#4152: New Music from Denmark
Hear new music from Denmark, a small country that is home to a wide range of music with a long history of welcoming musicians from other places. There’s music by Danish-American sax player Sonja LaBianca, Gambian-born Danish-based Dawda Jobarteh, and sound artist Ragnhild May, who splits time between Copenhagen and New York.
Listen to music as an art installation by Ragnhild May, a sound artist who lives in both Copenhagen and New York. Hear a portion of her ambient, atmospheric, “the walls are moving,” a collaboration with Stefan Maier. Also, hear experimental and joyous music by Copenhagen-based Anders Lauge Meldgaard, (formerly known as Frisk Frugt), who wrote this most recent record, At synge verden ind i en ny og mangefoldet tid - "singing the world into a new and manifold time" during his time as composer-in-residence at the old Danish castle Rønnebæksholm on the south of Zealand.
There’s also music for kora by Gambian-born, Danish-based musician and composer, Dawda Jobarteh along with accordion music by composer Martin Lohse for Bjarke Mogensen. Mogensen plays the Mythos Accordion No. 5, often described as the Stradivarius of the accordion. He is also among the very few accordionists in the world who plays a Italian custom-made quarter tonal accordion.
Listen to music by the Copenhagen-based experimental performance and sound collective We Like We. The group combines Katrine Grarup Elbo (violin), Josefine Opsahl (cello), Sara Nigard Rosendal (percussion) and Katinka Fogh Vindelev (voice) – classically trained musicians who explore folk music and pagan-sounding extended techniques. Plus, hear music by Sonja LaBianca for sax and delay, which also makes use of intimate, lonely rooms-spaces and environmental sounds.
Credit where due: many of these discoveries came to us courtesy of Snyk, the national centre for contemporary and experimental music and sound art in Denmark.
-Caryn Havlik
#4152: New Music From Denmark (First aired 9/20/2018)
ARTIST: Sonja LaBianca
WORK: Neighbourhood [1:00]
RECORDING: About Room, Room to Be, Rooms
SOURCE: EGET VÆRELSE EV 08 SLB01
INFO: egetvaerelse.dk | soundcloud.com/getrelse
ARTIST: We Like We
WORK: Endless Harmonies [3:24]
RECORDING: Next to the entire All
SOURCE: welikewe.bandcamp.com
INFO: welikewe.com
ARTIST: Flod
WORK: Joki [6:46]
RECORDING: Kurs
SOURCE/INFO: flod.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Anders Lauge Meldgaard
WORK: A3 [3:38]
RECORDING: At synge verden ind i en ny og mangefoldet tid - "singing the world into a new and manifold time"
SOURCE: ÅR & DAG
INFO: aarogdag.bigcartel.com
ARTIST: Bjarke Mogensen, accordion
WORK: Martin Lohse: Passing I [3:51]
RECORDING: Mobile - Works for Solo Accordion
SOURCE: Gateway Music
INFO: gatewaymusicshop.dk
ARTIST: Sonja LaBianca
WORK: Bells [4:08]
RECORDING: About Room, Room to Be, Rooms
SOURCE: EGET VÆRELSE EV 08 SLB01
INFO: egetvaerelse.dk | soundcloud.com/getrelse
ARTIST: We Like We
WORK: I'm Not for More [3:43]
RECORDING: Next to the entire All
SOURCE: welikewe.bandcamp.com
INFO: welikewe.com
ARTIST: Dawda Jobarteh
WORK: Our Time in Tanjeh [3:00]
RECORDING: Transitional Times
SOURCE: Sterns Music STCD1128
INFO: sternsmusic.com
ARTIST: We like We
WORK: Anticipation [5:29]
RECORDING: a new Age of Sensibility
SOURCE: thebeingmusic.bandcamp.com
INFO: welikewe.com
ARTIST: Sonja LaBianca
WORK: Neighbourhood [6:29]
RECORDING: About Room, Room to Be, Rooms
SOURCE: EGET VÆRELSE EV 08 SLB01
INFO: egetvaerelse.dk | soundcloud.com/getrelse
ARTIST: Ragnhild May/Stefan Maier
WORK: The Walls Are Moving, excerpt [5:34]
RECORDING: soundcloud.com/ragnhildmay
SOURCE: soundcloud.com/ragnhildmay
INFO: ragnhildmay.com
