel recorders, old-fashioned oscillators as well as modern day computers. As the title suggests, the performed work will be a montage of sounds, voices, electronics and documentary recordings.
Recently Hall and EMP performed together on MH’s current and highly appraised album Hospital Cafeterias, an occasion where they contributed with one of the record’s central tracks, the composition ”P.O.”. The concert, however, will be the first time they perform together live.
Apart from Hall and EMP the night will also feature the young Danish electronic musician and whiz kid Mike Sheridan. Tickets will be available soon. |
| HALL-PREFACE TO NEW DANISH BAUDELAIRE TRANSLATION |  On June 26 the independent Danish publishing firm Det Poetiske Bureaus Forlag (The Poetic Bureau) releases the so far most extensive collection of Danish translations of Charles Baudelaire's prose writings, Udvalgt Prosa ('Selected Prose').
The release has been translated by af Luna Tirée de la Brume and is illustrated by Thomas Faber.
The publication's 515 pages is introduced with a preface written by Martin Hall, a writing about the artist entitled "The Poet, the Priest and the Soldier".
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| THE NEW MARTIN HALL ALBUM MET WITH FANTASTIC REVIEWS |  Martin Hall's latest studio album Hospital Cafeterias has received a line of overwhelming reviews. In the following section we bring you a short overview of some of the quotes and appraisals Hall has received in relation to the release.
Among the list of participants on the album you’ll find artists such as Claus Beck-Nielsen Memorial, Marquis Marcel de Sade as well as members of the renowned Danish band Efterklang.
Politiken (The Danish equivalent to The Guardian): "Exceptional: In the wild growing Martin Hall catalogue ’Hospital Cafeterias’ is both a concentrate as well as a climax in his production." (5 out of 6 hearts)
Soundvenue (The Danish equivalent to Q Magazine): “A varied and beautiful album: Hall balances self-assured on the knife edge between decadence and humility, to a degree where you can be nothing but fascinated.” (5 out of 6 stars)
Information (The Danish equivalent to The Independent): ”Best album since 2001. Outstanding.”
Undertoner: “Hall is a pioneer who still searches for the absolute limit." (5 out of 6 stars)
MetroXpress: “Magnificent!” (5 out of 6 stars)
Skopet: ”Grandiose and generous.” (4 out of 5 stars)
Voxhall: ”An extraordinary and spectacular experience. Wow!!!!”
Grenzwellen: ”Desolaten Atmosphäre und desperaten Intensität.”
Ernesto Tomasini: "’Hospital Cafeterias’ is a masterpiece! A beautiful masterpiece!”
You can hear a selection of the tracks from the album on the new Hospital Cafeterias Site.
You can order the cd here or download here: 
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| NEW REMIX OUT FEBRUARY 23: HALL VS. LEÆTHER STRIP |  Danish industrial star Leæther Strip who has recorded his own version of the Martin Hall/Front & Fantasy classic “Treatment” for his forthcoming tribute album Ængelmaker (expected release April 2009), has just remixed another Hall signature song: ”Another Heart Laid Bare” from the recently re-relased ’Random Hold’ album.
The new remix linking these careers together has been entitled Heart Laid Bare and will be available from February 23 – entirely as download. You will be able to get it from iTunes as well as Leæther Strip’s MySpace profile.
Both artists have received the Klub Golem award, a price given to a person or group of people who have exerted substantial significance on the Danish underground scene. Hall received the award in 2007, Leæther Strip in 2008.
Buy the remix here:
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| ‘RANDOM HOLD’ SPECIAL EDITION |  Alongside the new ‘Hospital Cafeteria’ cd, MH re-releases one of his finest works ever, his 1996 album Random Hold. Among other achievements the title still figures on the list over the 50 most important releases in Danish rock in Politikens Rockleksikon (the ultimate Danish rock encyclopedia).
Having been out of stock since 2001 'Random Hold' will be reissued in a special edition featuring over 30 minutes of additional material from the original recording sessions. Outside of Scandinavia 'Random Hold' has also been released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, where it received excellent reviews as well. You can order the cd here.
You can also buy the album as download: |
| ‘APPARENTLY ALL THE SAME’ SPECIAL EDITION |  As the third and final release on February 2, MH also re-releases the Under For album Apparently All The Same – without doubt one of his most significant releases during the eighties. Originally launched in the spring of 1984, the 2009 version comes as a special edition featuring the group’s legendary concert at The ISCM World Music Days in November 1983 (a radical performance with some resemblance to Hall's already canonized work 'Inskription').
'Apparently All The Same' was one of the very few Danish releases from the period that got hyped by both New Musical Express and Sounds. The re-release marks the album's 25th anniversary. You can order the cd here.
You can also buy the album as download:
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| TITLE: |
Hospital Cafeterias |
| ARTIST: |
Martin Hall |
| RELEASED: |
February 2009 |
| LABEL: |
Panoptikon |
| CAT. NO.: |
OPTIK 15 |
| CATEGORY: |
CD |
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| TITLE: |
Vagtloes Mand Under Truende Sky |
| AUTHOR: |
Martin Hall |
| RELEASED: |
December 2008 |
| PUBLISHER: |
Lindhardt og Ringhof |
| ISBN: |
9788711431184 |
| CATEGORY: |
Diary |
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