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All Too Human: »Because You’re Worth It«

Peter Bruun. © Andreas Omvik

Sune Anderberg. © Alexander Banck-Petersen

Jeg ville så gerne leve i en verden, hvor det her album havde vundet alle jazzpriserne i år. Hvis det er rigtigt, at vi befinder os i en tid præget af opløsning, så viser Peter Bruuns opstandsende og halvstemte kompositioner, at opløsning kan være en ret underfuld bevægelse.

Jazzmodernistiske og fusionshippe temaer uden sikre tonale ankre hænger som en lang, flagrende rød tråd i værkerne, hvor guirlander af syntetiske lyde og akustisk-cool blæserstemmer glider collagelet ind og ud af hinanden. Jeg tror, jeg bliver lidt ør, lidt opstemt, lidt melankolsk på kryds og tværs af pladen.

Allerbedst er det selvfølgelig de gange, hvor temaerne løber ind i så heftig krydsild fra resten af den udvidede kvartet, at coolnessen splintrer og ormehullerne åbner sig. Det er især i begyndelsen af albummet – »All Too Disko« og »The If Machine« er jo ét langt wow – for senere tager værkerne en mere spaced-out drejning. Men jeg vil med derud, jeg vil også opløses.

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13.06.2023

My name is Allan Gravgaard Madsen – would you like to see my playlist?

»In his music, composer Allan Gravgaard Madsen tries to create a better version of himself.«

Allan Gravgaard Madsen is a Danish composer based in Copenhagen. His most recent works include Träume nicht and Nachtmusik. He tries to create a better version of himself in his music – where his personality tends to be restless, chatty and has an active inner life, his music is controlled, simple and merciless in its expression. He is the recipient of the Carl Nielsen & Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Hæderspris 2022.

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23.01.2022

Finnish Space Travel

Tomutonttu: »Hoshi«

Vauva, 02.12

Kristoffer Møllegaard

The Finnish multimedia artist Jan Anderzén has, with the album Hoshi, released under the solo moniker Tomutonttu, created a true little star. Not only because »hoshi« literally means »star« in Japanese, but above all due to the music itself. There is something cosmic, yet infinitely minute, about the sonic worlds Anderzén conjures—like a galaxy reflected in a puddle, or a space journey in a rocket carved from a hollow tree trunk. Synths emit busy, warm blips and bloops, while ultra-short vocal and instrumental samples create a recognizable blur. At once artificial and organic – soft, rounded, jagged, crackling.

Anderzén approaches sound with a playfulness I simply adore. His music is strange in an incredibly comforting way. It places me in a kind of colorful, trance-like state, only interrupted when, several times over the course of the album, I find myself smiling in delight at a particularly great sound. The synths on »Katse osuu sähköön!« The choral samples on »Kesä oli äkkiä ohi!« Milo Linnovaara’s flute on »Malta lausua ‘AH’!« And many more. Hoshi is an album packed with microscopic moments that together form a frayed, exploding, radiant, idiosyncratic whole—a stellar moment of just under 38 minutes.