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01. Mk Velsorf & Aase Nielsen - Prelude
02. Mk Velsorf & Aase Nielsen - House In The Hills
03. Mk Velsorf & Aase Nielsen - Santa Monica
04. Mk Velsorf & Aase Nielsen - Vine
05. Mk Velsorf & Aase Nielsen - Opening Night
ARTIST
TITLE
Opening Night
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
AWE 002CD AWE 002CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/25/2025

Opening Night is a collection of instrumental music composed for the opening gala of the New Theater Hollywood by Danish composers MK Velsorf and Aase Nielsen. A cycle of minimal pieces for e-guitar, e-piano and backing tracks, the music was performed and recorded live from the stage balcony during the dress rehearsal, arrival of the guests and between speeches throughout the night. The music is patient, minimal and groovy -- consisting of sparse guitar vamps, drum and synth loops, it establishes a mood, or a tone: one of sun-soaked dreams, ecological dread and never-ending anticipation. Opening Night evokes the environmental furniture music of Erik Satie, as well as the melancholic instrumentals of Arthur Russell, the procedural TV score of Mike Post, and the sleazy atmospheres of certain Michael Mann films. Designed to weave in and out of the listener's consciousness, Opening Night is light in feel yet with a deep pull, breezily conjuring feelings of banality, pleasurable dissociation, and eerie repetition. The listener is invited to get in the car and stay for a while. The New Theater Hollywood is a performance space run by artists Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff, housed in the historic 49-seat 2nd Stage Theater in Hollywood's largely defunct Theater Row, conceived as a space to develop and stage original theatrical productions in the crosswinds of performance, literature, contemporary art, film and television.