Interview by Kristoffer Møllegaard, photo by Helene Bergjord
On December 1th. the Scandinavia-based improvisational trio New Borders released their debut album North on Copenhagen label CRRNT Collective. The group was formed in Gothenburg in 2021 and consists of British trumpeter Ben Rodney, Swedish saxophonist Adrian Åsling Sellius and Finnish Antti Lähdesmäki, who in the context of this release plays organ and piano.
These ...
Report by Mikkel Schou, photo by Ross Adams
Finding out what the yearly Organ Sound Art festival is about is actually hard. Beyond social media marketing and the year’s program, there’s not much information online. A casual glance at the program reveals that the scope of the festival is ambitious. Premiers of newly commissioned works every day are presented together with a host of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Reportage og fotos af Jon Albjerg Ravnholt.
Den alternative københavnske musikscene ligner sig selv, den har bare fået smilerynker og givet slip på sig selv for at danse løs. Første weekend i november samlede Festival of Endless Gratitude for 15. gang den udvidede venneflok til et eklektisk mix af lydkunst, støjrock, oldgammel folkemusik og acid house fra hele verden.
Interview af Jon Albjerg Ravnholt. Foto: PR.
Har jazzen et revolutionært potentiale i 2023? Smag På Dig Selv slynger om sig med paroler, men gør det mest, fordi det er grineren og matcher det konfrontatoriske i musikken. Som de i øvrigt slet ikke er sikre på er jazz.