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19.04.2024

Engle og dæmoner spiller orgel

Calum Builder: »Renewal Manifestation«

På australskfødte Calum Builders nye album, Renewal Manifestation, er det orgelet, der indtager hovedrollen. Nærmere bestemt Mariendal Kirkes orgel, der til denne lejlighed spilles af Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen. I forhold til dette imposante instrument føles både Builders egen altsaxofon samt CRUSH String Collectives Maria Jagds, Pauline Hogstrands og Oda Dyrnes’ violin, bratsch og cello, uendeligt små.

Åbneren »Breaths and Waves, Wheels within Wheels« udstiller denne diskrepans i størrelsesforhold på spændende vis. Orgelet brager som en kæmpes åndedræt, mens saxofonen og strengene hugger og stikker i en søgende, kakofonisk free jazz’et lydversion af kampen mellem David og Goliat. Dramatisk og umådeligt engagerende. Ligeledes overvældende på den gode måde er »Birth/Rebirth/Birth/Rebirth/Birth/Rebirth/Birth«, der skifter kampens hede ud med, hvad der lyder som et møde med en engel, sådan som de faktisk tager sig ud i Bibelen – majestætisk, smukt og forfærdeligt i al sin himmelske uforståelighed. Også her underkaster blæser og strygere sig orgelets stoiske ro, indtil sidstnævnte til sidst svinder ind og bliver til en næsten ynkelig piben. 

Albummet slutter med »Where You Go, I Go«, et nummer så smukt som det højtidelige løfte, titlen refererer til. Med melankolske orgelflader og en svævende saxofonsolo understreger den relative simplicitet blot den foregående halve times heftighed. Renewal Manifestation er en intens og blændende triumf for Builder som komponist.

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»To me, music is love. I love how music allows you to skip the small talk and connect directly with people’s innermost selves. It is an extraordinary and moving way to meet one another.«

Fenja wrote her first song at the age of twelve – about a polar bear dying due to climate change – and themes of existentialism, nature, and her own sensitive nature came to define the lyrics and sound she has since developed. She released her debut album, Flugtdyr, in 2021, and in February 2026, she released the album Menneskedyr.

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Danish composer Sofus Forsberg has died at the age of 56. With his distinctive blend of melodic sensibility, electronic processing and rhythmic precision, he created a musical world that moved effortlessly between IDM, pop and the avant-garde.

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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.