On day 2 of the Barefoot Label Fest you can look forward to a unique audiovisual experience when Køs and the Norwegian light-artist Torfinn Lysne guest Xenon on the 4th floor of HUSET.

Three musical siblings from the Copenhagen underground scene form Køs and create music with a love for expressivity, pathos, fragility, and rawness. Playing as a group since 2014 in an electro-acoustic universe, they draw on backgrounds in free improvisation, jazz and hip hop, and mix this with inspirations from classical music, ambient music and noise.

Sometimes they sound like a pop-hit, sometimes they sound like a Køs presents a musical universe with long stretched developments, beautiful melodies and repetitive rhythmical structures, broad soundscapes and big dynamic changes. The musical journey is what thrills – and presence, attentiveness and statements are what matter.

In March 2020 they released their first full-length vinyl ‘An Uncaught Bird�...

On day 2 of the Barefoot Label Fest you can look forward to a unique audiovisual experience when Køs and the Norwegian light-artist Torfinn Lysne guest Xenon on the 4th floor of HUSET.

Three musical siblings from the Copenhagen underground scene form Køs and create music with a love for expressivity, pathos, fragility, and rawness. Playing as a group since 2014 in an electro-acoustic universe, they draw on backgrounds in free improvisation, jazz and hip hop, and mix this with inspirations from classical music, ambient music and noise.

Sometimes they sound like a pop-hit, sometimes they sound like a Køs presents a musical universe with long stretched developments, beautiful melodies and repetitive rhythmical structures, broad soundscapes and big dynamic changes. The musical journey is what thrills – and presence, attentiveness and statements are what matter.

In March 2020 they released their first full-length vinyl ‘An Uncaught Bird’ on the label Forlaget Kornmod, who received a lot of positive attention, and was nominated for Danish Music Awards. In 2022 they released their second album ‘Ud af en mund’ in collaboration with awarded poet Pia Tafdrup’


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BAREFOOT RECORD LABEL FEST
Look forward to get inspired, touched, surprised and challenged, when the artist-collective Barefoot Records for the 13th year in a row invites to a small exclusive festival inside the Copenhagen Jazz Festival the 30th of June - 2nd of July.

The programme consists of some of the most interesting artists from the European scene for improvised music, with international guests, award-winning groups, new meetings and compositional experiments.
For the first time the festival will be hosted in Denmark’s first culture house Huset i Magstræde placed in the heart of Copenhagen, which is the perfect frame to open up your ears with a beer in your hand. Most of the concerts will take place at Xenon on the 4th floor of Huset and they will be accompanied by visual experiments. Just outside in the foyer you will sit just next to the musicians absorbing the acoustic sounds.

Barefoot Records was founded in 2006 and has been called “one of the most interesting labels in Danish jazz” by All About Jazz. The collective consists of 8 musicians from Denmark, Poland, Ireland, Norway and Sweden, which have together released 70 albums so far.

“Barefoot Records have long been a label that celebrates the boundless wonders of jazz. Continually championing artists and encouraging them to step outside of the box in a bid to provide fascinating new perspectives on what constitutes jazz in the 21st century.” - Blue In Green Radio 2021.

PROGRAMME
June 30th
20.00 Henrik Olsson – Hand of Benediction
21.15 Thou Sonic Friend
22.30 Tactical Maybe

July 1st
20.00 Håkon Berre – Mirror Matter
21.15 Køs & Torfinn Lysne
22.30 Grafiske Mutationer

July 2nd
20.00 Meinild/Anderskov/Tom
21.15 STAMP
22.30 Barefoot Records All Star Band

Tickets sold in the door
100 dkkr 1 concert
200 dkkr 3 concerts/all day-ticket
300 dkkr Partout
50% off for studens
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