Girls In Airports
Fables
Label: Edition Records
Genre: Jazz / Avant Garde
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Girls in Airports’ story is as peculiar as their name and follows the skewed logic of the airport. Formed by a group of friends and fellow students from Copenhagen, initially gigs were local and on the small side – parties, small clubs. One early concert was in a record shop in the hip Nørrebro district where the band is based. The shop was tiny and soon packed out. It happened that two promoters were in town, a Chinese agent and one from Brazil. Both had heard about this new band and come down to check them out – unfortunately they couldn’t get in but must have been impressed by what they saw and heard through the window as the band were offered tours in China and Brazil. Without any management or a record deal Girls in Airports had become an international touring sensation. South Korea, New York, Germany, Portugal, London and Belfast soon followed.
Fables is founded on stories like this – stories inspired by locality – the collective experience of living in Copenhagen, the musicians’ lives, stories of touring, hours in the band bus. Another story concerns the name – a random selection, apparently, but one that has caused consternation for taxi drivers meeting them at arrivals. Imagine holding that sign saying Girls in Airports…
Fables is at least partly influenced by the great bass player Charlie Mingus – Mingus was an early working title. His composition Fables of Faubus was playing in the background as the album was made – perhaps not directly influencing the music but working insidiously on the sub-conscious creative process. The way that Mingus rehearsed with the famous Jazz Workshop and the way he played with a band rather than the usual loose collection of musicians common at the time resonates with the collective ethos of Girls in Airports and links their musical influences to the cultural and intellectual experience of tolerant, free thinking Copenhagen.