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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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Festival of Endless Gratitude – Man skal ville nysgerrigheden

September 27 2024, af Jon Albjerg Ravnholt

Interview af Jon Albjerg Ravnholt. Fotos: Christian Møller Blæhr m.fl. Med nysgerrigheden og 00’ernes spraglede altfortærende musikalske åbenhed som ledende princip har Festival of Endless Gratitude siden 2009 én gang om året samlet bands, musikere og kunstnere på tværs af genreskel til en fejring af alt det, musikken kan være og kan gøre ved os. Avantgardistisk kompositionsmusik spiller side om ...

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Festival of Endless Gratitude – en fejring af det anderledes, som vi kender det

Feature November 9 2023, af Jon Albjerg Ravnholt

Reportage og fotos af Jon Albjerg Ravnholt. Den alternative københavnske musikscene ligner sig selv, den har bare fået smilerynker og givet slip på sig selv for at danse løs. Første weekend i november samlede Festival of Endless Gratitude for 15. gang den udvidede venneflok til et eklektisk mix af lydkunst, støjrock, oldgammel folkemusik og acid house fra hele verden.

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Festival of Endless Gratitude – Reconfigured and re-enchanted

November 2 2021, af mikkelarre

Stefan Lakatos & Bengt Tribukait Festival of Endless Gratitude, October 22, Koncertkirken, Copenhagen – live report by Ivna Franic, photos: Keith Canisius After years of mostly taking place at KPH Volume, the 2020 edition of Festival of Endless Gratitude was held at Nørrebro’s Koncertkirken. This year, the awesomely titled festival took on a whole new shape, spanning several separate dates and three different venues. The journey started ...

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Festival of Endless Gratitude 2020 – Opening the windows of the mind (live report)

September 22 2020, af mikkelarre

Manuel Göttsching & Cirklen – photo: Christian Møller Blæhr Festival of Endless Gratitude, Koncertkirken, Copenhagen, September 10-13 – live report by Wieland Rambke For the 13th year now, Festival Of Endless Gratitude opened its doors for an adventurous audience. What today is a festival celebrating experimental music from around the globe has gone through a long history of changes now: Originally a festival with a focus ...

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Festival of Endless Gratitude – Ambling the rim of sound (live review)

October 2 2018, af passive/aggressive foeg2018farvel

Reportage from Festival of Endless Gratitude 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark 20-22/Sep/2018, by Javier Orozco. Video recordings by Morten Siclau Bruun. Festival of Endless Gratitude once again proved it is one of the city’s most relevant outlets for deviant sounds, a vessel for obscure and unusual sonics, via a three day program that assembles local and international underground acts. This year the volunteer-run festival presented its ...

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STILL – Dokument over en transkulturel opløsningsproces

Kritik October 22 2017, af emilgrarup STILL-PAN-copy

Still “I” (PAN, 2017) – anmeldelse af Emil Grarup Milanesiske Simone Trabucchi har under aliaset STILL udsendt et nyt album på det allestedsnærværende Berlin-baserede pladeselskab PAN. Det har fået titlen “I” og er ni numre langt. Trabucchi, som på “I” samarbejder med seks afrikansk-italienske sangere, er bl.a. kendt under aliaset Dracula Lewis og desuden som primus motor bag pladeselskabet Hundebiss, der ud over hans ...

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Festival of Endless Gratitude 2017 – Sketching the outer edges of sound (reportage)

October 14 2017, af passive/aggressive 2017_FESTIVALOFENDLESSGRATITUDE_SH-27

Festival of Endless Gratitude 2017, Sydhavnsgade, September 29-October 1. Reportage by Javier Orozco – photos by Stefan Thorndahl, videos by Morten Sichlau Bruun. The chant of ‘Gabestok! Gabestok!’ pervaded the air anticipating the Copenhagen-duo’s ground level performance. As soon as their sonic assault was unleashed, the choir became all fists and mosh pit. Those of us who stepped out of the rumble still felt ...

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