Simon Lynge
Los Angeles, California, United States | INDIE
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Love Comes Back To You immediately hits the spot as a warm-sounding, beautifully-written song with a simple, memorable melody. Influences like Paul Simon aren't hard to spot on this track and everything we've heard from Simon Lynge's forthcoming debut album 'The Future' is top-drawer quality. - Record of the Day
Love Comes Back To You immediately hits the spot as a warm-sounding, beautifully-written song with a simple, memorable melody. Influences like Paul Simon aren't hard to spot on this track and everything we've heard from Simon Lynge's forthcoming debut album 'The Future' is top-drawer quality. - Record of the Day
Lynge has an exceptionally beautiful voice, remarkably fluid, musical, with a quality something like Rufus Wainwright. As well a natural on guitar and joined by seasoned LA rock veterans, his first effort isn't over the top, but maintains song craft, paired down acoustic ensemble, many magical elements...the guy is one hunky Dane/Inuit. - HipFish
Lynge has an exceptionally beautiful voice, remarkably fluid, musical, with a quality something like Rufus Wainwright. As well a natural on guitar and joined by seasoned LA rock veterans, his first effort isn't over the top, but maintains song craft, paired down acoustic ensemble, many magical elements...the guy is one hunky Dane/Inuit. - HipFish
Counting Elliott Smith and Nick Drake among his influences, Lynge’s music is a brand of quite faultless melodic rich pop. - Music Week
Counting Elliott Smith and Nick Drake among his influences, Lynge’s music is a brand of quite faultless melodic rich pop. - Music Week
“Simon is a fascinating man and an amazing talent all the way from Greenland. He’s an Inuit Scandinavian and he plays beautiful, beautiful music. You’ll hear a lot more of him in the future – I am sure.” Sally Taylor - BBC
“Simon is a fascinating man and an amazing talent all the way from Greenland. He’s an Inuit Scandinavian and he plays beautiful, beautiful music. You’ll hear a lot more of him in the future – I am sure.” Sally Taylor - BBC
From the first high-tidal harmonic swells of “London Town,” Simon Lynge’s aptly titled record pulls you into lush, comforting waves of sound. Brian Wilson would adore Beautiful Way, especially the jubilant title track, a sonic swirling celebration of love. Mixing palpable urgency (“If You Go”) with pretty indictments (“Television Talk”) and an abiding sort of joyful melancholy, Lynge creates the kind of wondrous music that makes you feel like a wide-eyed kid, led by bravely honest yet reassuringly optimistic lyrics. Singing “I am a song on a six-string / When life goes wrong / I am laughing,” his emotionally immediate voice and finger-picked guitar could easily thaw even the coldest of hearts. —GMG - Performing Songwriter
From the first high-tidal harmonic swells of “London Town,” Simon Lynge’s aptly titled record pulls you into lush, comforting waves of sound. Brian Wilson would adore Beautiful Way, especially the jubilant title track, a sonic swirling celebration of love. Mixing palpable urgency (“If You Go”) with pretty indictments (“Television Talk”) and an abiding sort of joyful melancholy, Lynge creates the kind of wondrous music that makes you feel like a wide-eyed kid, led by bravely honest yet reassuringly optimistic lyrics. Singing “I am a song on a six-string / When life goes wrong / I am laughing,” his emotionally immediate voice and finger-picked guitar could easily thaw even the coldest of hearts. —GMG - Performing Songwriter
The serene setting of Union Chapel suited the 24-year-old, who exuded a Zen-like calm as he sang strikingly pretty, melodic songs with a debt to Paul Simon and James Taylor. Behind him, the multi-instrumentalist Richard Lobb provided inspired backing by taping and looping everything from mandolin, keyboards and drums to knee slaps, finger clicks and taps on the packing crate on which he was perched. Lynge’s pure, warm voice was at its best on the beautiful, Beatlesy Love Comes Back to You and his forthcoming first UK single, Infinitely You. Both have already been picked up for films and adverts. With luck, Lynge could be this year’s José González.
- The London Times
The serene setting of Union Chapel suited the 24-year-old, who exuded a Zen-like calm as he sang strikingly pretty, melodic songs with a debt to Paul Simon and James Taylor. Behind him, the multi-instrumentalist Richard Lobb provided inspired backing by taping and looping everything from mandolin, keyboards and drums to knee slaps, finger clicks and taps on the packing crate on which he was perched. Lynge’s pure, warm voice was at its best on the beautiful, Beatlesy Love Comes Back to You and his forthcoming first UK single, Infinitely You. Both have already been picked up for films and adverts. With luck, Lynge could be this year’s José González.
