Tanja Vesterbye Jessen “Feeling Love” (The Cat Box Corp., 2018) review by Javier Orozco. “Feeling Love” is a guitar based album held together by tension. In spite of this being her first solo material, Tanja Vesterbye Jessen does not lack a trajectory in Copenhagen’s underground: Vinyl Dog Joy, Amstrong and currently Distortion Girls are some of the acts she has associated herself since the ...
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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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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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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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Hjalte Ross “Embody” (Wouldn’t Waste Records, 2018) – anmeldelse af Lasse Skjold Bertelsen Pladeselskabet Wouldn’t Waste Records – et enmandsforetagende baseret i Århus, der siden 2016 primært har stået for en personlig og kvalitetsbevidst linje af genudgivelser af bl.a. dansk diy-rockhistorie i form af Rhonda Harris, How Do I og Olesen-Olesen – er nu klar med sin første nyudgivelse i ...
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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 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 ...
Anmeldelse af Signe Dahlgreen “Kunki Snuk” (Insula Jazz/Astral Spirits, 2018) af Simon Christensen. Yes Deer-foto af Peter Gannushkin. At saxofonen er et både velegnet og mangefacetteret soloinstrument, det har utallige udgivelser og koncerter gennem historien bevidnet. I lighed med danske musikere som Mette Rasmussen, Sonja LaBianca, Laura Toxværd (med videre) er Signe Dahlgreen på sin solodebut også på udforskning af rumlighed, tekstur, extended techniques ...
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En serie af Simon Tornby Eduard Artemyev (f. 1937, Novosibirsk) er en russisk synthesizerpionér, som er bedst kendt for sit samarbejde med filminstruktøren Andrei Tarkovsky. Som ung klassisk komponist mødte Artemyev i starten af 1960’erne ingeniør og matematiker Yevgeniy Murzin, der var i gang med at udvikle en synthesizer. Dette resulterede i den esoteriske ANS-synthesizer og starten på Artemyevs udvikling som ...
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