30.06.2014

Trashzz mere end jazz

Snart lyder startskuddet for Copenhagen jazz festival, 2014. For slet ikke at tale om the smelly side of Cph jazzfestival 2014! Her er nogle interessante alternativer til jazzmusikken:

Den 7. og 8. juli inviterer Copenhagen Trashzzfestival for 5. gang indenfor til en “ikke officiel del af Copenhagen Jazzfestival” på Lygten. De lover en fremragende blanding af anerkendte kunstnere og repræsentanter fra den rå upoleret danske minimal-genre undergrund. Her kan man bl.a. høre Henrik Pultz Melbye (“betagende kaskader af saxofon”), Boda Boda duo (“10 års kunst-metal fra en hårdslående duo”), Lars Bech Pilgaard (“Gådefulde, etniske og soniske udforskninger af lyd på den elektriske guitar”). Der er flere adjektiver, hvor de kommer fra på Trashzzfestival

Den 8. juli møder kunstmusik jazz i improvisationsduoen Søren Kjærgaard & Simon Steen-Andersen. De performer med joystick, video projektion og præpareret klaver. Koncerten er i Skuepilhusets Foyeer. Læs mere.

Mayhems jazzfest står på den 11. og 12. juli. Her udfolder saxofonisten TS Høegs en horn solo, horn duo & horn kvartet, desuden kan man opleve KP &TTM, Christian Stadsgaard, Jooklo duo  A.K.O.D.E , Tigers Mind og Henrik Rylander – og der er mere. Læs om Mayhems jazzfest.

Pladeselskabet ILK præsenterer en længere række af prominente jazzmusikere og eksperimenterende kunstnere. På jazzfestivalen kan man roligt gå efter deres koncerter. En oversigt ses her.

Tjek også jazzfestivalprogrammet ud på Literaturhaus og Barefoot Records

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.