11.01.2016

Ny musikbiennale offentligør program

NJORD New Nordic Music Biennale offentliggør hele programmet for årets festival, som bl.a. byder på hele seks uropførelser og et stærkt blik på ny, finsk musik.

Den 28. januar slår den nye festival dørene op for første gang, og det fulde program er netop blevet offentliggjort. Festivalens første udgave har en huskomponist, som hedder Kaija Saariaho og kommer fra Finland. Det samme gør stjerneensemblet Avanti!, der spiller to koncerter i løbet af festivalens fem dage – heriblandt Saariahos “La Passion de Simone”, som udgør åbningskoncerten. Senere samme aften kan man opleve premieren på “Concordia”, som Saariaho har skrevet specifikt til sin datter, violinisten Aliisa Neige Barrière, samt den danske cellist Jakob Kullberg.

Festivalen byder derudover på værker af bl.a. finske Niilo Tarnanen, islandske Anna Thorvaldsdottir samt danske Hans Peter Stubbe Teglbjærg og Niels Rosing-Schow. På scenen kan man i løbet af festivalen bl.a. opleve det franske ensemble La Chambre aux échos samt fløjtespilleren Hélène Navasse, akkordeonisten Bjarke Mogensen og cellisten Josefine Opsahl, mens afslutningskoncerten bliver et møde mellem de to vokalensembler Ars Nova Copenhagen og Theatre of Voices.

Tid: 28. januar-1. februar 2016
Sted: Diverse lokationer i København: Dansehallerne, KoncertKirken, Den Sorte Diamant samt Maskinhallen

Se hele programmet på njordbiennale.com, hvor der også findes links til billetsalg.

playlist

11.09.2023

My name is John Grant – would you like to see my playlist?

»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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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.