Saturday, July 31, 2010

Dicte

Dicte started to play at a very young age and first appeared in 1983 with original songs and tracks from Janis Joplin's repertoire. She played in the beginning with a band from Viborg, called Farandola, but in 1987 she moved to Aarhus, where she played in many different contexts, until 1989 when she formed the group Her Personal Pain. Shortly after the formation ran in and won the talent competition Vi har scenen - har I musikken.
This band released in 1990 a disk with six songs. They went in a tour across the country and therefore the group was well known in music circles, not so much the general public, despite
a successful concert at the Roskilde Festival in 1990. This band participated in a support disk for Amnesty International, and in 1992 finally appeared Her Personal Pains first independent album.

However, this group was disbanded in 1993, when Dicte went solo. Dicte first solo album was released in 1994, and was rewarded with a three annual grant from the State Arts Foundation. She has since released several albums with the original concept that makes Dicte to an energy of Danish music. She has not been afraid to try other genres such as jazz, classical and R & B, although rock is most evident in her music.

In addition, she has tried their hand at film and theater as an actor, right she has created music for theater pictured out. Gradually, Dicte assembled a band named The Sugarbones, where she plays guitar and sings along with, among other things her longstanding collaborator operational part that requests Gliemann on keyboards.

Dicte was nominated for Danish Music Awards 2007 as the Danish Singer of the Year.
The Sugarbones:
Kæv Gliemann - keyboards, guitars, programs and choir
Mika Vandborg - guitars and choir
Lennart Ginman - bass
Thomas Duus - drums and choir

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Scandinavian Airlines

SAS was founded on 1 August 1946 when Det Danske Luftfartselskab A/S, AB Aerotransport and Det Norske Luftfartselskap AS (the flag carriers of Denmark, Sweden and Norway) formed a partnership to handle intercontinental traffic to Scandinavia. Operations started on 17 September 1946. The companies then started coordination of European operations in 1948 and finally merged to form the current SAS Consortium in 1951. When established the airline was divided between SAS Danmark (28.6%), SAS Norge (28.6%) and SAS Sweden (42.8%), all owned 50% by private investors and 50% by their respective governments. SAS gradually acquired control of the domestic markets in all three countries by acquiring full or partial control of several local airlines. In May 1997 SAS formed the global Star Alliance network with Air Canada, Lufthansa, Thai Airways International and United Airlines.
Scandinavian Airlines System Aktiebolag, trading as SAS Group and SAS AB, is a holding company based in Solna, Sweden. It is the parent company of the airlines Scandinavian Airlines, Blue1 and Widerøe, and the aviation services companies SAS Business Opportunities, SAS Cargo Group, SAS Ground Services and SAS Technical Services. It holds minority ownership of Air Greenland, Estonian Air, Skyways Express and Spanair. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange, the Stockholm Stock Exchange and the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
There exists a SAS Museum at Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, where the exhibits represent an important part of Scandinavian civil aviation history. The museum collections cover Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) as well as its parent companies: AB Aerotransport (ABA), Det Danske Luftfartselskab (DDL) and Det Norske Luftfartselskap (DNL). SAS is an important North European company, some of their flights may be very expensive. For instance the costs bellow: 
- a fly, 2ways, from Copenhagen to New York costs 4000 DKK (533 Euro)
- a fly, one way, from Copenhagen to Aalborg costs 295 DKK (40 Euro)
- a fly, 2 ways, from Copenahgen to Bangkok costs 6345 DKK (846 Euro)

