Af Sofie Westh I et forsøg på at starte denne opsummering af tendenser jeg har lagt mærke til i musikåret anno 2023, gik jeg i arkiverne for at finde inspiration. Her faldt jeg over lyddesigner Peter Albrechtsens artikel fra 2021, hvis anslag minder meget om det, jeg selv sidder med lige på tungen: År 2023, om muligt endnu mere fucked up og ...

Current Resonance, “Á la Carte”. Photo: Bea Vanhala Minu Festival, November 15 – 19, 2023 – Review by Macon Holt Over five days in mid-November, the third iteration of “MINU: Festival for Expanded Music” was held in Copenhagen. The programme features a huge range of performances including more conventional contemporary classical concerts, music theatre, installation works, experiments with cake, workshops and conference ...

Ilinx, fælleskoncert d. 25. november 2023 på ALICE, anmeldelse af Mimmi Bie, foto af Ilinx Jeg har glædet mig til koncerten med vokaltrioen Ilinx på ALICE, der den seneste tid er blevet delt flittigt i mit feed. Begivenheden tager form af en fælleskoncert, fordi Ilinx er en sammenføring af tre soloprojekter; Anna Maehl, Saltmother (Amanda Appel) og LM Madsen (Laura Marie Madsen), ...

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 trickery. Kool Music’s new cassette ...

Assegai – “Water Worlds and Dry Spells” (Part Time Records, 2023) – anmeldelse af Jon Albjerg Ravnholt Som at danse om arkitektur: Assegai fortolker det ekstreme vejr som instrumental mathrock på “Water Worlds and Dry Spells”. Det er ambitiøst, men aarhusianerne lykkes med at være ordløst politiske.

By Alexander Julin Mortensen, photo: Press photo The first time I encountered the Danish sound artist, composer, researcher and visual artist Alexander Tillegreen’s work was at the contemporary gallery O-Overgaden in Copenhagen. His exhibition, entitled “Shift”, showed him working in the intersection of scientifically-inspired sound and visual art, centered around a psychoacoustic phenomenon called phantom word illusion – an auditory and language-based illusion whereby ...

Af Anton Rothstein – interview med Tobias Bendixen, foto af Elin Tårnes Det københavnske punkband Big Mess har efterhånden et par håndfulde år på bagen, men i 2023 lyder de mere friske og energiske end nogensinde før.  Fra den spæde start i 2014 var det intentionen at skrive punkrock, der var mere ”sang-agtigt”, end hvad guitarist Tobias Bendixen og sanger Michael Bojesen tidligere ...

Passive/Aggressive in 2024 Passive/Aggressive is thrilled to announce that we’re continuing our activities in 2024 due to generous support from The Danish Arts Foundation, Augustinus Foundation, Koda Culture and Tuborgfondet. As a nonprofit organisation, receiving support from Danish foundations is a necessity for us in order to be able to pay our writers and cover administrative expenses, etc. Thus, we’re enormously grateful ...

Af Alexander Julin Mortensen, foto af Nis Bysted Den danske duo Snuggle består af Vilhelm Tiburtz Strange (tidl. guitarist og producer i Liss m.m.) og Andrea Thuesen (sangskriver og sanger i Baby in Vain). Duoen debuterede tidligere i år med det vanedannende lo-fi rocknummer “State of Mind”, der med sine søvnige vokalharmonier og fængende guitarriffs markerede projektet som forholdsvist unikt i det ...