Heather Leigh – Unsettling intimacy
Kritik December 8 2018
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Heather Leigh: Throne (Editions Mego, 2018) – review by Ivna Franic.
If you’re at least somewhat familiar with Heather Leigh’s music − be it by way of the stunning 2015 album “I Abused Animal”, her recent duo with Peter Brötzmann or especially her earlier, live-recorded material − you would be forgiven to be slightly taken by surprise by “Throne”’s opening lines. “You’re so interesting”, enchants ...
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Vort Fatum – New black metal festival arises at Mayhem in 2019
December 7 2018
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By Simon Christensen
Hosted by the people of Korpsånd and (the Copenhagen venue) Mayhem, a new two-day black metal festival is taking place for the first time in March 2019. The program is dedicated to the raw, contemporary black metal and will be headlined by Carved Cross from Australia and the two Montréalais bands Verglas and Akitsa, both bands released on the excellent label ...
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Courtesy – Adding nuance to the Copenhagen techno sound (interview)
November 30 2018
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Interview and reportage by Cameron Pagett. Additional photos by Kasia Zacharko.
A liberal array of red and blue light columns course across a very crowded floor. The beginning hours of morning have fallen over the city and again I am perched at the lighting desk in Volume KBH. Another year, another chapter in diy-organiser Fast Forward’s history unfolds in a smokey ...
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Freedom To Spend – “Right now is the best time to be a fan of strange and forgotten music”
November 26 2018
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Interview by Alexander Julin
Freedom To Spend started in 2017 as a sub-label to RVNG (Visible Cloaks, Oliver Coates, etc). While several other people contribute to the label, some of the primary forces behind are Matt Werth from RVNG as well as Jed Bindeman and Pete Swanson (who, on a note, also produced some phenomenal solo records in 2010-2013 and was a ...
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Korpsånd – Black metal-heresy should be praised! (interview)
November 22 2018
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By Simon Christensen
In February this year the American tape label Fallow Field sent out a double cassette tape with a collection of new Danish black metal under the name Korpsånd, “an introduction to new wave of raw DKBM”. Korpsånd (en: corpse+spirit) that connotates both a brotherhood and rising from the dead, is a term coined by Jesper Bagger Hviid, musician, sound engineer and ...
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Insomnia Festival – Northern Exposure (live report)
November 17 2018
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Insomnia Festival 2018, Tromsø. Reportage by Ivna Franic, 135 mm analogues by Lea Anic.
It’s near impossible to talk about the world’s northernmost festival of electronic music without highlighting its distinct geographical position and landscape, so let’s just get that out of the way. Taking place ...
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PAN – Electronic music’s adventurous rebellion turns 10
November 12 2018
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PAN 10 Years feat. Bill Kouligas, Puce Mary, Tzusing, Eartheater, Amnesia Scanner, Objekt and M.E.S.H., Berghain, October 2018 – live report by Sandra S. Borch
Since its launch 10 years ago, the Berlin-based label has touched noise, drone, improv, techno, dub, ambient, and several other genres, stretching and redefining electronic elegance. PAN is as messy as it is elegant. PAN is complicated. PAN is hard to ...
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Sugar – Submerged on the dance floor
Kritik October 25 2018
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Sugar “No Sex Only Feelings” (Euromantic, 2018) – review by Cameron Pagett
Sometimes it’s good to let loose… really loose. Have the ability to let yourself go and simply move and enjoy the moment, twist your hips, turn your head and give in. It’s nearing 3 AM in Volume KPH at the gateway to spring with the windows shaking and nearly giving out from the booming ...
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Maria W Horn – A haunted soundtrack for the dismantling of the misogynist traditions
Kritik October 18 2018
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Maria W Horn “Kontrapoetik” (co-released by XKatedral and Portal Editions, 2018) – review by Sandra S. Borch
What caused the Swedish composer Maria W Horn’s sounds of burning turmoil is a combination of the sound itself and the intense narrative which she has based her album upon. Maria W Horn explores the past of her home region, Ångermanland, in the north ...
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