Danish musician Agnes Obel spoke to Art Beat about her “piano music” before a recent concert at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. Video shot by Victoria Fleischer and Rachel Wellford Danish musician ...

Danish musician and songwriter Agnes Obel has announced her fourth LP, Myopia, due out February 21 via Blue Note. She’s shared the haunting, delicate first single “Island of Doom,” and about it, she ...

Avant garde folk artist Agnes Obel brings spirited vocals and a wonderful piano for her second appearance in San Francisco, performing as a classical trio at The Independent on March 13. Her sophomore ...

The latest Nordic beauty to make a gentle stir in the music world. Agnes Obel is a Danish-born, Berlin-based 29-year-old whose album Philharmonics has invaded the charts in northern Europe. Imagine if ...

Agnes Obel’s Philharmonics was a work of such carefully thought-out beauty that when news of the impending release of its follow-up, Aventine, emerged a couple of months ago, we were overjoyed and ...

Once artists find a formula for success, they often stick to it: if it isn’t broken, and all that. After two hugely successful albums – Philharmonics (2010) and Aventine (2013) – you might expect ...

SHE may be based all the way on the other side of Europe, but Danish singer-songwriter Agnes Obel continues to find a particular comfort in playing in front of Irish audiences. Irish audiences were ...

Her family house was full of creativity, recalls the exceptionally softly spoken Danish songwriter Agnes Obel. Her father’s passion was to collect odd and arcane musical instruments; her musician ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Agnes Obel is the musical equivalent of one of those riveting Danish TV dramas: a one-woman sound wave of noirish ...

She is the architect of eerie, otherworldy music that straddles neo-classical, jazz and chamber pop. For her last album, she had a replica of a 1920s synthesiser called a Trautonium made. She has been ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Agnes Obel claims the films of Alfred Hitchcock as an inspiration, and there is indeed a Hitchcockian feel to ...