Intonal 2025 – Ten years of gutsy moves
April 22 2025, af Ivna Franic

This year's edition of Malmö's Intonal marks the festival's tenth anniversary. From its early days as a collaboration with Berlin's CTM and Krakow's famed Unsound festival, Intonal has grown into a thing completely of its own. Rather than trying to copy the successful but heavily international scene-driven formulas of other European festivals, it focused on cultivating a close relationship with the local audience – from the festival's intimate setting to the lineup, designed to both reflect the interests of the Malmö scene and showcase its talent. Some of the reasons for this are beautifully explained in the festival manifesto in the words of none other than the great Shania Twain.
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Irene Bianco – Finding beauty in decay (interview)
April 7 2025, af Ivna Franic

Italian percussionist Irene Bianco's debut album Kronblade, released in October 2024 via Valentina Magaletti and Fanny Chiarello's wxmen-focused label Permanent Draft, garnered attention for its imaginative and subtly genre-bending approach to percussion.
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Erik Klinga – Chasing the Light
Kritik
February 14 2025, af Ivna Franic

Erik Klinga – Elusive Shimmer (Thanatosis Produktion, 2025) – Review by Ivna Franić
Erik Klinga’s solo debut Elusive Shimmer finds the seasoned drummer in the warm embrace of modular synthesis, building on the analog synth foundation with field recordings, organ, and rhythm machine. The first in a trilogy of albums by the Malmö & Copenhagen-based musician on ...
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Organ Sound Art Festival – Investigating the Organ (interview)
Feature
December 11 2024, af Ivna Franic

Photo: Jan Høgh Stricker
Interview with Jan Høgh Stricker, curator of Organ Sound Art Festival, by Ivna Franić
Having settled comfortably into its mid-December slot, the Organ Sound Art Festival has come to present Copenhagen’s experimental music heads’ favorite way to close out the concert and festival year. First started in 2016, the festival takes place at Nørrebro’s KoncertKirken, taking advantage ...
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Festival of Endless Gratitude – High Risk, High Reward
October 30 2024, af Ivna Franic

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 ...
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Strøm Festival 2024: MUSIKZAG – Meandering current
September 11 2024, af Ivna Franic

Foto: Flemming Bo Jensen
Live review by Ivna Franic
Much like the 2023 program, this year’s Strøm Festival balanced between two extremes: the party – as expected of an electronic music festival, and the meditation. On the one hand, the festival featured its now-traditional metro party Trans-Metro Express as well as several other club music events, while on the ...
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In Situ Festival – Taking the audience on a journey (interview)
Feature
May 1 2024, af Ivna Franic

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 ...
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Space Afrika – “Experience is at the root of everything that we produce” (Interview)
Blog
March 23 2024, af Ivna Franic

By Ivna Franic, photos by Glauco Canalis
The concert season in Copenhagen is gearing up to be the most exciting it’s been in ages, and Space Afrika makes for one of its high points. Their upcoming show was as good an excuse as any to catch up with the duo made up of two Joshuas – Reid and ...
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Kool Music – No Horsing Around
Kritik
December 1 2023, af Ivna Franic

Kool Music – “Trois Horses” (Escho, 2023) – review by Ivna Franic
From the name of the project to the visual aesthetic of some of the releases, artist and writer Jasper Baydala’s Kool Music has a slightly tongue-in-cheek feel to it. When it comes to the actual music he makes, however, there is little evidence of unseriousness and ...
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