Monday, July 26, 2010

Aarhus Airport

Aarhus Airport (AAR) is a civilian airport located in Tirstrup, Denmark, which is in Northeast of Aarhus. The website of this airport is www.aar.dk Even this airport is not very big, it offers a lot of facilities and is very well maintained. There is also a summer garden for the smokers or for the people who really like nature.
There are taxis traveling to the city available from outside the terminal building. The cost of a taxi from Aarhus to the airport is about 500 DKK (around 67 Euro). There are 45 Km from Aarhus center to the airport. The cost of a bus travel is 150 DKK per person (around 20 Euro).
An airport bus service takes passengers from the airport to Aarhus and back. It is available 24 hours a day. Also, bus route 212 between Ebeltoft and Randers stops at the airport.
The operating airlines on this airport are:
- British Airways operated by Sun Air of Scandinavia for Gothenburg-Landvetter, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Bromma,
- Bulgarian Air Charter for Burgas [seasonal] and Varna [seasonal]
- Cimber Sterling for Copenhagen
- Ryanair for Alicante [seasonal], Girona [seasonal], London-Stansted, Málaga and Oslo-Rygge
- Scandinavian Airlines (SAS)for Copenhagen
People are very kind and warm on this airport. The prices for services inside are affordable in respect with the prices in Denmark which are considered to be really high. More about Aarhus here .

Monday, July 12, 2010

CV Jørgensen

Carsten Valentin (CV) Jørgensen (born 9th of May 1950, in Lyngby) is a Danish singer and songwriter. Between The name Valentine is not lawfully recognized in Denmark.
C.V. Jørgensen has a creative style with numerous metaphors who lifted him level from pop singer to poet who enjoys recognition among writers and poets. The keynote of his texts are a melancholy fervor that often borders on direct alarmism, biting social satire or short fables about human destinies.

C.V. Jørgensen got the two album releases in relative obscurity his breakthrough with the folk rock LP: Storbyens små oaser (1977), where his satirical texts are about Danish allotment idyll and the academic intelligentsia.

The style was continued throughout the 1980s, when Jorgensen's texts were clear opposition to the yuppie and bourgeois political domination. In 1980 he recorded the album Tidens Tern together with the US-Danish guitarist Billy Cross' Delta Cross Band. Although the album's song Costa del Sol that is a satire of rich Danish retired flight to tax havens at the Spanish coast. Cross and Jorgensen, shortly after they finished it, break up their collaboration.

In January 2006, Tidens Tern was selected to be part of the Culture Ministry's cultural canon in category of popular music.

In the 1990s C.V. Jørgensen shifted to a radical style of the album Sjælland (1994), which mixed pop sound with floating, free jazz-inspired brass. The musical focus was moved from a standard rock format to a more free style with an emphasis on atmosphere. Texts shifted from the wordy, narrative style to tight feeling images. A style that he continued eight years later in his album Fraklip fra det fjerne(2002).

C.V. Jørgensen has in his career worked with a number of Danish rock music profiles, including Ivan Horn, Tim Christensen, Aske Jacoby, Sanne Salomonsen, Gert Smedegaard, Niels Henriksen. In late summer 2009 turned CV Jørgensen for the first time in seven years back to the stage, with three concerts in Århus Festival.

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Hej Matematik

Hej Matematik is a Danish pop band, consisting of the Aqua-member Søren Rasted and his nephew Nicolaj Rasted. They did well on the Danish charts and their debut album was being marketed as "an intelligent pop record" which is most likely a reference to the songs' equivocal lyrics and atmosphere commenting on urban lifestyle. They won Danish Hit of the Year with the single Walkmand at Zulu Awards 2009 - an annual award-ceremony held by Denmark's largest commercial television station TV 2.
In November 2nd, 2009, Hej Matematik released Party I Provinsen, the lead single of their forthcoming second album. The album has been released in Denmark on January 25th, 2010, under the title "Alt Går Op I 6".
Søren Rasted together with Lene Nystrøm, René Dif and Claus Norréen started the Danish success band Aqua.

Hej Matematik had in the past a dispute with well known band R.E.M. These pretended the video Hej Matematik - Walkmand is too close of R.E.M. - Supernatural Superserious. As a consequence they contacted YouTube and asked them to block the video of the Danish band.