The sextet Jacob Faurholt & Sweetie Pie Wilbur from Ã…rhus, Denmark plays a noisy, rattling folk-pop that uses a variety of instruments and sound-experiments.
On the debut-album Queen of hope from 2005 you'll hear an under-acted, spontaneous and intimate pop with little mistakes and disharmonies. In contrast the band presents a grandiose and comprehensive set at live-performances.
Faurholts both masculine and frail vocal and songs work really well with the accompanying melodies from Trine Omø, Asger Christensen, Kasper Schultz, Iris Jakobsen and Mads Wæhrens, who add the quirky, sensitive, audacious and noisy arrangements with vocals, violins, viola, percussion, bass, a little plastic organ, melodica, Irish bouzouki, glockenspiel etc.
There is no defined set of roles in the band, which encourages the creative process with room to explore new boundaries. The music is a changeable playfulness from the quiet, frail and intimate to an interweaving of melodies twirling toward the unruly, rattling and dramatic grandiosity. The band explores the use of noise by using distorted violins and violas or megaphone choir.
Besides important showcases i.e. SPOT11 & Popkomm 2005 the band has played a long line of concerts at several of Denmarks bigger venues and supported CocoRosie, Grizzly Bear and Efterklang. Furthermore they were 1 on the Danish alternative chart "Det Elektriske Barometer" with the song Alone with You from Queen of Hope.
Jacob Faurholt & Sweetie Pie Wilbur parted their ways in 2006, and on November 12th 2007 Jacob's album Hurrah Hurrah was released on Quartermain Records. Please visit him here: Jacob Faurholt
You can buy the Queen of Hope-album here: Indie Export
