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Goosebumps In the Courtroom: When Music Turns Into a Power Play
»Den Stærkes Ret« is one of the most intense musical experiences I have had in years.
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In a Warm Bed of Darkness
At Alice, Gintė Preisaitė and Drew McDowall showed how electronic music can be both unsettling and enveloping.
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Injured Swan In a Flooded World
»The dancers in 'We Continue…' move between seaweed, drones and subtle beats, exploring how humanity goes on – even when nature revolts.«
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Songs That Would Rather Be Lieder
Imagine if the texts had been carried by actual verses, hooks, and choruses – elements that might have turned them into true earworms.
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Treen In Free Fall – And In Common Flow
On their second release »Kaikō«, Treen show how free improvisation can balance between independence and shared direction – carried by trust, gravity, and an organic flow.
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Steel Forks and Silken Script
»George Benjamin’s modern classic unfolds on the Old Stage as both a brutal love story and a musical paradox, where violent noise meets transparent silence.«
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The Symphonic Statement of the Year
The music is brutal, relentless. But could it have been more: more in colour, beyond the duel?
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Voices From a Bygone Era
»Sofie Birch and Antonina Nowacka create a sensuous acoustic space where the dream of another time is allowed to emerge.«
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Fata Morgana Between Two Continents
The idea is strong, simple, and well executed. Like the sonic version of a cartoon mirage shimmering falsely in the sharp Californian sunlight.
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When Machines Dream: The Electronic Poetry of Oh No Noh
Like a warped, crumpled tape, melodies bubble to the surface, and the offbeat rhythms repeat with the halting tempo of a scratched LP.
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Not the Royal Rock Star We Might Have Wished For
In the end, it sounds like a march that has forgotten who it was written for.
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The Electronic Altar
Three artists shattered the table’s constraints and gave technology a body.