Tone
With her abstract break beats, fragile voice and mesmerizing lyrics, female artist Tone has found an impressive outlet for her inner musical strengths, creating experimental ambient electronica sounds ranging from uplifting moods to bleak shades of melancholy.
Listen
I Am Long
Stringphant
Releases
UR001: Tone – Small Arm of Sea
Tone debut to be released Jan 21, 2008.
CD+DVD – LP+DVD – MP3
Biography
Musically, Tone – who carries the civil name Sofie Nielsen – creates a remarkable audiovisual realm in which her light and spell-binding voice adds to a bedrock of crunchy break beats, abstract compositional structures and melodic sounds and samples. Not being a typical songwriter in terms of clinging to the usage of the traditional structure of verses and choruses, Tone relies on improvisation and creative exploration in the creation of her unpredictable musical landscapes – while adding daunting, yet compelling lyrics – and thereby drawing listeners into her musical and atmospheric universe of thoughts, sounds and a myriad of emotional expressions.
In her native country of Denmark, the last months have been hectic. During the summer, Tone took first prize in the prestigious live performance competition Rock Nord ’06 (Rock North ’06, won previously by ao. Oh No Ono) at Denmark’s 4th largest outdoor festival, Nibe Festival, competing with other internationally famed Danish breakthrough artists including The Alpine and The Blue Van. Secondly, her track ’I Am Long’ peaked at #4 on Danish national radio chart ’Barometeret’ (The Barometer), making her the highest positioned non-signed artist in the history of the chart. Lately, she also featured on leading Danish music magazine Sound Venues monthly cd-sampler, paving the way for further public awareness of this brilliant new artist, as well as leading to interviews on national radio P2 and P3 – and a series of live concerts throughout the country and at both the Norberg and Forma Nova festivals in Sweden and Denmark respectively.
Tone’s live performance is a spectacular experience. Accompanied by VJ Kristian Ravn Ellestad, the two blend together in an audiovisual symbiosis accentuating the moods of Tone’s emotionally charged music. Tone and Kristian have cooperated in making small individual movie loops to each of her tracks, adding coherency and an abstract kind of storytelling to the performance.
