playlist30.10.2025
My name is Steen Andersen – would you like to see my playlist?
Music, to me, is the lifeline to the world that more than anything else creates emotional resonance and fills my head with confetti of thought.
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reportage29.10.2025
Nothing Will Be Livestreamed – Be Present in the Green
On the Danish island of Samsø, humans, sheep, and birds listen together to the music of nature – a journey into the ecology of sound.
in brief29.10.2025
Islands Of Sound Rising From the Sea
Veroníque Vaka turns monumental geological forces into beguiling music.
in brief29.10.2025
What Do the Mad Want With an Opera House?
OperaHole nevertheless looks like a strong contender to carry on our tradition of playful underground opera.
review24.10.2025
That’s Why I Keep Returning To Unsound
Unsound in Kraków is still more than a festival – it’s an echo of our own search for connection in the age of noise.
in brief24.10.2025
JASSS Tears the Cellophane Off Electronic Music
»Eager Buyers« is captivating – even for listeners who don’t usually venture into the electronic sphere.
playlist23.10.2025
My name is C.Y. Frostholm – would you like to see my playlist?
Music, to me, is true luxury and has always been an opening into a language without constricting categories, with room for both intimacy and impact.
in brief18.10.2025
One Tone, Eight Breaths, and the Sound of Waiting
At Betty Nansen Theatre, Louise Alenius and Elisa Kragerup turn Selma Lagerlöf’s tragic tale into a haunting meditation on sound, silence and longing.
in brief16.10.2025
A Microphone In the Nervous System
On »BODY« IKI turns the voice inside out and lets technology listen beneath the skin – to the point where body, circuit, and circulation become one.
playlist10.10.2025
Miy name is Bjarke Niemann – would you like to see my playlist?
»Music is everything that can only be described far more poorly with words.«
review07.10.2025
Anything Can Become Music – Even a Bunch Of Fake Frogs
At the Musica festival in Strasbourg, everything from children’s concerts to organ storms and performative string quartets turned into a playful exploration of sound, body, and community.
playlist06.10.2025
My name is Motis Necrojam – would you like to see my playlist?
»Music is the pursuit of original failure...«
playlist06.10.2025
Mit navn er Katrine Muff – vil du se min playliste?
»Music, to me, is the key to – and an extension of – my vocabulary.«
in brief04.10.2025
Soap Horse Kept a Tight Rein – Maybe Too Tight
»Soap Horse displayed remarkable control and a firm grasp of both their sonic universe and their audience. Perhaps all that’s left is to prove they dare to loosen their grip.«
review03.10.2025
Microtones In the Coal Mines
Ostrava Days transformed the old mining town into a laboratory of sound, where contemporary music pressed its way out between dust, drones, and Dadaist madness.<br />
in brief02.10.2025
A One-Way Ticket To Illiyeen, Please!
Mesayer’s black-clad universe and Thicket’s bursts of improvised energy merged seamlessly into a community one longed to be part of.
in brief29.09.2025
Gąsiorek Never Looks Back
Polish-born Szymon Gąsiorek has done it again – created a cornucopia of an album that both overwhelms and delights.
in brief29.09.2025
Composition for Stone Walls
Bjarke Mogensen makes the Cisterns breathe and thunder in a meditative underground sound space.
in brief29.09.2025
Kristine Tjøgersen Crafts Unreasonably Beautiful Eco-Poetry
Natural sounds, imitations of nature, harmonies, and entire sequences are simply building blocks in her personal experimental lab.
in brief29.09.2025
When the Experiment Becomes Tragically Beautiful
Tungemål dares to experiment without drowning itself out.
in brief29.09.2025
The Ever-Changing Waters Of the Mind
It certainly doesn’t break any ambient conventions – but it’s a pleasure to be swept away nonetheless.
in brief29.09.2025
Postcard From the Borderlands of Sound
»A rare and unique symbiosis arises between voice and double bass – a connection so special that one rarely hears anything quite like it.«
in brief29.09.2025
Absurd Beauty in the Theatre of Noise
It’s impressive how effectively it all works, even as the expression remains so relentless and challenging.
in brief29.09.2025
Addictive Elegance
It’s a wonderfully weird effect that, just as weirdly, the score seems to deliver with a straight face – just one more satisfying surprise among many others on this excellent record.
in brief29.09.2025
High to Fly, Ice-Cold to Crash
»The shockwave transforms into mischievous, squelchy synth footsteps as desperation and hallucinations grow.«