Be Svendsen: A storyteller from the desert to the forest
Saturday evening, 25 July. After Pandhora's live set on the Main Stage, at 20:45 the stage opens into an entirely different universe. The name carrying Soundscape Chapter VI's Saturday night to its peak: Be Svendsen.
The Danish producer is one of electronic music's hardest figures to define. The description that has followed his sound for years is "Tarantino Techno"; a universe both playful and cinematic, where syncopated rhythms, textures woven from world music, unusual sampling and live instruments are bound together by hypnotic repetition. His sets unfold less like a DJ performance and more like a film drifting between the western and the East.
His solo project, launched in 2011, spread across the international scene with releases on labels like Crosstown Rebels and All Day I Dream. The real breakthrough came at festivals: performances at Portugal's BOOM, Germany's Fusion, Burning Man and AfrikaBurn made him one of the most sought-after names in global festival culture. His 2019 debut album "Between a Smile and a Tear" reaches beyond the dancefloor into the nostalgic roots of his childhood, swaying, as its title suggests, between joy and melancholy.
Istanbul listeners know him best through something else entirely: the "Tarlabaşı" remix, named after the heart of this city. His rework of the Oceanvs Orientalis track has been among the most-streamed works of both artists for years. Chapter VI's beautiful coincidence is that both sides of that record are at the festival on the same night: Be Svendsen on the Main Stage, Oceanvs Orientalis on the Nature Stage.
Lifepark's forest is a new setting for a storytelling style matured at desert festivals. On the night of 25 July, right after sunset, the Istanbul chapter of that story gets written.
