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‘Language, landscape and soundworld seem perfectly connected.’ Evening Standard on Nynke’s album Alter
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THE FRISIAN FADO SINGER MAKES HER LONDON DEBUT SPECIAL GUESTS
The Barbican’s critically-acclaimed Transcender weekend aims to boldly explore spiritual, sensual and psychadelic music from around the world, and the genre-bending Dutch singer Nynke fits the bill perfectly. Her inimitable style blends intense Mediterranean sounds – notably fado, the Portuguese melancholic song tradition – with the poetry of the historically rich Frisian language, spoken only in the northern part of the Netherlands. Nynke’s ground-breaking albums present a crosscultural smorgasbord inspired by her travels around the world. The first establishes the unprecedented ‘Frisian fado’ fusion; the second and third introduce Latin American and Mongolian influences respectively. This year Nynke presents her new album Alter, made in collaboration with acclaimed Spanish guitarist and producer Javier Limón. In his words, ‘The music of the words in Frisian is very strong, and in the songs you hear the sound of the landscape, the far sights, the huge sky and the green. Then there’s this exceptional voice; when Nynke starts to sing, something happens’.