Passive/Aggressive

Denmark’s Organ Dilemma – Abundant Instruments, Decreasing Organists

Feature July 29 2024

From Jesuskirken. Photo: Maite Cintron By Maite Cintron Around Denmark you can find an awful lot of churches, remnants of a once much more religious past. As religion for many has lost its initial significance within Danish society, and more so in Copenhagen, many of these buildings have evolved and come to have new meanings within the city. For example, you can now ...

Læs resten

Organ Sound Art Festival – adventurous organs in contemporary music

Blog January 10 2024

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 ...

Læs resten

Mens vi venter på Apokalypsen – Refleksioner over musikkens år i 2022

Blog January 16 2023

Af Andreas Korsgaard Rasmussen Jeg er ikke typen, der bogfører min lytning. Alligevel ved jeg, at 2022 i overvældende grad har været præget af jamaicansk musik fra rundt regnet 1970-1980, eller mere præcist: reggae. The Abyssinnians, Burning Spear, Lee Scratch Perry, The Congos, Culture, Yabby You, Wailing Souls, Hugh Mundell, Count Ossie, King Tubby, Scientist, Horace Andy, Ras Michael – og så videre. Reggaens facisnationskraft lader til at ...

Læs resten