- The London Times
Discography
6 Sketches – “Live” EP (2004) – features 6 tracks performed live in Copenhagen, Nashville and Los Angeles (available on-line and at shows)
Beyond My Skin – EP (2007) – features 6 acoustic studio tracks – 2 acoustic versions of songs from the forthcoming (available on-line and at shows)
A Beautiful Way To Drown (2009) – Simon’s FIRST full-length studio album –
The Future (2010) – A Beautiful Way to Drown..re-named and re-sequenced for European release.
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SIMON LYNGE
Simon Lynge has been to the future, and he likes what he saw. “I saw the mountains and the rivers and the beauty of us all”.
With those lines, Simon sums up his outlook on life and a basis for his music. His debut album, The Future, (just named Album of the Week by MDR (radio and TV in Germany) introduces Simon as a fully-formed contender for major success. It was recorded at Bright Orange Studios in Los Angeles with co-producers Matt Forger (Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney) and Jon Mattox (The Young Dubliners).
The Future is a musical beauty worthy of the wide audience it is finding after entering the BBC UK charts at #22 one day after the June 7 release. It also hit #1 on the Amazon.com UK Rock charts. German Rolling Stone just did a two page feature on this new artist and The Koelner in Cologne said Simon’s music is “Full of fresh craftwork, positive energy and original ideas…..This is so beautiful it makes you want to listen to it very loudly and again and again. “
Simon, still very new to the international music scene has received recognition equal to a seasoned veteran. ABC-TV’s hit show Brothers and Sisters featured the title track to The Future on their second show of the 2010 Fall season. The London Times says, “Lynge’s pure, warm voice was at its best on the beautiful, Beatlesy ‘Love Comes Back to You’ and his forthcoming first UK single, ‘Infinitely You’. ….. With luck, Lynge could be this year’s José González.”
The forces that shaped Simon for this moment are elemental gifts - - a receptive mind and heart, a musical family, opportunity and bone-sure drive.
Simon’s music roots are Inuit-Scandinavian. Raised in the beautiful steppes of Greenland, Simon’s early years were spent outside of school, at play, often helping to tend his neighbor’s sheep. He was constantly exposed to music and storytelling by his multitalented father Karl, who played accordion with the “Greenlandic Bob Dylan” Rasmus Lyberth, and also worked with Eskimo folklore in the Tukak Theatre Group.
Simon later enrolled in the Holstebro Music Conservatory in Denmark, where he immersed himself in the study of drums, piano and opera. His musical hunger led him to the guitar and songwriting, and he quickly found himself co-writing and performing with exceptional talents in the Copenhagen songwriter scene. Invitations followed to perform at Kashmir Club in London, to write and perform on Nashville’s Music Row and in Los Angeles. To complete the circle, Simon recently returned to the Danish capitol to perform to 25,000 fans at the famed Tivoli Gardens.
He writes and performs mostly on guitar with a style that produces bell-like harmonies that splinter in gorgeous patterns around superb melodies. It’s there his spirit moves best. Never too clever or self conscious, Simon’s music wraps round you like a new hug from an old friend. When the word got out about Simon’s talents, it worked like a magnet attracting world-renowned talents like bass-player Lee Sklar (James Taylor, Jackson Browne), guitarist Shane Fontayne (Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon), drummer Jay Bellerose (Marc Cohen, Madeliene Peyroux), and bassist Freebo (Bonnie Raitt, John Mayall, CSN).
The first sign of success came in March 2006, when a demo and basically incomplete version of the track “A Beautiful Way to Drown” found its way to the national radio station in Greenland. It became an instant hit, displacing Coldplay from the number two position on the charts. Around that time, Simon signed up with the Los Angeles based management team of Jolene Pellant and Mike Gormley in their company, Yes Dear Entertainment.
2009 brought recognition and commercial opportunity to meet Simon's rising talent, and as a hard-working artist he started laying the foundation to a significant step forward in his career. YDE management negotiated a deal with Lo-Max Records out of the UK to release The Future throughout Europe, Australasia and Japan. Released in the UK in June of 2010, Simon started the pre-release campaign in 2009 in Aberdeen, Scotland, opening for the buzz-boy of the year, Jon Allen. Some twenty-one dates later, Simon found himself with rave reviews not only in the London Times but music industry buzz publications such as Record of the Day.
In rather prestigious circles the brilliance of Simon’s work on his debut album The Future is already being compared to the likes of Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Elliot Smith, Nick Drake and other uncommonly gifted artists.
Simon Lynge discography:
6 Sketches – “Live” EP (2004) – features 6 tracks performed live in Copenhagen, Nashville and Los Angeles (available on-line and at shows)
Beyond My Skin – EP (2007) – features 6 acoustic studio tracks – 2 acoustic versions of songs from the forthcoming (available on-line and at shows)
A Beautiful Way To Drown (2009) – Simon’s FIRST full-length studio album –
The Future (2010) – A Beautiful Way to Drown..re-n
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