Only birds know how to call the sun and they do it every morning

music from the forthcoming album performed live with Scenatet

" ... a series of fragile and rather touching songs balancing on the edge of another world. David and Scenatet's Mathias Seibæk, Mikkel Schou and Vicky Wright play with great virtuosity on a unique mix of various MIDI instruments and electric guitar. There are all sorts of different things going on: Thin, trembling retro b-movie synth sounds, an EWI (electronic wind instrument) that can produce any electronic sound with added humanity, a good deal of rainforest new-age aesthetics, a synthetic bird chirping controlled by phone, a MIDI guitar that sounds a bit like Andreas Vollenweider's harp. Among other things. Kaj Duncan David himself sings alternately through a talkbox and a vocoder - often both at once and often with heavy use of the synthesiser's pitch bender.

We are working with the boundaries between language and sound, song and speech, music and nature, meaning and nonsense, and it's equally ambiguous as it is to be human in a post-human age. And while the conceptual complexity reverberates in the echoes of new and old technologies, these songs are also just really catchy and delivered with energy and understated humour. Maybe there is hope for humanity, even in a world populated by AI."

translated from Danish, Rasmus Homboe's review of a live show at MINU Festival 2024

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Music by Kaj Duncan David
Lyrics by Maikon K and Kaj Duncan David

Performed by Kaj Duncan David and Scenatet
Kaj Duncan David - vocals, keys, electronics
Vicky Wright – EWI, electronics
Mikkel Schou – MIDI guitar, electric guitar
Matias Seibæk – MIDI percussion, synth

This work was commissioned by Scenatet and Frequenz Festival and premiered at SPOR (Aarhus) and Frequenz (Kiel) in May 2024.

Supported by Koda's Cultural Funds, Danish Arts Council

22.06.2025

Only birds know how to call the sun and they do it every morning

Release concert - performing with Scenatet

Berlin

20.06.2025

Only birds know how to call the sun and they do it every morning

LP release on Hyperdelia

Berlin and www

28.05.2024

Frequenz Festival, Kiel

24.05.2024

SPOR Festival, Aarhus

06.-10.05.2021

some songs (early try-out)

premiered by SCENATET

Frequenz Festival, Kiel