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Sound Crusts in Slow Motion
At Alice, Abul Mogard let tones open their inner life through slowly shifting drone passages
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Labour of Birth
The painful struggle of birth, despite the choir’s insistent chanting, never truly becomes mine
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From Tehran to Husqvarna
Both performances revolved around Iranian heritage. Not a heritage that necessarily needs to be understood, but one that appears as a mosaic of contradictions
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Serious Creeps
Afstanden mellem insekterne og en selv gik i opløsning i et dirrende drømmebillede. Så var det pludselig lige meget, om der er liv på Mars
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Indigo over Mahler
The composition was created in 2022 – before the current war in Gaza – but on this evening, with her immense voice and intense presence, she adds yet another verse to the endless song
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Ash in the Ear
At Phono, Laugesen sang – yes, sang – the prose of life across a wall of sound. His voice cut in between the rumbling bass and the grit of the snare drum
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Echoes from the Olive Trees
It is a testament to grief as lived experience, and as an archival bulwark, »Karakoz« thus takes part in the struggle for a free Palestine.
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Small Snowflakes in a Brutal Snowstorm
In a short space of time, »Miniatures« has become a favored sonic space for this reviewer when there is a need to retreat into the chambers of the mind
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Poetic Nocturnal Rummaging
Bent Sørensen’s »12 Nocturnes« unfold the night’s intimate piano poetry, while the piano concerto breaks the spell.
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When the Trumpet Says Farewell – Mikkelborg’s Most Beautiful Moment
»Light« is the perfect distillation of Mikkelborg’s musical life – a cavalcade of the qualities that have always defined him as a musician: light, colour, life, mysticism, love.
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The Excess of Attention
»Crooked, meandering passages and bubbling harmonies that only just brushed against a peculiar sense of tempo.«
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All Life Has the Right to Live
»Kirstine Fogh Vindelev’s discreet soundscape for the power performance Animal provides much-needed breathing room in Alexandra Moltke Johansen’s dense text.«