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Mikkel Oldrup – The Great Gatsby møder klassisk minimalisme

June 17 2021, af Alexander Julin

Interview af Alexander Julin Mortensen Danske Mikkel Oldrup udgav i 2019 sin debut-EP “Fanshawe’s Praise” på No Technique, som han ligeledes er medstifter af. D. 25. juni udgiver han ligeledes på No Technique sit debutalbum, “Bracing Days”. Stærkt inspireret af bl.a. klassisk minimalisme har Oldrup skabt et album, der føles både intenst og beroligende med sin vekslen mellem tempi, følelsesladet klaver og galopperende trommerytmer.

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Black Midi – Langt hinsides postpunken

Kritik June 10 2021, af mikkelarre

Black Midi “Cavalcade” (Rough Trade, 2021) – anmeldelse af Daniel Niebuhr, foto: Yis Kid En kultleder flankeret af elfenbensblege brunetter gør sit indtog på byens hovedgade for at prædike om tolerance og plads forskellighed, inden hans følge af myreslugere gør oprør og vælter ham fra sit podium.

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N.E.GIRL – Music can extend our identities

Blog Print June 7 2021, af nilsbloch

Collage by N.E.Girl The following is an excerpt from our newly released Festskrift IV. A collection of reflections around the phenomenon of RHYTHM – written, illustrated and recorded by musicians, graphic designers, DJ’s and multidisciplinary artists. N.E.Girl is a UK bass DJ blending styles from different underground scenes. She is also one third of the Copenhagen based label Solumn Records and a resident at Co-Select – ...

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August Rosenbaum & CTM – At bevæge sig inden i et værk (interview)

Feature June 3 2021, af passive/aggressive

August Rosenbaum og Cæcilie Trier, foto: Ea Verdoner Redigeret af Mikkel Arre August Rosenbaum og Cæcilie Trier er velkendte skikkelser på den uafhængige københavnske musikscene som komponister og sangskrivere, instrumentalister og producere. Både i eget navn og som akkompagnatører har de fundet eget land et sted mellem det elektroniske og det nyklassiske, det improviserede og det komponerede. Nu er de sammen aktuelle med en ny LP og ...

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Simian – En aften i kontrasternes tegn

May 31 2021, af Alexander Julin

Reportage af Alexander Julin Mortensen, foto af Brian Kure Kontorbygningen Neroport slår mig som et pragteksemplar på nymoderne og fremmedgørende arkitektur. Ligesom Fields på den anden side af gaden ligner bygningen mest af alt et hjem for ting eller transaktioner snarere end et sted, hvor mennesker hører til. Derfor overrasker det mig også, at det netop er her, jeg ender, da jeg d. 21. maj skal ...

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Mark Fisher: Learning to Desire Differently – Afterword to the Danish Translation of Capitalist Realism

Feature May 26 2021, af passive/aggressive

Essay by Macon Holt

Capitalist Realism is a book about how to understand a context. This context is an inflection point between history, political economy, society, culture, bodies and aesthetics. The fact that Mark was British and lived in Britain his whole life probably played a role in this too. There is something special about the kind of despair that emerges in a place haunted by the fading memories, the atrophying institutions and the regressive values of a fading empire. This is the kind of place where, following the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the triumph of liberal market capitalism over, what some have called, communism, the declaration of history’s end was also the start of, what Mark called, “the slow cancellation of the future”. Læs resten

Jeppe Zeeberg – “a fuller listening experience of this particular album”

Kritik May 17 2021, af passive/aggressive

Jeppe Zeeberg and the Absolute Pinnacle of Human Achievement (som foruden kapelmesteren selv tæller f.v. Henrik Olsson, Søren Høi og Casper Nyvang Rask) står for omkring halvdelen af numrene på The Full Experience. Foto: Malthe Folke Ivarsson. Jeppe Zeeberg “The Full Experience” (selvudgivet, 2021) – anmeldelse af Jeppe Zeeberg Der er noget næsten demonstrativt selvrefererende over Jeppe Zeebergs nye album. Musikken handler om musik, den refererer andres ...

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The Unknown Inside Us – A conversation between Marcela Lucatelli and Bent Sørensen about the current state of diversity in Danish institutions

May 10 2021, af passive/aggressive

A few years ago, the Danish Composers’ Society (Dansk Komponistforening) conducted a survey, which confirmed that opera houses, orchestras, ensembles, etc. are, in our eyes, playing far too little new music, and that female composers are grossly underrepresented. After the review was made public, I was asked in an interview whether I could hear a difference in music made by women and men—because, if there wasn’t actually a difference, then it didn’t make sense, in the eyes and ears of the interviewer, to single out or advocate for music made by women. That was, of course, a provocation, but can you point to any differences in music made by women and men?

“The Unknown Inside Us” is a conversation between composers Marcela Lucatelli and Bent Sørensen about the current state of diversity in Danish institutions. Læs resten

Gabestok – Et vue ud over elendigheden

Kritik May 6 2021, af mikkelarre

Gabestok “Én gang rådden, altid rådden” (Strange Aeons Records, 2021) – anmeldelse af Daniel Niebuhr Det er – selv på Gabestoks andet fuldlængdeudspil – stadig svært at begribe, at Fleep og Dø er de eneste aktører i københavnerduoen. “Én gang rådden, altid rådden” føles nemlig akkurat som forgængerne “På herrens brakmark” og “Tre” større end en tomandsbedrift, hvilket munder ud i en voluminøs, gennemsmadrende ...

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