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 ...

Reportage and photographs by Cameron Pagett The room of Pumpehuset’s main stage is empty. Empty but for two zany lighting technicians playing DJ to a pair of blinking strobes. On the main stage, there is a metal bar holding a tapestry of thin, vertical, clear plastic panels, which hold a keyboard in a tiny enclosure surrounded by LED lamps quaintly behind them. ...

Blonde Redhead at Vega, August 29th 2018 – live report by Ivna Franić Passing on opportunities to indulge your 16-year-old self by going to see bands you were into at an earlier stage in life (and had slightly lost interest in over the years) normally isn’t a very difficult task, at least for some of us. Whether it’s out of fear of ...

U.S. Girls @ Hotel Cecil, May 6th 2018 – live review by Ivna Franic. So apparently 2018 is the year I finally get to see some of my old underground heroes such as Félicia Atkinson, Circuit des Yeux and U.S. Girls live for the first time. About a decade since they’ve started out as experimental solo outings, some of them ...

Kelela “Take Me Apart” (Warp, 2017) / Kelela, live at Pumpehuset – review by Ivna Franic. Photo by Anna M. Kanabas. Los Angeles-based Kelela’s 2013 mixtape Cut 4 Me was not only an introduction to a new, powerful voice of contemporary r&b: it was also a demonstration of an original approach to the genre’s sometimes not-overtly-exciting musical backdrop. As much as ...

Vanessa Amara + Health & Safety, Koncertkirken, 22. juni – liveanmeldelse af Mikkel Arre / Foto: Martin Breidahl Selv om det kollektive aspekt er noget af det, der adskiller koncertoplevelser fra at høre musik hjemme i stuen, sker det ret sjældent, at man får fornemmelsen af rent faktisk at være en del af et fællesskab sammen med resten ...

By Javier Orozco The aptly titled arrangement Fireside Music takes place within the context of Kulturnatten, the Culture Night in Copenhagen. It is organized by Astrid Noacks Atelier’s curator and performance artist in her own right Jenny Gräf (who we interviewed earlier this year). The event will offer the opportunity to experience Tom Carter, Ka Baird who has been associated ...

Af Simon Christensen I dag kan den årlige Festival of Endless Gratitude offentliggøre hele festivalprogrammet, og i den absolut mest positive forstand bliver vi som sædvanlig budt på en stribe danske kuriositeter og internationale obskure outsidere, hvoraf flere af dem nyder kultstatus inden for ekstremt små miljøer. Det mest karakteristiske kendetegn ved den velkuraterede festival er imidlertid en Forflyttelse af Coordinaternes ...

Af Simon Christensen Ud over at lægge navn til en jazzfestival og have haft et vist rimeligt godt metalmiljø i 90’erne er det sjældent, der dukker noget op på musikradaren fra Danmarks ældste by, Ribe. Men i forbindelse med fejringen af Ribe Kunstmuseums 125-års-jubilæum afholder Adam Pultz Melbye og Esbjerg Ensemble minifestivalen Lyt til Ribe, der af ensemblet bliver ...