About
Simon Glöde writes songs for people to sing together. His live shows, which he calls Concert Ceremonies, sit between a concert and a singing circle. He plays guitar, harmonium and electronic layers, teaches each chorus as it comes and then lets the room take over. He plays solo and with his trio, but most of all, the room becomes the orchestra. As one guest put it afterwards: "I felt like I was being played like an instrument."
He grew up between two languages, Danish and German, in a border town in northern Germany, and left home at 15 to make a living from music, at first playing pubs, corporate events and weddings across Europe. Later he toured with a band playing sold-out Frank Sinatra shows at DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen. Young Simon was a performer in every sense. Then he spent years in Rishikesh, India, learning the opposite: music that isn't about the person on stage.
He came back with a new main instrument. The harmonium was invented in Paris, taken to India in the 1800s and became the sound of its folk and sacred music. In Simon's hands it travels back again, into songs that sit between indie folk, electronic production and the call-and-response singing he found in India. His latest album, Invincible (2026), was recorded in Rishikesh.
What came out of those years is music he sees as functional: songs that bring people together, settle the mind and stay with people through the important chapters of their lives. Some listeners call it medicinal pop.
Concert Ceremonies didn't fit into any existing format, so Simon built one himself: finding the rooms, bringing his own sound system, selling every ticket. In 2026, their third year, the shows started selling out. They're intimate evenings in yoga studios for up to 120 people, and the same faces keep coming back. In 2027 he plays India, Guatemala, Mexico, France and Portugal.
His sound weaves acoustic instruments with cinematic, electronic textures, moving between intimate songwriting and ecstatic mantra. It always takes its shape from the room it's played in.
When he isn't touring, Simon is back in India and back in the studio. He produces all of his own music and works as a producer for other artists, which comes from the same instinct as his Concert Ceremonies: making room for other voices. He is currently finishing an EP of traditional Indian chants, songs people have sung together for centuries.
