Agnes Obel composed three songs that were used in the acclaimed German television series DARK, one in each season. Her songs "Familiar", "It's Happening Again", and "Broken Sleep" were all featured on episodes. Her ethereal haunting compositions fit that series very well.
the girls are perfectly working together like a swiss pocket watch. i love her music, haunting elegance. too bad that the concert live at philharmonie de paris was deleted from youtube. it was one of the best live performances i've seen on youtube. check out for probably the best voice of our time, eivør. she is the best artist i know, her live qualities are otherworldly: falling free boxes true love tides truth í tokuni
I came upon this same video awhile back. Never heard of her and LOVED it!. You analyzing it makes me want to search more from her. Interesting how you mentioned them laying the repetitive tracks as I noticed that as well. You mentioned the large lights…. They look like lights, but I thought because of their size they had more to do with affecting sound? You mentioned New Age music and Windham music which brought back memories so I searched the artists you mentioned and one reminded me of Preston Reed who I had seen in 1995. Not sure if you have ever heard of him ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jDfdP5WDyn4.html
I never heard of that guy, but I went and looked, 1995 would have made him a contemporary of Michael Hedges, and he does some of the same things hedges did, with tapping the body for percussive sounds. Agnes I'd heard here and there over the years, and she definitely has construction on top of repetition on every song I've heard of her, some of it was too goofy for me. But man, I'm gonna watch that whole interview at some point.
The G sound in Agnes sounds like a W, so the Ag sound is more like if you hit your finger and says aw, (Aw-ness). We danes have a lot of soft G's and D's which always confuses foreigners, so don't feel bad about it :) Also, it isn't a piano, but a Celesta (main difference being that on a piano the hammers hits strings, while a Celesta hits small metal plates, giving that unique bell like sound, which is why it is sometimes called a Bell-piano)
