When listening to Koops music it's somehow easy to believe that it's played by a small orchestra, but in fact the music is based on samples. Thousands of small clips from records puzzled together into new songs. All the drums, strings, horn sections and choires are actually sampled! This is a very time consuming way to make music (it's one of the reasons it takes such long time to make a koop album), but it's the only way to create the surreal Koop sound. One thing though, that for sure aren't sampled, is the vocals. Many singers has blessed the Koop albums with their talent, and on Koop Islands the singers are : Yukimi Nagano, Ane Brun, Hilde Louise Asbjornsen (this was the woman singing at the A38 concert), Rob Gallagher and Mikael Sundin. Some fine musicians has also participated on the album playing solos, percussion and bass. Those are : Mattias Ståhl, Magnus Lindgren, Karl Frid, Nils Berg, Martin Höper, Ola Bothzén, Dan Berglund and Mats Lindfors. When playing live Koop transforms into a 7-9 piece swing orchestra including one or two singers, and the main mission is to make people move their feet. Koop themselves play piano/accordion (Oscar), sampler (Magnus), and wear dresses.
Koop gave a great concert at A38 playing the music I really like listening to, also at home. The jazzy sound feels like coming home in a way and the voice of Hilde Louise is sweet and breakable and strong all at the same time. The musicians are all fabulous and the whole thing sounds like it has been alive since the beginning of time. Max Groundstroem was playing the vibraphone and gave a solo that even made the audience sweat. Karl Frid played the trombone brilliantly.
Thanks Koop for a wonderful concert and thanks Wouter for taking me!
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