“I just wanted to acknowledge the underlying anxiety of existence in this age and the longing for connection that I believe is so pervasive in modern humans,” explains Lynge. “We have instant access to information, but our knowledge of the source of a meaningful life is at an all-time low. We look out of our eyes and forget to observe with our heart.”
July 5th, 2019
Tune into Outlook on BBC World Service Monday July 8th 12pm & 6PM GMT/10am & 2pm PST to hear an interview
with Simon about music, life in Greenland as a kid and about being a musician from Greenland. Listen HERE
Update June 10th 2019
Simon is headed to Ottawa to perform at the Royal Danish Embassy at the personal invitation of ambassador Thomas Winkler.
Update February 18th, 2019
Simon has just completed a successful run of shows through Denmark with his band The Martial Hearts. At the vinyl release show at Hotel Cecil in Copenhagen, Simon was joined by three woodwinds to recreate the full arrangements on Deep Snow. Simon has also just released a lyric video for Deep Snow, filmed by Miki Jacobsen in Nuuk, Greenland. Watch it here
Update January 28th, 2019
Simon is getting ready for a tour through Denmark with his band The Martial Hearts
Update December 29th, 2018
Deep Snow has been included on Danish music webzine GFR's Best Danish Albums of 2018: Read in Danish
New shows in the Pacific Northwest in January 2019 have been added to SHOWS.
Update December 18th, 2018
Deep Snow is out now worldwide on Integrity Records (The World) , Songcrafter Music (Scandinavia) and Atlantic Music (Greenland). Buy on iTunes or Listen on SPOTIFY
Simon Lynge & The Martial Hearts concluded the first leg of the Deep Snow Tour in Los Angeles at Hotel Cafe on Dec 13th, after performing for victims of the Camp Fire in Chico on December 12th; a very moving and intense experience. A special THANK YOU also to the people present at the release show in Port Townsend at Palindrome!
Simon was picked as Best International Male Artist 2018 by UK music blog Listen With Monger
Deep Snow was reviewed by Danish music website GFR who gave it five stars: Read in Danish
Deep Snow was reviewed by Danish music magazine GAFFA, who gave it four stars: Read in Danish
Deep Snow was reviewed by UK music website Whisperin and Hollerin who gave it 8/10: Read in English
Update November 17th, 2018
Deep Snow was released Nov 13th in Greenland through Atlantic Music and can now be purchased in stores across the country. The CD can also be purchased from the Atlantic Music website.
Deep snow is available worldwide on all streaming platforms on November 23rd through Integrity Records and Songcrafter Music.
Update November 5th, 2018
The second single Paper Thin has been premiered by The Line of Best Fit in the UK.
First pre-release UK review of Deep Snow: "Simon Lynge is a uniquely brilliant talent in terms of his songwriting ability" from Listen With Monger
Reserve your place at London release party for Deep Snow at The Hospital Club in Covent Garden on December 3rd HERE
Update October 3rd, 2018
First single Age Of Distraction has been released worldwide by Integrity Records to critical acclaim and has received love from several great Spotify playlists. It was recently spun by Gary Crowley on BBC London and by Valida on KCRW in LA. One review by Nordic Music Review. You can purchase the single on iTunes. Simon also recently returned from his first succesful tour after a major hand injury.
NEWS
Simon will perform at The Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles on December 13th.
|Paper Thin|
"When the darkness of winter and the world wears the spirit out; Paper Thin comes from that place of stress and rumination. It's a slow moving molasses state of emotional fiction, where dreams seem completely out of reach. But we can help each other, we can hold each other, gently...
In February 2018, Richard Lobb and I isolated ourselves in the borrowed house of a traveling circus clown in the green hills of Trallong, Wales, to record an album I had sworn to myself would truly reflect my soul, rather…
Read more“Simon is a fascinating man and an amazing talent all the way from Greenland. He's an Inuit Scandinavian and he plays beautiful, beautiful music..”
— Sally Taylor, BBC
“Counting Elliott Smith and Nick Drake among his influences, Lynge's music is a brand of quite faultless melodic rich pop”
— Music Week