AGNES OBEL
ANNOUNCES 2027 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
FIRST NORTH AMERICAN TOUR IN SIX YEARS
NEW ALBUM
OUT NOW VIA DECCA RECORDS
TICKETS AVAILABLE STARTING TODAY WITH ARTIST PRE-SALE; GENERAL ON-SALE BEGINS THIS FRIDAY AT 10 AM LOCAL
Credit: Alex Brüel Flagstad
“‘The Meaning of Flowers’ sets up the birth of either a song or a baby as a beautiful way to fight evils in this world.” – FLOOD MAGAZINE
Following the release of her long-awaited album The Meaning of Flowers, Danish-Born, Berlin-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Agnes Obel announces her 2027 North American tour, her first in over six years. The seven date run kicks off on May 18th at The Ford in Los Angeles, with performances in San Francisco, Toronto, Quebec, and Montreal before wrapping on May 28th at Brooklyn Paramount in New York.
The announcement follows Obel’s performances in Germany and the Netherlands this past August, and arrives ahead of a string of shows in Australia and New Zealand this September, including Melbourne's Hamer Hall and the Sydney Opera House. The Spring 2027 North American tour will be followed by a European tour that Fall, with stops at Paris’s Olympia, Copenhagen’s Operaen, and London’s Apollo before wrapping at Berlin’s Uber Eats Music Hall on November 13th.
Artist presales begin on Thursday, September 24th at 10am local with general on sale starting this Friday, September 24th at 10am local. For more information and ticket purchasing please visit: https://www.agnesobel.com/.
Released last week, The Meaning of Flowers" spans 12 atmospheric tracks in which Obel considers how new life remakes everything–the body, the mind, the self, and one’s sense of connection with the wider world. Drawing on the heightened sense of interconnection with all living things she experienced during pregnancy, Obel explores birth, growth and metamorphosis through influences ranging from the poetry of Enheduanna (the world’s first named author) and the philosophical writings of Hannah Arendt and Emanuele Coccia to the Danish pop scene of the 80s and 90s.
Written, recorded, arranged and produced by the artist in her Berlin studio, The Meaning of Flowers features Obel herself on vocals (some pitch-shifted), piano, keys, synths and samples, with guest musicians adding violin, viola, cello, bass, lap steel, harmonium, flute, sax, percussion and backing vocals to the mix.
“The Meaning of Flowers” was the first track written for the album. Its title came from Obel’s reading of Coccia’s The Life of Plants and Metamorphoses. As she said in a recent interview, “Flowers are these tiny things that exist within an insanely huge and complex planet of mountains and oceans, but they also have their own hyper-complex biology … So, for me, the song had to be something small and beautiful, but enormous at the same time, in the title at least.”
“Blood so Red”, about the primal experience of giving birth, was influenced by Enheduanna’s hymns to Inanna – goddess of childbirth, love, sex, song and war. “Gemini” and “Laymelli” too were inspired by Enheduanna, but also by Obel’s awareness of a complex universe “held together by the beauty and power of life and metamorphosis”, again based on ideas discussed by Coccia.
Elsewhere, “Don’t Look Down” takes influence from 70s movie scores and “Never Been” from Danish pop, while its only instrumental track “Tangerine” features sax arpeggios, celesta and piano, their upbeat combination of sounds forming a “bubbly new wondrous friendship”.
The Meaning of Flowers is dedicated to Obel’s daughter: “she who has changed me and raised me and taught me so much – and I can feel so much more awaits to be learned ”.
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Tracklisting
1. The Meaning of Flowers
2. Laymelli
3. Gemini
4. Never Been
5. Blood so Red
6. No Such Thing as Silence
7. Deem Me Now
8. Jenn’s on the way
9. Beyond the Sun
10. Tangerine
11. Don’t Look Down
12. Faustian Deal
Agnes Obel – Forthcoming Tour Dates:
24 Sep – Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane
26 Sep – Hamer Hall, Melbourne
27 Sep – Sydney Opera House
29 Sep – New Zealand International Convention Centre, Auckland
2027:
21 Sep – Tonhalle, Düsseldorf
23 Sep – Olympia, Paris
27 Sep – Royal Theatre Carré, Amsterdam
28 Sep – Muziekgebouw, Eindhoven
29 Sep – TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht
1 Oct – Sentrum Scene, Oslo
2 Oct – Konserthuset, Stockholm
3 Oct – Operaen, Copenhagen
13 Oct – Teatro Duse, Bologna
14 Oct – Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome
16 Oct – Bâtiment des Forces Motrices, Geneva
17 Oct – Halle aux Grains, Toulouse
19 Oct – Paral·lel 62, Barcelona
20 Oct – The Music Station, Madrid
23 Oct – Theatro Circo, Braga
2 Nov – Bozar, Brussels
3 Nov – Stadsschouwburg, Antwerp
4 Nov – Eventim Apollo, London
6 Nov – Amphithéâtre 3000, Lyon
9 Nov – Liederhalle (Beethoven-Saal), Stuttgart
10 Nov – Meistersingerhalle, Nuremberg
12 Nov – Laeiszhalle, Hamburg
13 Nov – Uber Eats Music Hall, Berlin
**2027 European tour tickets are on sale now.**
2027 North American Tour
May 18 – Los Angeles, CA – The Ford
May 20 – San Francisco, CA – Castro Theatre
May 22 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall
May 24 – Québec, QC – Capitol de Québec
May 25 – Montréal, QC – Théâtre St-Denis
May 26 – Ottawa, ON – Bronson Centre Music Theatre
May 28 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
May 20 – San Francisco, CA – Castro Theatre
May 22 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall
May 24 – Québec, QC – Capitol de Québec
May 25 – Montréal, QC – Théâtre St-Denis
May 26 – Ottawa, ON – Bronson Centre Music Theatre
May 28 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
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