Maria W Horn “Kontrapoetik” (co-released by XKatedral and Portal Editions, 2018) – review by Sandra S. Borch What caused the Swedish composer Maria W Horn’s sounds of burning turmoil is a combination of the sound itself and the intense narrative which she has based her album upon. Maria W Horn explores the past of her home region, Ångermanland, in the north ...

Af Danny Kreutzfeldt fra Gondolin Records. Hvad får man, hvis man blander den norske black metals oprindelige æstetik med fantasy-nostalgi og industrial-musikkens mørke stringens? Det er ikke halvdelen af en joke, men et relevant spørgsmål, når man beskæftiger sig med i mine øjne en af de mest interessante musikscener i verden lige nu.

Mixtape by Chris Shields, introduction by Simon Christensen.

Copenhagen-based musician, producer and sculpturist Chris Shields, also performing under the monikers Ro, Marcel Du Swamp and in the duo Vid Edda, grew up split between Baltimore and relatives on the European continent, mostly in the Alps. As his own music draws from a wide range of sources, so does this new autumn mixtape “Leaves are changing colors, head is turning from the sun towards hands and the ground”, made for Passive/Aggressive. The mixtape reflects the sounds of Ro/Chris Shields who envelopes both noise music, musique concrète, field recordings, recorded speech, modular synthesizer systems as well as handcrafted instruments in wood.

Leaves are changing colors, head is turning from the sun towards hands and the ground. A collection of favorites to enjoy. Track list below.

die Reihe – Vocoder (Anòmia, 2018), review by Mikkel Rørbo. “Vocoder” is Jack Callahan’s new EP under the die Reihe moniker. We are told that much in the first few seconds listening to said record. All of “Vocoder” is focused around the reading of a text by Callahan explaining e.g. the history of the vocoder and the components of the EP’s sections; there is ...

Interview af Alexander Julin, foto af Neal Mcqueen Rasmus Juncker begyndte at producere musik tilbage i folkeskolen, men det blev først på den anden side af flere års musikstudier, at trangen til selv at producere for alvor vendte tilbage. Med udgangspunkt i bl.a. klassisk minimalisme og filosoffen Deleuzes læsning af Immanuel Kant forsøgte Juncker at skabe sit eget personlige udtryk, der ikke blot var sammenfaldende med hans musikalske inspirationskilder. Inspirationen forblev dog ikke udelukkende på ...

Af Emil Grarup Jijikusanda x Bandom debuterede i slutningen af august med LP’en “Kyopo”. Gruppen er et endnu spædt skud på det alsidige og efterhånden rimeligt robuste slægtstræ, som tilsammen udgør det København-baserede pladeselskab Visage, og som de seneste år har affødt en række bands, der har brudt grænserne for, hvordan især rock, hiphop og kammermusik kan podes med hinanden. I denne anledning har vi stillet ...

Reportage from Festival of Endless Gratitude 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark 20-22/Sep/2018, by Javier Orozco. Video recordings by Morten Siclau Bruun. Festival of Endless Gratitude once again proved it is one of the city’s most relevant outlets for deviant sounds, a vessel for obscure and unusual sonics, via a three day program that assembles local and international underground acts. This year the volunteer-run festival presented its ...

Interview by Alexander Julin, photo: Sean Marc Lee Alex Zhang Hungtai has been creating enormously diverse music throughout his career. In addition to the also stylistically diverse project Dirty Beaches, Hungtai has been releasing music under the moniker Last Lizard and more lately in his own name. Besides the more free jazzed collaboration with David Meranha and Gabriel Ferrandini as well as ...

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 disappointment, poor previous experiences ...