Deer Bear

Artist Information

Biography

Complementarity is perhaps what best describes and defines DEER BEAR. The Ying and Yang parallel is obvious with the members being a seemingly odd couple: The female part is held by Anne Hjort, with a background rooted in the electro-popish. Her male counterpart is Lars Bjørn-Hansen who normally fronts the critically acclaimed death metal band Koldborn, but there’s no death metal in this musical setting, no insisting aggression, no screaming.

Our sound and songwriting, with its introspective and winding down of time character, stand in an appealing
contrast to modernity, and one may sense a search for a more traditional insight and organic output.
The style might be labeled as melancholic pop-folk, and while the sound is warm and comforting, the subject
matter is far from it. While listening to the acoustic western guitar, the smooth balanced keys and strings,
one starts to notice the words of the effortless male and female voices, and the soundscape, reminiscent of an
idyllic gentle green lush forest, turns into one of bleak winter-wrapped woods.
Our music, and the words that live in its wake, are nothing but a shelter from the world. Music really can’t do
anything else than to postpone suffering: music is the armor of the heart. This is the reason why we make
music: to escape and to alleviate.
The songs, we’ve written, are about life and about unwillingly taking part in it from time to time.
The keys, strings, drums, bow strokes and voices come from our hearts and from the winds, trees and oceans
on earth as all these things really are one and the same.
We open a door to sadness. Sadness is a magnifying glass when used with courage. Open yourself up to it;
invite sadness in when it waits on your doorstep, always eager and ready. On the doorstep of your mental
house, in which you spend all your life, locked away from everything else; in your House behind the eyes.
Our notes and lyrics will make you open the door, and your dogs in the cellar will cease their barking and
your demons will hold their breath, just for a little while.
This record will enable you to gather strength for the days and nights to come, because days and nights roll
in endlessly, like waves beating your battered boat.
Our lyrics are about many things, but mostly we try to convey melancholic truths. One such truth is that you
should treat yourself and others with love and gentleness, because by merely existing, we are already
suffering enough.
Music is a way to forget and is the most merciful thing that we can offer.

The debut album "House Behind the Eyes" was released in Denmark April 30th through Playground Music Denmark and 2012 will be spent touring both Denmark and Europe.

Instrumentation

Lars BjØrn-Hansen - Guitar, Song
Anne Hjort - keys, Song

Discography

EP (S/T) - self released, summer 2010.
EP (The Other side) - Screaming Records, fall 2011
CD (House Behind the Eyes) DB Records/Playground Music, spring 2012

Links

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Audio

• Sang 1
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• Sang 2
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• Sang 3
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Lyrics

• A Troubled Heart
• Like Every Sun
• Letters

Video

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Press

• GAFFA - EP 5 star review [+ Show ]
  

  Langt inde i den store skov sidder der to og spiller guitar Med en baggrund i henholdsvis metal o...Langt inde i den store skov sidder der to og spiller guitar
  
  Med en baggrund i henholdsvis metal og electro-pop er det klart, at man sammen laver akustisk folkpop. Både Anne og Lars synger virkelig godt, og backet op af guitarer, mandolin, strygere og tamburin er der meget americana over lyden, men egentlig ikke over sangskrivningen. Anne og Lars er gode til at gøre plads både til hinanden og lytteren, og det giver et smukt og melankolsk rum. Der er ikke noget lir, men vokalerne hiver den helt hjem. Og der er noget meget hjemligt over det her. Et smukt cover, med meget sympatiske og rustikke bandbilleder, viser en duo med et klart greb om deres stil, både i billeder og lyd. Demoen er produceret i samme ånd, med luft og elegance og rigtig fine detaljer i opbygningerne. Det virker meget naturligt for dem begge. En helt igennem rar lyd, med hjertevarme og fine detaljer. Men det er også meget taknemmeligt at arbejde med, med så klare forbilleder, der har gjort pionerarbejdet. Jeg kan dog sagtens tilgive fraværet af originalitet, når sangene er så gode, og det er så veludført.

Setlist

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