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06.07.2024

Sådan holder man hof på Roskilde 

Roskilde Festival: Valentina Magaletti
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Valentina Magaletti havde fyldt eksperimentalscenen Platform op med trommer. Og så blev heavy weather vekslet til heavy og meget muskuløs drumming. Dog også pyntet med delikate elektroniske soundscapes og intelligent groove, der efterlignede maskiners repetitive kræfter. Det gav både mening, at de aurale kollisioner på hendes album A Queer Anthology of Drums er blevet kaldt vejvisere til et splintret paradis, og at Magaletti har udtalt sig om »karnevalistisk improvisation«, hvor høj- og lavkultur, drama og ironi taler sammen. 

På Roskildes mest karnevalistiske scene er der intet hierarki. Sambafolk, undergrundsdansere og cellister holder hof og opfrisker vores trætte festivalører, når vi mindst venter det og mest fortjener det. Kalder til trommefest, så den planlagte popkoncert må vente. 

Nok er italiensk-engelske Magaletti klassisk uddannet percussionist, men jo også undergrund og spiller med Thurston Moore. Og folk var absolut vågne under hendes hypnosetunge percussionkunst, hvor groovet langsomt og på umærkelig vis sivede ind i kroppene og blev der. Magaletti viste, at ligesom mennesker kan have et stemmeregister, kan trommer have personlighed. Jeg gentager: Det var stor percussionkunst i fluorescerende og eksplosive farver. Karneval lige ved siden af Orange.

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»Music has been a healing balm for me.«

John William Grant is an American singer, musician, and songwriter holding both American and Icelandic citizenship. He first came to prominence as a co-founder, lead vocalist, pianist, and primary songwriter of the alternative rock band The Czars. After releasing six albums between 1994 and 2006, the band disbanded, and Grant withdrew from music for four years before embarking on a solo career.

He returned in April 2010 with a critically acclaimed debut album recorded in collaboration with Midlake. Queen of Denmark was named Album of the Year 2010 by Mojo magazine and was also selected as one of the ten best albums of 2010 by The Guardian’s music critics and writers.

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»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«
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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.