Interview by Macon Holt
The small Copenhagen music platform, Anyines, was founded in 2017 by long-time members of the Danish electronic (is there any other kind) music scene, Villads Klint (Minais B) and Aske Zidore (An Gella). Based out of the administrative building for a former maintenance facility for the Danish State train company DSB, the locations of their studio has the same atmosphere ...
Flawless Victory “Sometimes” (self-released, 2019) – Interview by Cameron Pagett
It’s been nearly three years since the Copenhagen-based band Flawless Victory took up instruments and started performing. In that time they have in many ways become everybody’s favorite band that never made recordings or released anything. Consisting of lead singer Jonathan Holst Bruus, synth-master Christopher Jørgensen, bass guitarist Magnus Holger Hjortlund and electric guitar-wizard ...
Sote. Photo by Arash Bolouri
Interview by Sandra S. Borch
“I get up early in the morning around 5:30 am, I go for a walk in nature, do some sound programming for a short while, take my son to preschool, and then I go to my office to work on my compositions,” Ata Ebtekar says. It sounds like a standard everyday but the results of ...
Af Simon Christensen
Som en svanesang på det lille odensianske diy-label Pladeselskabet Pladeselvskab har musiker/radiovært Jonas Torstensen samlet en ambitiøs kompilation med bidrag fra de forskellige eksperimenterende musikscener rundt om i landet. Titlen er “En Samling Af Ny Dansk Musik”, og den udkommer på dobbelt-kassettebånd med håndlavede covers. Fra i dag er udgivelsen også tilgængelig via musikarkivet Sounds.
Musikalsk spænder samlingen over mange forskellige udtryk fra det inderlige og ambiente, til sfæriske sangere og svævende lydcollager. De medvirkende omfatter velkendte eksperimenterende kunstnere som Sonja LaBianca, Bona Fide, Gry Bagøien, Marie Eline Hansen, Asger Valentin, Brynje, Ydegirl og Xenia Xamanek Lopez, der bl.a. har udgivelser på eget værelse, Escho, Visage og Anyines bag sig, samt flere nye navne, der udgiver noget for første gang.
“Der er noget helt vildt fedt over at sidde og prøve at samle musikken fra det vildt fantastiske miljø, vi efterhånden har i Danmark. Også bare for at prøve at forbinde små miljøer rundt omkring i landet på tværs af genre. Kunstnerne er jo meget forskellige og er egentlig mest samlet ud fra, at de alle er folk, jeg har stor respekt for og som har gang i spændende ting. Så har jeg forsøgt at bygge båndene op, så de mere eksperimenterende stykker mikses sammen med noget der er mere ligetil,” fortæller Jonas Torstensen i et mailinterview.
Interview by Astrid Hald
Iconic composer and sound designer extraordinaire Suzanne Ciani made her way by Malmö last month to give a live quadraphonic performance at the culture house Inkonst, dedicated to experimental art and music. While being classically trained American Ciani entered the forefront of the world of electronics in the ‘60s when encountering synthesizer pioneer Don Buchla and thus the Buchla analogue modular synthesizer – the instrument which has become inseparable from her name ever since. After debuting with the experimental “Voices of Packaged Souls” in 1970, she has produced an endless string of masterpieces, all of which have contributed to the expansion and humanisation of the experience of electronic sound – and earned her 5 Grammy-nominations over time – through albums, films scores and commercials, such as one of her iconic ‘voice-over’ to the computerised washing machine.
After a 40 year break from performing live with the Buchla, she returned in 2016 and has been touring on and off since then. But no performance is a given, she tells Passive/Aggressive in Malmö. “The day it breaks is the day I stop. It’s not an automatic thing like, “oh, you’re gonna do another Buchla concert?” It’s like am I gonna do another?”
Ahead of her performance, we sat down with her for a conversation about being a female pioneer that has paved the way for a new generation of analogue aficionados.
Af Alexander Julin Mortensen
Natal Zaks er en umådeligt produktiv elektronisk musiker, der efterhånden ikke længere kræver den store introduktion. Som involveret i pladeselskaberne Help, Regelbau, No Hands, SAINO m.fl., og aktiv i gruppen Maizena og soloprojekterne Alle, Central, El Trick, Timeman og Palta har Zaks i senere år været én af de drivende kræfter bag aarhusiansk housemusik, der med rette har fået ros ...
Foto: Josefine Seifert
Ydegirl “words woozy in the breeze” (Escho, 2019) – Interview af Nils Bloch-Sørensen
For nogle uger siden udgav Ydegirl nummeret “words woozy in the breeze” med tilhørende video. Nummeret, der er forløber for et album, som udkommer til september, er en afsøgning af både sprogets og blikkets intime møder. I forbindelse med udgivelsen stillede vi Novél et par spørgsmål, der blev besvaret i ...
Foto: Nanna Kolborg Jensen
Musik Til Mor “ζωή” (Aftenrutine, 2019) – Interview af Nils Bloch-Sørensen
I dag udkommer Musik Til Mors niende album, “ζωή” [zåæh]. Et langt stream of consciousness fatamorgana, der langsomt borer sig ind i hjertet af det spirituelle. Albummet er overstrøet med litterære og bibelske referencer og uddrag, der blander sig med de sagte toner, der visse steder giver mindelser om Under ...
Interview by Peter Jørgensen
Following the output and inherent growth of composer Sean McCann has been a joyous ride for me for the past couple of years. His personal and fresh approach to composing and combining sound worlds has made for some of the past years’ most interesting releases. With the added bonus of being refreshingly ignorant of “the latest trend”.
Besides his output as a composer, ...