By Ivna Franic The periodic excitement over locally specific music scenes appears to be alive and well, having successfully survived the beginning of the Internet age and the still rising tendency of geographically displaced scenes. It would be a stretch to say that the functioning of local scenes has not at all changed, but despite the fact that the ability to publish music releases and build up an international fanbase have become easier, reliance on the immediate ...

Anders Vestergaard “Prime Float // Unitary Perfect” (Anyines 2019) – anmeldelse af Klaus Q. Hedegaard Den danske trommeslager Anders Vestergaard (Yes Deer, Boujeloud, Girls In Airports m.fl.) har et utal af fantastiske udgivelser og koncerter på sit CV, som oftest i omegnen af den eksperimenterende jazz, improviseret musik og what not for nysgerrige lyttere. Hans seneste soloudspil “Prime Float // Unitary Perfect”, er ingen ...

The eighth annual, international Passive/Aggressive zine is set to be released in November as part of the program for Gong Tomorrow 2019. The zine opens with a critical essay on Brian Eno’s notion of the scenius from a materialist perspective and arguing instead for Kodwo Eshun’s conception of Interpretative Communities. Unlike the scenius, which foregrounds the capacity of this social form to produce ...

By Mandus Ridefelt When Charli XCX released “Charli” in September 2019, it was her third full-length album and her first after the 2016-17 mixtapes, “Vroom Vroom”, “Number 1 Angel” and “Pop 2″, that had defined her as an artist”. Particularly, the ingeniously titled “Pop 2”, which established Charli XCX as a central figure to what commonly was referred to as the “future of pop”. ...

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 ...

Af Simon Christensen Ark Tarp var et non-profit DIY-label, der eksisterede fra 2009 til 2011 og fokuserede på drone, noise, free folk og impro. I løbet af sin kortlivede eksistens og 3 batches af udgivelser på cd-r og kassettebånd tegnede selskabet et billede af den ikke-institutionaliserede musik, som var og skulle følge. I dag har Passive/Aggressive føjet alle udgivelserne til musikarkivet Sounds, hvor de kan høres ...

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 ...

Vellness Plader – Tak fordi I kom, August 2019 @ Illutron. Photos by Alexander Mahathai Larsen. “Der har været megen glæde forbundet med vores fællesskab. Vi har udviklet hinanden i en masse spændende forskellige retninger. Ved hjælp af venskab og musik har vi stablet noget stort og dejligt på benene, der naturligvis er ved at nå til en ende. Venner bliver ældre og bevæger sig hver ...