Concert Review: Astrid Sonne, September 27, St. Anne's Lower Hall

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Concert Review: Astrid Sonne, September 27, St. Anne’s Lower Hall

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28 Sep 2024

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Paul

I’m always down for checking out a venue I’ve never been to before, so when I saw that Astrid Sonne would be playing a show at St. Anne’s Lower Hall, I took the chance to see the Denmark-born (now UK-based) musician in action.

As I walked down the stairs to enter the venue, opener Stefana Fratila was just starting her set, but that wasn’t the first thing I noticed. No, the first thing I noticed was the fact that a large portion of the crowd was sitting on the floor. OK, I guess it’s going to be that kind of show. That’s cool, but I’m getting old and if I’m going to sit, I wouldn’t mind a chair. It doesn’t even need to be a particularly comfortable one. I’ll take what I can get. Thus ends my old guy rant.

I’ve seen Sonne in concert twice before, once at Denmark’s Roskilde Festival and once at SXSW. At each of those shows, she drew me in with her atmospheric blend of classical and electronic sounds, but with each show, it’s been a fairly different performance. So I was curious to see what she’d bring on this occasion. As it turns out, this set may have been the most different of the three shows I’ve seen from her.

The new songs may technically be her most accessible to date, with more traditional song structures and arrangements. Interestingly though, despite being more conventionally accessible, I also found these pieces a little harder to get into than what I had heard from her in the past.

This is not to day they were bad by any means – Sonne and her accompanist this evening put on a solid performance and having given her latest album Great Doubt a bit more of a proper listen after the fact, I can definitely appreciate what she’s doing. So while the new stuff may not have grabbed my attention in quite the same way some of her earlier work has, the fact that Astrid Sonne is still finding new ways in which to express herself musically is impressive. I look forward to seeing what she does next.

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