TUNGEMÅL (meaning Idiom or tongue) is concerned with the electrified guitar as a voice in contemporary chamber- musical contexts. With this comprehensive project Solborg wishes to elaborate the intimate listening experience, and develop methods and tools for the creative work at hand. An extensive artistic study and qualifying awareness of the modern guitar in interplay with acoustic instruments, and the musical spaces they inhabit.

How do we talk - alone and with others? ...can the listener get closer to the creative artist?

For this summers jazzfestivals in DK Solborg has invited two unique Japanese voices to join the conversation: Drummer Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, a leading figure in Japanese jazz and improvised music for 30 years, blends jazz, Japanese folklore, post-rock, and improv, (Otomo Yoshihide, Masabumi Kikuchi, Zorn, Ground Zero) and contemporary vibraphonist/percussionist Kumiko Takara (MoGoToYoYo, Nilssen-Love a.o.).

Over three ...

TUNGEMÅL (meaning Idiom or tongue) is concerned with the electrified guitar as a voice in contemporary chamber- musical contexts. With this comprehensive project Solborg wishes to elaborate the intimate listening experience, and develop methods and tools for the creative work at hand. An extensive artistic study and qualifying awareness of the modern guitar in interplay with acoustic instruments, and the musical spaces they inhabit.

How do we talk - alone and with others? ...can the listener get closer to the creative artist?

For this summers jazzfestivals in DK Solborg has invited two unique Japanese voices to join the conversation: Drummer Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, a leading figure in Japanese jazz and improvised music for 30 years, blends jazz, Japanese folklore, post-rock, and improv, (Otomo Yoshihide, Masabumi Kikuchi, Zorn, Ground Zero) and contemporary vibraphonist/percussionist Kumiko Takara (MoGoToYoYo, Nilssen-Love a.o.).

Over three days you can witness this Scandinavian/Japanese summit with various ILK artists a.o.

This evening the following musicians will be on stage:

Susana Santos Silva (PT) - trumpet
Kasper Tranberg (DK) - trumpet
Julie Kjær (DK) - alto saxophone
Francesco Bigoni (ITA) - Reeds

Kumiko Takara (JP) - vibrafon, percussion
Mark Solborg (DK) - guitar
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki (JP) - trommer, percussion


On Solborgs recent BABEL project:

❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎ “ Danish masterguitarist reminds us that all hope is not lost..”
– David Dyreborg, Politiken (DK)

” I have been unable to stop listening to BABEL. It has its hooks in me deep.”
– Dave Sumner, Bandcamp. Best Jazz on Bandcamp, November 2023

★★★★★ “Masterpiece. Musically awesome, visually over the top…"
– Ivan Rod, Gaffa (DK).


Mark Solborg TUNGEMÅL 2024 feat. Yoshigaki & Takara is a part of JazzDanmarks Asia Project.
Support: Danish Arts Foundation, Wilhelm Hansen Foundation, Danish Conductors Association, a.o....

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