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Fresh out of the oven:Kira to release Run Where No One Goes
By editor: Jermy Leeuwis on May 03, 2010.
There’s no time like the present for Danish artist Kira to debut in the US. Kira is an artist who has played more than 400 shows to great critical acclaim in Denmark as well as abroad which earned her quotes such as “An overwhelming experience in the lands of torn up blues and salty rock'n'roll, for all open wounds and naked vulnerability, that you wish to protect the band and yourself from all thinkable wrongs. You also wish to proclaim, that it must be insanity to place a band that would make The White Stripes pale and The Kills see a shrink on such an insignificant stage. " Erik Jensen, Politikens review of a concert at Midtfyns festival, summer 2003. ......”
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Artist: Kira
Title: Run Where No One Goes
Release date: 06/11/10
Record label: SIN/SonyMusic Independent Network
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She was discovered by the legendary producer and musician Tricky during a performance at Tony Wilson’s infamous "In the City" in Manchester who signed her to his UK based label Brown Punk and stared in his directorial debut, a mocumentary of the making of the label with the track "Skating Your Pool” and joined his world tour in the summer of 2008.
Another stand out tune, “Save Me” was written years ago, during a rough patch in Kira’s life. “The recording was done in a kitchen in Copenhagen and the intensity of it made me never want to re-record it in a proper studio. It was a moment.” Claims Kira.
The bonus track on this 7 song EP, is "Losing You" Kira's signature tune and her biggest Radio hit in Denmark. It was taken off the album "This is not an Exit" which has sold Gold and is heading for platinum in Denmark. While this song wows the Danish expats, it's her voodoo-like rendition of "Make a Man" that sticks in the mind. “It's on a par with Tina Turner's Acid Queen in Tommy. The amazing thing about Kira is that, unlike so many current acts, she lives up to these comparisons. “ The Independent boasts.
Kira is currently working on a follow up album which will be produced by John Parish. Sigur Ros's studio in Iceland. (PJ Harvey, Tracy Chapman, Eels etc.). Recording will start at the end of June.
“Run Where No One Goes” will be the first release on US soil and Kira plans to visit and tour the states as much as possible during the next 9 months to promote the release with her band the Ghost Riders. Kira will be playing selected dates in the US this July.
Kira biography
Kira left her home in Copenhagen at the age of 17 to pursue her dream of playing in a rock’n’roll band. She found at first a man, then a band and the source of much joy, but mostly trouble, in the foreign lands of which she traveled like a modern day gypsy. Her journey led her through many parts of the world, but for many years her base was in the cities of London and L.A.
Through her years she was faced with many hardships; one of them being the break-up of her first band, where her former partner primarily provided the songs. It was at this moment when she seriously dived in to the therapeutic process of writing on her own. Drawing from her experiences of relationships and her life on the road, she created a musical world, of deeply personal songs, with a rough edge and moody tales, in a style which she her self labeled “soul punk”, indeed a term that is endearing to her style, since none of the obvious categories fit.
press quotes
* * * (4/6) “Changing arrangements, excellent band work and more facets to Kira Skov’s singing makes for a playful cool and clear style.” MetroXpress (nationwide newspaper)
* * * (4/6) a rock-symphonic production with view to the wide open spaces.” Jyllands Posten (nationwide newspaper)
* * * * (4/6) “Competent Kira. Kira Skov possesses both charisma and strong vocal chords as well as an extraordinary tight playing band.” Ekstra Bladet (nationwide newspaper)
* * * * (4/6) “a devil-may-care attitude as seldom seen on the Danish rock scene.” Soundvenue (music magazine)
* * * * (4/6) “Changing arrangements, excellent band work and more facets to Kira Skov’s singing makes for a playful cool and clear style.” - MetroXpress (nationwide newspaper)
“Live the music proved to be of a different intense and sensual nature. Carried out by a singer who is remarkably at one with her material. With enormous shifts between the possessed, the sincere and the physically explosive, Kira Skov is, with her great vocal repertoire, a natural talent of the rarest kind. It is very hard not to be impressed with the young Danish gypsy. Kira Skov, with her limber body and vocal-cords will reach great heights, if she can keep the intensity". Politikens review of the concert at Rust, Copenhagen.
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