»And that is how it sounded. Cold. Like the saddest Instagram filter imaginable – with sound.«

Powerful Rhythms and Empowered Voices dominated at the opening night of Heroines of Sound Festival in Berlin.

Sensitive jazz guys? Nope – suddenly Marsalis hurled himself into the seated audience with a somersault – and a scream.

Heaven, hell, love and country – life’s biggest mysteries were studied at the Polish festival Sacrum Profanum. And it ended well for two Danes.

One of Europe’s oldest contemporary music festivals comes to Aarhus. We profile Ung Nordisk Musik, which is as ageless as Madonna and contains Icelandic vulgarities from 1612.

For a festival that prides itself on its all-premieres programming, the 2019 Donaueschinger Musiktage felt more than a little stale.