The Naked was a
Danish indie-rock band that existed from the end of the 1980s and disbanded in 1999. The band started out under the name Naked Lunch, later shortening the name to Naked, and finally to The Naked.
The band was formed by Kasper Andersen (vocal, guitar) and Jacob Als Thomsen (guitar), who met in high school in the mid-eighties. Andersen started out as drummer, but switched to guitar after Thomsen left temporarily to study abroad. At this time guitarist Anders Reuss and bass player Søren Rohde had joined. The band rehearsed with a drum machine until Emil Landgreen joined the band as a drummer in the summer of 1990, coinciding with the return of Thomsen. This line-up started playing regularly on the Copenhagen underground scene in late 1990. At the time of the band's first album, Søren Rohde had left to be replaced by Andreas Koch on bass. During the recording Landgreen left to join
Speaker Bite Me and was replaced by Rene Thorny. Astrid Bruun Johansen joined on viola after the second album.
The Naked introduced the experimental, noisy and distortion-laden sound of then contemporary American and British
indie-rock to the
Copenhagen music scene, inspired by the
post-punk sounds of
Sonic Youth
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,
Swans,
My Bloody Valentine, and
Loop. The band later turned towards a more introverted style which still maintained these dissonant elements but tempered them with almost folk-like arrangements.
The second album, ''Pass Out'', was produced by
Chris Brokaw of
Come and
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. The Naked supported Come on the band's tour of northern Europe in 1998. The grand old man of Danish rock,
Steen Jørgensen
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, also appeared as lead vocalist on a track of the band's 1997 EP, ''Some Kind Of Beautiful''. In Copenhagen, the band opened for
Mercury Rev and
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, amongst others. From 1996 to 1999, Andersen took up the drums again in the band
Sfu·ma·to. Anders Reuss played bass in
Death Tothe
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from 1990 to 1993 and
Port Friendly in 1995 and 1996.
After the break-up and Andersen's
sex reassignment surgery,
many band members continued in
Ensemble Orlando
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* Ensemble (band), a project of Olivier Alary
* Ensemble cast (drama, comedy)
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.
Discography
*''All The Good Things Are Gone'' (CD, 1994, AGM Music)
*
Pass Out' (CD, 1996,
Crunchy Frog)
*''Some Kind Of Beautiful'' (10" EP, 1997,
Crunchy Frog)
*''How Could One Ever Think Anything's Permanent'' (CD, 1999,
Purderous Magina Records)
Compilations
*''Children Of The Night'' - a
Roky Erickson
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tribute (LP, 1997)
A Decade Of Crunchy Frog Music(2xCD, 2004,
Crunchy Frog)
References
Politikens Dansk rock 1956-1997,
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Danish musical groups
Danish indie rock groups