By Ivna Franić, photos via www.intonal.com. This year’s edition of Malmö’s Intonal marks the festival’s tenth anniversary. From its early days as a collaboration with Berlin’s CTM and Krakow’s famed Unsound festival, Intonal has grown into a thing completely of its own. Rather than trying to copy the successful but heavily international scene-driven formulas of other European festivals, it focused on ...

Interview by Ivna Franić. Photo by Malwa Grabowska. Italian percussionist Irene Bianco’s debut album Kronblade, released in October 2024 via Valentina Magaletti and Fanny Chiarello’s wxmen-focused label Permanent Draft, garnered attention for its imaginative and subtly genre-bending approach to percussion. A collection of electro-acoustic compositions centered around percussion with added electronics and field recordings, Kronblade captivates with its idiosyncratic explorations ...

Intonal Festival, 26th–30th of April, Malmö. Review by Ivna Franic, Photos by Camilla Rehnstrand Malmö’s Intonal Festival has made it a part of its image to present lineups that don’t necessarily fit the usual European festival mold. At first glance, the festival’s 2023 program gave the impression that the curators were either extremely daring or knew their audience ...