Twin Peaks og skattesnyd

Emil Friis: »I Skattely«

Emil Friis’ musik til DR-dokumentaren I Skattely fra 2013 er netop blevet genudgivet som enkeltstående album. Friis benytter en sparsom men ekstremt effektiv orkestrering, hvor guitaren, der nogle steder giver associationer til introtemaet fra Twin Peaks, er i partnerskab med en synth.Guitaren kan ofte klare sig med enkle akkordbrydninger over intuitive akkordprogressioner, mens synthen tager sig af de underliggende droner. Musikken er herved alt andet end dominerende og kompleks og resulterer effektivt i en dyster atmosfære. Men der mangler alligevel noget… de billeder, den voiceover, det narrativ, musikken skal skabe stemningen til. Og dette er styrken ved musikken.

Særligt pladens sidste nummer, »Chasing the Man« gav mig et stød. Nummerets intro havde ikke været helt fremmed på et The Weeknd-album, og det drive, der pludselig kommer. skaber en smuk kontrast til resten af Friis’ album. Det er lige før, jeg ikke ønsker, at de nogensinde skal fange ’the man’. Denne jagtmusik er mesterlig! Tror det er første gang, jeg har oplevet, at det at lytte til musikken, har givet mig lyst til at se en dokumentar – jeg ønsker at opleve helheden!

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.