Hymns from Nineveh

Endurance in Christmas Time Reviews

★★★★★★ Berlingske
***** Christianity Today
★★★★★ Politiken
★★★★★ GAFFA
★★★★★ Soundvenue
★★★★★ BT
★★★★★ Urban
★★★★★ MetroXpress
★★★★★ Århus Stifttidende
★★★★★ Undertoner

July 2, 2011 – Roskilde Festival
Politiken (danish): (5/6) *****
Soundvenue (danish): (4/6) ****

May 28, 2011 – SPOT Festival
MOJO: “But it’s a local act that leave us thrumming with excitement. Denmark’s Hymns From Nineveh, rocking the Muskihuset’s main concert hall, demonstrate a typically Danish communion with the audience.”
Theartsdesk.com: “Hymns From Nineveh brought SPOT full circle back to the devotional feel of the Domkirke Our Broken Garden concert. In the Muskihuset’s main concert hall, Jonas Petersen and his band showcased a glorious and unselfconscious music.”

March 12, 2011 – Huset i Magstræde
Diskant (8/10) ********

March 11, 2011 - Musikcaféen
GAFFA (danish): (5/6) *****
Mathiaskirkegaard.dk (danish): (5/6) *****

February 2011 – “Hymns from Nineveh”  reviews
Aarhus Stiftstidende (Danish): (6/6) ******
Gaffa (Danish): (5/6) *****
Urban (Danish): (5/6) *****
Politiken (Danish): (4/6) ****
Jyllands Posten (Danish): (4/6) ****
Information (Danish)
Diskant (Danish): (9/10) *********
B.T. (Danish): (4/6) ****
Soundvenue.com (Danish)(4/6) ****
Undertoner (Danish)(4,5/6) ****

Blogs:
Tjit Tjat (Danish) (5/6) *****
Roskilde Stift (Danish)
Musik mig blidt (Danish)
Udfordringen (Danish)

November/December, 2009 – Uncomplicated Christmassongs reviews/blog comments
Politiken (Danish) “These hymns are simple and beautiful, and the music is a serious bid for modern, Danish neofolk-music with quietly dosed ingenuity in the arrangements.” 4/6
Gaffa.dk (Danish): “With no doubt, the most beautiful Christmasrecord since Sufjan Stevens’ Songs For Christmas” (5/6) *****
Jylllands Posten (Danish): JP picks out Uncomplicated Christmassong as one of the 24 best new christmassongs this year.
Soundvenue (Danish):  “With Hymns from Nineveh Jonas Petersen takes christmas back to its roots. And does it tremendously. (…) It is popish folk, that would make Justin Vernon proud” (4/6) ****
Diskant.dk (Danish): (7/10) *******
Undertoner (Danish): (5/6) *****
Polarblog.de (German): “Five simple, gentle, lovely arranged songs. No frosting, no trash and no laughing Santas. Modest, withdrawn songs for the evening hours.”

Bloggers:
Blaa Vinyl (Danish): “Album of the year!”
Carsten Holm (Danish)
Regnsky
Ljud (Swedish)
Blaa Vinyl (Danish): “A christmas miracle!”
Filterløs (Danish)
Mathiaskirkegaard (Danish)

August 21, 2009, Flevo Xnoizz Festival, Subyard, NL
EO.NL (Dutch): “A beautiful voice, with just a guitar accompaniment Hymns from Nineveh is one of the most impressive performances this year. A lump in my throat, butterflies in my stomach, I am in love. (…) His lyrics are often lyrical and beautifully supported by the large range of his voice. He also is a storyteller not without merit, because he easily draws the listener in his “Murder Ballads”.”

May 7, 2009: Bob Dylan tribute, Copenhagen Jazzhouse, DK
Gaffa (Danish): “… the evening’s biggest applause went to [..] Michael Møller and Jonas Petersen. Especially Jonas Petersen’s interpretation of “Girl From The North Country” was excellent. Petersen’s great voice made the song kind of fragile, and the audience was left with their breath taken away.”

April 1, 2009  DR P3 Karrierekanonen (Talentcontest – Danish National Radio)
“Here we have to do with a true artist, who with his voice can mesmerize the listener and enrich us with a much needed respite in a hurried world.”

Mar 3, 2009: Rust, København, DK
Gaffa (Danish): “You have to be made of stone, in order to avoid being touched by Jonas Petersen’s fine songs.”  – (5/6) *****

June 24, 2008
Polarblog.de (German): “Sufjan Stevens has been here benevolent godfather. As with so many aspiring young artists. Guitar, voice, understated arrangements. What singles out Jonas Petersen from the mass of imitators, are stirring intensity and the talent, heart.”

June 7, 2008: Spot Festival, Svalegangen, Århus, DK
Irish Times: “Other acts who made me nod my head over the weekend included (…) Hymns From Nineveh (like Bon Iver, Jonas Peterson abandoned the big city for a cellar in the countryside to write his tunes)”

Mojo: “Jonas Petersen takes a subtle approach. As Hymns From Nineveh, with an acoustic guitar and texture from a violinist, his crystalline voice relates songs of longing and doom. Mesmerising.”

Gaffa (Danish): (5/6) *****