Creation Keeps The Devil Away

Multi-instrumentalist, singer, and provocateur, Mikkel Hess has been hard at work on a new album since 2009's Hess Is More - Hits was selected as one of Time Out Magazine's Top 10 Albums of the Year. Having scored for theater, composed for films and collaborated with artists on performance pieces, Mikkel curates a process that resembles something akin to that of a collagist - taking inspiration and integrating references from art, film, music and magic. The resulting, all-encompassing approach has drawn comparisons to everyone from Erlend Oye and Jon Brion, to CAN and the music you might find on Smalltown Supersound. Hess has evolved this genre-defying project, collaborating with local musicians and fellow Dane, cowriter/producer Rasmus Bille Bahncke for the past two years on the exhilarating new album, Creation Keeps the Devil Away.