Passive/Aggressive

Festival of Endless Gratitude – High Risk, High Reward

October 30 2024, af Ivna Franc

Photos: Niclas Hawkesworth & FOEG Festival of Endless Gratitude, 3.-5.10.2024., Kildevæld Kulturcenter The Festival of Endless Gratitude (FOEG) doesn’t give a fuck. It opens with a lecture on an organ tone archive, followed by performances of WWII partisan resistance songs. It books a spoken-word performance of a fable in Italian. It takes a collective dinner break in the middle of the ...

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Strøm Festival 2024: MUSIKZAG – Meandering current

September 11 2024, af Ivna Franc

Foto: Flemming Bo Jensen Live review by Ivna Franic Much like the 2023 program, this year’s Strøm Festival balanced between two extremes: the party – as expected of an electronic music festival, and the meditation. On the one hand, the festival featured its now-traditional metro party Trans-Metro Express as well as several other club music events, while on the other it presented events ...

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In Situ Festival – Taking the audience on a journey (interview)

Feature May 1 2024, af Ivna Franc

By Ivna Franic In Situ Festival is back, scheduled for this coming Friday and Saturday. While the festival’s first edition, which took place in late 2022, explored the possibilities of different venues in Ørestad, this time In Situ will take place exclusively at Simian. This year’s festival features exciting international names such as Jana Rush, Moritz von Oswald presenting ‘Silencio’, the Lucy ...

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Kool Music – No Horsing Around

Kritik December 1 2023, af Ivna Franc

Kool Music – “Trois Horses” (Escho, 2023) – review by Ivna Franic From the name of the project to the visual aesthetic of some of the releases, artist and writer Jasper Baydala’s Kool Music has a slightly tongue-in-cheek feel to it. When it comes to the actual music he makes, however, there is little evidence of unseriousness and trickery. Kool Music’s new cassette ...

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Intonal Festival 2023 – Bold Choices

Blog May 17 2023, af Ivna Franc

Intonal Festival, 26th–30th of April, Malmö. Review by Ivna Franic, Photos by Camilla Rehnstrand Malmö’s Intonal Festival has made it a part of its image to present lineups that don’t necessarily fit the usual European festival mold. At first glance, the festival’s 2023 program gave the impression that the curators were either extremely daring or knew their audience very well. Or, who ...

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Laila Sakini and Thomas Bush – Tangible Intimacy

Blog March 13 2023, af Ivna Franc

After a quiet winter period that offered very few exciting gigs, March has seen the new concert season kick off in full swing. FELT – the Copenhagen-based record label/promoter entity run by Perko – provided a real treat last Thursday in the form of a double bill featuring Laila Sakini and Thomas Bush.

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Rhizome – Spreading the roots

Feature March 3 2023, af Ivna Franc

Feature by Ivna Franic, photo: Rhizome label logo Over the past couple of years, the Copenhagen-based label Rhizome has put out a string of eclectic releases that cover different fields of experimental music. Their 2021 compilation bag/belly/box, conceptually based around the essay ‘The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’, provides perhaps the best glimpse into the Rhizome universe. In the essay, Ursula K. ...

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