Agnes Obel

This week, a conversation with renowned Danish pianist, experimental composer, and atmospheric-folk songstress Agnes Obel.
Recorded high above Hollywood in the famed Capitol records building (Obel was recently signed to Blue Note Records), host Z. Lupetin takes an intimate tour of her newest work “Myopia”, which shows Obel at her most personal and aurally fearless.
Born in Copenhagen and based in Berlin, Obel’s albums warrant repeat listening, as it’s often hard to know exactly what instruments are playing at any given time. At times the darting, looping piano and quicksilver string work seem like a chamber orchestra, or maybe the songs in “Myopia” are secretly the technicolor backdrop and emotive score to a film that only she sees.
It’s been nearly a decade since her transcendent DIY debut album “Philharmonics” put her into many people’s minds (she may not be very well known yet in the States, but she is a gold-record selling underground star in many parts of Europe). This past Spring, Obel was supposed to be playing the expansive Greek Theater in Los Angeles before Covid-19 forced her to stay in Berlin, which for an artist that creates hushed, often lyricless songs you probably can’t dance to, is an impressive leap.
Listen to her newest “Myopia” on Blue Note Records.
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