Denni Ian

DENNI IAN – Soulful Sunday With Danish Crooner And His New Affecting Musing ‘HERE, IN ABSENCE’

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Reveries for the laziest day of the week

13 August 2023


Artwork by Denni Ian

Artist: DENNI IAN
Who: Danish post-folk troubadour
Danish poet and singer-songwriter.

New single: HERE, IN ABSENCE
The 4th shared piece from his 2nd album, titled ‘Salt King’, out
on 15 September, after having been heavily delayed due to Ian‘s
being bedridden for almost nine months after a severe traffic
accident last year.

TUTV: His music has been compared to the brutal beauty of early Nick Cave,
the delicate intimacy of the late Elliott Smith, and the rich melancholy of Matt
Berninger of The National. But I also hear intonated echoes of Tindersticks‘s
heartrending crooner Stuart A. Staples.

Hauntingly melancholic and gloomily romantic. The song features magnific
male/female duet vocals creating, along with weeping violins and intimate
acoustic guitar play, a dark-coloured atmosphere. This is moody music for
the midnight hours. Highly affecting.

Video made by Ian.

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Danish Singer-Songwriter DENNI IAN Moves With His New Ballad ‘(Salt King) 0>1’

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New striking strokes

8 March 2023

Artist: DENNI IAN
Who: Danish poet and songwriter. His music has been compared to
the brutal beauty of early Nick Cave, the delicate intimacy of the late
Elliott Smith, and the rich melancholy of Matt Berninger of The National.

New single: (Salt King) 0>1

”It’s an expressionistic statement, one heavy with heartbreak
and loss, yet it feels intimate in its delirium.”.

TUTV: Dim the lights, light a candle, close your eyes, and let the music and
Ian‘s heavyhearted spoken-word reflections pour in. Imagine a smoky bar with
some lost souls staring into emptiness with no happy future to dream about and
a crooner emphasizing their sad state of mind with his bluesy piano play and this downcast midnight-hour ballad.

Listen here.

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Danish Songwriter DENNI IAN Brings Great Crooners To Mind With His Gripping Single ‘TWO FIGURES’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

25 April 2022

Artist: DENNI IAN

Who: Danish multidisciplinary artist Denni Ian explores
the murky waters of uncertainty. His confessions come
together in an artful composition of considered expressionism
and traditional songwriting.

New single: TWO FIGURES


(Cover art single)

IAN: “I wrote the lyrics for “Two Figures” in the summer 2020 while being hospitalised at
a local psych ward. Close to an all-time low, I had lost my mind, felt existentially exhausted, and alone. The day I was released, I started working on the expressionistic animations you see in the “Two Figures” music video. A year later, I headed into the studio to record the song, which was a much-needed relief. If it isn’t obvious what it’s about, listen to it again.”

Turn Up The Volume: Two Figures is a gloomy pearl of a song that shadowplays
in Ian‘s troubled mind. It’s a somber ballad that affects, touches and moves. The color is pitch black, the sound is both dreary and mesmerizing. And when that wondrous female voice enters, the gripping theme song of blockbuster movie The Gladiator started playing on my inner stereo. Don’t ask me why, it just happened.

Ian‘s shady vox has that twilight timbre of illustrious crooners such as Nick Cave
and The National‘s frontman Matt Berginer, but resembles the intimate voice of
Tindersticks frontman Stuart A. Staples even more. Great company. That says it all.

Dim the lights and listen/watch…

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