Passive/Aggressive
In Situ Festival – Taking the audience on a journey (interview)
Feature
May 1 2024, af ivnafranic
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 ivnafranic
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 ivnafranic
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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claire rousay – “You can’t really help what affects you” (interview)
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April 11 2023, af ivnafranic
Interview by Ivna Franić
When I caught up with claire rousay via Zoom the other week before she embarked on her tour, it was early morning in LA and late afternoon here in Copenhagen. While I was tired from a long day of working, she was just getting started with her day, and that included working on her music. Hardly surprising, I ...
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Laila Sakini and Thomas Bush – Tangible Intimacy
Blog
March 13 2023, af ivnafranic
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 ivnafranic
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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