ML Buch + Dear Noraconcert
ML Buch (Marie Louise Buch) is a Copenhagen-based composer, producer, guitarist and vocalist. Following debut EP Fleshy (2017), she released her critically acclaimed album Skinned on Danish imprint Anyines in 2020. Suntub, a 15-track double album, was released in October 2023 on cult new label 15 love.
In her compositional practice, ML Buch sketches out her music in an architectural way. The raw material is generated through immersion in playing and assembling as a way of triggering random magic. Her live performances, both in solo and group formations, reflects her love of combining 7-string electric guitars in open tunings with synthetic instruments and experimental electronics.
ML Buch has performed at venues including the ICA (London, UK), Volksbühne (Berlin, DE), Pitchfork Paris Avant-Garde (Paris, FR), Public Records (New York, US) and more. She has also performed as part of Laurie Anderson’s Talking Choir project.
She has also completed commissioned work with poet Ingvild Lothe and contributed to releases by artists including CTM, Jura and Astrid Sonne.
Dear Nora is an alternative indie-pop project fronted by songwriter and producer Katy Davidson, with a rotating cast of collaborators. Her songwriting and recordings are imbued with the energy, intensity and vastness of the western United States landscapes of Arizona, Oregon and California.
Beginning as a DIY pop-punk band between 1999–2008, Dear Nora took a break before evolving into a more poetic, expansive and genre-bending act from 2017 onwards. In the time between, Davidson played guitar and keyboards in the bands YACHT and Gossip. What has remained constant are Dear Nora’s melodic hooks, vocal harmonies and lyrics about time, space, capitalism, the internet and daily life.
Dear Nora’s live performance at MUNCH – their Norwegian debut – will feature Katy Davidson singing and playing electric guitar, and her longtime collaborator Zach Burba playing bass and synthesizer.
