Text and mixtape by Alexander Holm “Sitting Close To A Stranger” presents unreleased tracks of Young Bragi along side favourite harp artists and storytellers. Among many darlings it features Alice Coltrane, Andreas Vollenweider and Dorothy Ashby. It features a live recording of Dawda Jorbateh from his concert at next door record shop Insula Musicʼs last day before closing down (RIP). It features the ...

Mixtape af Agnete Hannibal Petri. Introduktion af Simon Christensen. Årets traditionsrige mixtape til vintersolhvervet er kompileret af Agnes 3000 og skabt med tanke på et mildt tema over årstiderne og naturen. Sammensat på tværs af årtiets store popnavne, klassisk og avantgardistisk musik, noget nordisk om solhvervet, nyt og uudgivet materiale, samt et postkort fra Addis Ababa, hvor dagen kun aftager en enkelt time ved solhverv, modsat ...

Passive/Aggressive lancerer i dag en nonprofit videoplatform for samtidsværker med musikrelateret indhold. Og hvilken bedre måde at fejre det på end ved at vise et af årets mest omtale audiovisuelle værker; ‘Solhverv’ af Fryd Frydendahl og Lars Greve. Solhverv er et audiovisuelt portræt af Ringkøbing-Skjern Kommune, skabt i et halvåret fra sommer- til vintersolhverv, af kunstfotografen Fryd Frydendahl og musikeren ...

Excelsior “O Horizon” (Big Oil Recording Company, 2019) – Anmeldelse af Simon Christensen. Foto af Stephanie Stål Axelgård. Selvom “O Horizon” kan siges at være Anja T. Lahrmanns debutplade som Excelsior, så har hun i kraft af sin medvirken som sanger, musiker og komponist i Spillemændene, Ice Cream Cathedral, Bird Alert, The Nielsen Sisters og med Excelsior-ep’en “Superimposed” ...

By Ivna Franic The periodic excitement over locally specific music scenes appears to be alive and well, having successfully survived the beginning of the Internet age and the still rising tendency of geographically displaced scenes. It would be a stretch to say that the functioning of local scenes has not at all changed, but despite the fact that the ability to publish music releases and build up an international fanbase have become easier, reliance ...

Anders Vestergaard “Prime Float // Unitary Perfect” (Anyines 2019) – anmeldelse af Klaus Q. Hedegaard Den danske trommeslager Anders Vestergaard (Yes Deer, Boujeloud, Girls In Airports m.fl.) har et utal af fantastiske udgivelser og koncerter på sit CV, som oftest i omegnen af den eksperimenterende jazz, improviseret musik og what not for nysgerrige lyttere. Hans seneste soloudspil “Prime Float // ...

The eighth annual, international Passive/Aggressive zine is set to be released in November as part of the program for Gong Tomorrow 2019. The zine opens with a critical essay on Brian Eno’s notion of the scenius from a materialist perspective and arguing instead for Kodwo Eshun’s conception of Interpretative Communities. Unlike the scenius, which foregrounds the capacity of this ...

By Mandus Ridefelt When Charli XCX released “Charli” in September 2019, it was her third full-length album and her first after the 2016-17 mixtapes, “Vroom Vroom”, “Number 1 Angel” and “Pop 2″, that had defined her as an artist”. Particularly, the ingeniously titled “Pop 2”, which established Charli XCX as a central figure to what commonly was referred to as ...

Szymon Gąsiorek By Simon Christensen The two Copenhagen-based Polish jazz/impro-players Kamil Piotrowicz and Szymon Gąsiorek present the first edition of the international Idealistic Festival, which take place in two parts in Copenhagen and Warsaw respectively next week. The festival focus is cross-cultural exchange of independent artists and labels from the new generation of freethinking musicians and could be viewed along the lines of ...