Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: The Show On The Road with Z. Lupetin
Episode: Agnes Obel
Description: This week, a conversation with renowned Danish pianist, experimental composer, and atmospheric-folk songstress Agnes Obel.
Recorded high above Hollywood in the famed Capitol records building (Obel was recently signed to Blue Note Records), host Z. Lupetin takes an intimate tour of her newest work “Myopia”, which shows Obel at her most personal and aurally fearless.
Born in Copenhagen and based in Berlin, Obel’s albums warrant repeat listening, as it’s often hard to know exactly what instruments are playing at any given time. At times the darting, looping piano and quicksilver string work seem like a chamber orchestra, or maybe th...