Movits!

The Swedish band Movits! – brothers Johan and Anders Rensfeldt, and Joakim Nilsson – got hooked on swing after hearing Benny Goodman’s “Sing, Sing, Sing” at a festival after-party. They call their music Äppelknyckarjazz (“Apple-stealing jazz,” after trousers worn by Swedish street kids in the ’30s and ’40s). Even if you don’t speak their language, you’ll get the groove. They stole the show at last year’s Lotus. “Movits! sounds like a party, pure and simple, and a party needs no translation” (Consequenceofsound.net). Sponsored by IU West European Studies Center