Blæst over egoet

Maraton: »Maraton«

Maraton: »Maraton«. © Barefoot Records

Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek. © Kåre Viemose

De har improviseret op til ni timer i træk. For at udmattelsen skulle slette egoet, for at transcendere. Simpelthen. Ekstraktet af bandet Maratons kollektive udforskninger af alverdens beats og freejazzet blæs høres på debutalbummet, hvor et bølgende Rhodes-klaver drømmer dybt under Maria Dybbroes totalt vågne sax.

På den fine, cinematiske tur – CD’en er pakket i en DVD-æske med palmetræer (eller er det bregner?) på coveret – deltager Jonathan Ludvigsen fra Athletic Progression, og numre som »Den japanske have« har farve af sådanne fritænkende og lidt spacede jazzerier.

»Indianerdoku« er helt i friland med trommerne i centrum. Andetsteds lyder ambience, percussivt tingeltangel og en synthesizer, der minder om noget fra 80’er-filmen Le grand bleu.

Musikken er spraglet – og rummer måske for mange forskellige udtryk til én CD. Men kunst behøver ikke være instant, og måske er det meningen, at lytteren (også) skal svede igennem sammen med Maraton. Undertegnede kunstudsultede ego er helt med. Kunstmuseet Aros siger, kunst er mental fitness. Og muligvis også transcendens.

playlist

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.

in briefrelease

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.