Kristian Leth’s debut novel Mithos will be out in Danish on Lindhardt & Ringhof in May 2017. It is available for pre-order now.
Set in an alternate world, Mithos is a fantasy book about the end of the world, a quest into the unknown – and the battle inside all of us us between magic and science.
Cover and art by Emil Landgreen
Kristian Leth moderated a conversation with musical pioneer and thinker Brian Eno and groundbreaking architect Bjarke Ingels on innovation, the future of humanity and hope.
It took place at the Heartland Festival in Denmark during the summer of 2016.
Kristian will be traveling to Denmark in late October to perform with band at the Danish National Radio Concert Hall in Copenhagen and Atlas in Århus. The music will be from his two solo albums.
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He is also giving a presentation at the Danish Ethnographers’ Associations yearly Galla.
This is a video from a concert in May 2016.
The writers and producers behind BAFTA winner ‘Borgen’ – the massively successful TV series from Danish National Broadcasting, currently being remade by HBO – have begun production on a new series. Its’ Danish title is ‘Herrens Veje’ and it is an epic grand family drama centered around a family of priests.
Kristian Leth will compose the music and the entire soundtrack for all 20 episodes with his long time collaborator Fridolin Nordsø.
The radio documentary that Kristian Leth made for KCRW‘s UnFictional show about vodou spirits possessing a guest at his father’s house in 1999 is a finalist in the South California Journalism Awards. The award ceremony is held Sunday, June 26th at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in LA, it is hosted by the Los Angeles Press Club.
After an intense launch with TV appearances, newspaper interviews and radio by the authors ‘Historien om det hele’ (written together with evolutionary biologist Eske Willerslev) spent a month as #1 on the Danish Bestseller List.
The book sparked a debate about the validity of the scientific method as a model to live by. The premise of the book is that science is our foremost tool to decipher causality in nature and the material universe, but at the same time the world is so much more than that. And most scientist would acknowledge that science sheds light on a very limited field of existence. Eske Willerslev argues in the book that it is actually unscientific to jump from that standpoint to the conclusion that science somehow rules out or even argues against spiritual or religious models. Kristian Leth describes how our framework for understanding the world today is culturally defined, limited and very much just that: A framework. He also tries to go beyond the language of that framework, to approach a new language: Where we can both be modern, rational and enlightened – and at the same time talk informedly about subjects that are both real and unreal, unprovable and magical.
Written, recorded and edited by Kristian Leth, the new podcast series ‘Musikkens Historier’ (‘Music Stories’) was launched last week by Danish media house Politiken. The series went straight to the #1 spot on iTunes, with a half hour show decoding the myriad influences on Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson’s hit ‘Uptown Funk’.
The podcast was launched at a live event in Copenhagen where Kristian gave a talk, played examples from his career as a radio journalist and answered questions from the crowd.
