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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Intonal Festival, 26th–30th of April, Malmö. Review by Ivna Franic, Photos by Camilla Rehnstrand Malmö’s Intonal Festival has made it a part of its image to present lineups that don’t necessarily fit the usual European festival mold. At first glance, the festival’s 2023 program gave the impression that the curators were either extremely daring or knew their audience ...

Interview by Ivna Franić When I caught up with claire rousay via Zoom the other week before she embarked on her tour, it was early morning in LA and late afternoon here in Copenhagen. While I was tired from a long day of working, she was just getting started with her day, and that included working on her ...