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Taxi Taxi! perform Ripest Fruit in the Århus Musikhuset

May 22, 2009  Email This Post

The gogoyoko folks had been enjoying the debut E.P. by Stockholm’s Taxi
Taxi! for some time and were keen for me to shoot a performance by twin
sisters Miriam and Johanna Eriksson Berhan. The duo have the good fortune
to be on the stellar Rumraket label which is run by their manager, Efterklang’s
Rasmus Stolberg and he was happy to to have the band sing for us.

The only issue was finding a suitably quiet venue. With the wind whipping
around outside and the din of restless beer fueling festival goers inside it
was proving rather difficult until I decided to requisition an entire theater
for our use. As this was Friday and I was new to the venues I was unaware
that there were many smaller venues in the Musikhuset. I noticed that the
second largest theater was open with the spotlights on and Persian carpet
laid. Ready for showtime I thought, and using considerable enterprising
spirit I had a few burly Icelandic mates close and guard the entry doors
and had Miriam and Johanna set themselves up on the stage.

Just as we started shooting the stage crew began hauling a grand piano in
from backstage. From experience in these situations I realize that you just
have to own it and I politely informed them that Taxi Taxi! were checking the
acoustics before their afternoon show in the theater. They happily agreed to
come back in 10 minutes by which time we had shot our two videos. Here is
the first, Ripest Fruit.

Shot and edited by Stuart Rogers with sound recorded by Hreiðar Marinósson and mixed by Ben Allen.
[download as mp4]

Artists: Taxi Taxi!