Aäron Koch has never had much of a soft spot for duets. 'Echoes', it turns out, had other ideas.
The song has been following him around for years. An early demo never quite settled into place, and when Koch was working on his debut album 'For Once', he dismantled the original arrangement and rebuilt it as 'Longing'. It took returning to that first recording years later for another possibility to... Read more
Four songs from ‘The House’, performed in a house. With ‘The Gardeners’, Elis Floreen shares the final video in her living room session series, following ‘Carver’, ‘Panther’ and ‘Sleepless Dream’.
Recorded in December 2023 in the living room of James De Graef, aka Loverman, the sessions brought together musicians including Susobrino, Frederik Daelemans (Tamino) and Siebe Chau (Ão). All four songs... Read more
Ottla returns to its roots and dives into the endlessly fascinating world of jazz giant Thelonious Monk. 'Bye-Ya' offers a first glimpse of the forthcoming album on which the band pays tribute to Monk by reimagining his celebrated compositions. Sometimes faithfully, sometimes taking them somewhere else entirely. They approach his music with the stylistic freedom, intuitive interplay and childlike... Read more
With ‘Tantalus’, Emma Hessels sings in her mother tongue for the first time. The song has been part of her live set for quite a while, but is now finally getting a proper release. What started as a passage in her diary gradually grew into a song about something that stubbornly refuses to be grasped.
Its title draws on Tantalus, the figure from Greek mythology condemned to forever reach for... Read more
For a while, there was a house on the outskirts of Copenhagen.
Hidden behind overgrown vines and filled with decades of forgotten objects, artworks and stories, it served as a temporary refuge for artists, dreamers and people caught between chapters of their lives. Since the 1980s, generations of collectives had passed through its rooms, each leaving traces of themselves behind. What emerged over... Read more
