in brief
09.02.2022

Trentemøllers tryllestøv

Trentemøller: »Memoriam«

Den danske Godfather af moderne elektronisk musik er ude med et formidabelt album – alt er skrevet og produceret af ham selv og partneren Lisbet Fritze, som optræder med sin angeliske og uimodståelige vokal. Ligesom Buster Oregon Mortensen (Busters Verden, red.) kan Trentemøller noget andre ikke kan, han har nemlig lært at trylle og med magiske formularer og tryllestøv har han skabt 14 skarptslebne skæringer. 

Trentemøller mikser atter bastunge beats med svævende lethed og leger med grænserne for, hvordan han med uortodokse midler både kan skabe genklang hos et bredere publikum og samtidig dupere musiknørder verden over. Lytteren kommer med på indre rejser gennem alt fra »Glow«, der inviterer til clubbing med Autecre, »No More Kissing in the Rain«, som er en Trente-elektronisk fortolkning af indiepop a la Raveonettes samt en goth-industrial portal til den legendariske film Spawn: Nummeret »Dead or Alive«. Twin Peaks-mysticisme skinner igennem på »In the Gloaming«, imens man med »Drifting Star« drømmer sig væk i evige solnedgange. 

Memoriams eklektiske tidløshed gør, at den på ingen måder er trendy men derimod langtidsholdbar og ville fungere forrygende som soundtrack til en film, TV-serie eller spil. Der er noget til Generation X, hipsterne, Jomfru Ane Gade og kosmopolernes natteravne. Uden tvivl en udgivelse, som vil vinde indpas i mangen en vinylsamling, være baggrundstæppe på tjekkede kaffebarer og gøre sit indtog på mixerpulte i underjordiske natklubber.

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»Music for me is my hobby, my job, my outlet, my mood, an endless source of discovering new music and new, old music, some of the best and can be some of the worst. And I love it!« 

Track72 aka Tue Track aka Anders Lundby Brixen. Producer, DJ, rapper and more. Known for his role in the trio Malk De Koijn, which since the mid-1990s has created a personal universe in Danish hip-hop. Has performed in Ponyblod, Xtra Naan, Track Abdullah Rock, Booty Cologne and others.

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On Wednesday, 5 August 2026, it happened again: a chord in John Cage’s Organ2/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) changed after two and a half years. Classic FM reports.

The work was written by the American avant-garde composer John Cage in the mid-1980s. The score consists of eight pages of music, and, as the title suggests, the instruction is to play it »as slow as possible.«

»What music is to me? Where have the great feelings gone?«.

Gellért Szabó is a composer, conductor and performer based in Leipzig, Germany. His work combines contemporary composition with influences from free improvisation, noise and the expressive richness of the late nineteenth century. He is the founder and artistic director of the 23-piece Ideal Orchestra, an ensemble dedicated to large-scale experimental music of sweeping emotional intensity. Alongside this work, Szabó performs internationally with his solo project Radical Radio Show, exploring symphonic textures and immersive sound worlds through a single electric guitar and live electronics. His music is driven by a search for intensity, vulnerability and uncompromising emotional expression.

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© Christoffer Askman

From the Culture Yard in Helsingør, ships glide past Kronborg Castle through the narrow waters of the Øresund – a reminder of the trade routes that, for centuries, have carried goods, people and power between the Nordic region and the wider world. It is an apt point of departure for the Passage Festival, and for Marie Dahl's vocal work Silk. Sugar. Sand, which explores the intertwined histories of three materials.

Silk. Sugar. Sand is a vocal performance in three acts tracing the historical journeys of these materials through colonialism, the global economy and geopolitics. Five singers from Ars Nova Copenhagen perform within a minimalist scenography consisting almost entirely of coloured light and three sets of costumes that transform throughout the performance: first silk dresses, then crinoline-like structures evoking sugar loaves, and finally grey stone-like forms suggesting accumulations of sand.

The work's central device is to translate the physical properties of these materials into vocal expression. At one moment, the elasticity of silk becomes soft, flowing polyphony; at the next, a cocoon-like electronic crackle. Sugar's crystalline structure is rendered as sharp vocal attacks – brief, whip-like cracks – as well as sweet, intimate whispers, while sand creaks and rustles, resonating with a libretto about economy and domination, violence and desire.

The performance has no conventional narrative, and the five singers portray no distinct characters, moving somewhat stiffly across the stage, as performers often do when their primary focus is on the voice. Comparisons with Hotel Pro Forma's Flammenwerfer are difficult to avoid. There, the production's rigorous aesthetic was counterbalanced by C.F. Hill's wildly expressive visual universe and Blixa Bargeld's deeply vulnerable stage presence. Those qualities are missing from Marie Dahl's carefully controlled staging, which could have benefited from more of the sensitivity and chaos that also form part of Kirsten Dehlholm's artistic legacy.

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»To us, music is a primal, elemental force that allows us to shed our inhibitions.«

Leizure is a Copenhagen-based quintet operating at the intersection of post-punk, no wave, and experimental rock. The band’s sound is characterized by atonal vocals, piercing saxophone, hypnotic guitar riffs, and a rhythmic foundation that oscillates between tight precision and raw intensity. 

The band’s upcoming album, The Guillotine, explores themes such as societal decay, upheaval, and the challenging of established structures – all conveyed through a direct and high-energy musical style.