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

»Music for me is something that’s constantly playing in my head. I can’t switch off that part of my brain where new melodies and rhythms emerge and take shape – hardly even when I’m asleep. For that reason, I’m not really a big music consumer. One exception is live concerts and music festivals, where I love seeking out music I don’t already know and letting myself be surprised – most recently the intriguing band Nebulah, emerging from the Esbjerg Academy of Music. At home, it’s our 19-year-old daughter who controls the playlist. She sings backing vocals on my album and has introduced me to many artists over the past years. Through her, it’s also been great to rediscover classic artists like CV Jørgensen, Stevie Wonder, and Joni Mitchell. Very inspiring.«

LOH is a Danish songwriter and pianist. The piano has been part of his life since childhood, but until recently it was overshadowed by a career in the TV industry, where he worked as a documentary producer, creating hundreds of programs for Danish television. His debut album Logger Ud, released in March 2026, features Danish-language folk-pop songs with a touch of Nordic jazz.

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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.

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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.