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 ...

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 ...

Performance recommendation by Macon Holt Later this month, Danish composer, performer and recorder player, Kirstine Lindemann, will start a tour of Denmark to showcase a collection of both earlier and new compositions with collaborators Yiran Zhao and Irene Bianco amongst others. Known for previous work such as the piece Breath (2018) and her ongoing project with Zhao, OTHER EYE, Lindemann is an artist who’s ...

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 similar initiatives like Multiversal ...

Sote. Photo by Arash Bolouri Interview by Sandra S. Borch “I get up early in the morning around 5:30 am, I go for a walk in nature, do some sound programming for a short while, take my son to preschool, and then I go to my office to work on my compositions,” Ata Ebtekar says. It sounds like a standard everyday but the results of ...

Introduktion af Anders Jørgen Mogensen. Pia Raug står for mig som en af de mest fremsynede og radikale sangskrivere i landet. Hun er bedst kendt for sangen ”Jeg vil male dagen blå”. Faktisk er den sang så velkendt, at man kan diskutere om det overhovedet stadig er Ria Raugs sang og ikke bare folkets og dets kollektive bevidsthed. Denne påstand understøttes af, at sangen ...

Af Mads Peder Lau Pedersen Der stod sådan et ranglet og tyndt og blegt rødhåret spøgelse med cowboyhat på scenen en ret kold novemberaften på et ikke ret fyldt Voxhall i Aarhus dengang i 2007. Der spillede han kantet på guitar, når ikke han sad ved klaveret og gentog linjer som ”I wore a scarf in Denmark / Just like I said I would” om og om igen. ...

Af Klaus Q Hedegaard Kill-Town Death Fest åbner i denne weekend portene til en blodrød overflod af kontemporær death metal og åndsbeslægtet musikalsk råddenskab i PUMPEHUSET, København. Dødsfesten er efterhånden et internationalt anerkendt tilløbsstykke, og en anseelig del af gæsterne er derfor også tilrejsende fra hele verden – hvilket også afspejles i festivalens program, som prydes af omtrentligt 40 bands i en ubønhørlig strøm af ...

Preview by Ivna Franić This Thursday at Mayhem, Moral Defeat presents a showcase from the Russian label, Perfect Aesthetics, featuring performances by Burning Pyre, Måla, Marble Bust and Ato Vari, with DJ support from Yuri. An evening of ambient synth romanticism to accidentally, or perhaps not, take place on Valentine’s day.