Horse Orchestra is a very special band on the modern Nordic jazz scene. Comprised of musicians from Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark, the septet is a unique mix of young instrumentalists who know their musical history while succeeding in opening up jazz music to a broader audience.

1920s New Orleans meets 1960s avant-garde jazz with or without dizzying beats – and detours to everything from rock to renaissance music – and creates an original, humorous, post-postmodernist style that goes far beyond jazz. With Horse Orchestra, you witness a high-energy, fun-loving party, so infectious that you happily allow yourself to be enveloped in the often rather extreme musical experiments.

Horse Orchestra's latest album, The Milkman Cometh (2021), won two prizes at the Danish Music Awards with the qualification: The band's many personalities, with several compositional contributors, are also the band's great strength - and the reason for their multifaceted styl...

Horse Orchestra is a very special band on the modern Nordic jazz scene. Comprised of musicians from Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark, the septet is a unique mix of young instrumentalists who know their musical history while succeeding in opening up jazz music to a broader audience.

1920s New Orleans meets 1960s avant-garde jazz with or without dizzying beats – and detours to everything from rock to renaissance music – and creates an original, humorous, post-postmodernist style that goes far beyond jazz. With Horse Orchestra, you witness a high-energy, fun-loving party, so infectious that you happily allow yourself to be enveloped in the often rather extreme musical experiments.

Horse Orchestra's latest album, The Milkman Cometh (2021), won two prizes at the Danish Music Awards with the qualification: The band's many personalities, with several compositional contributors, are also the band's great strength - and the reason for their multifaceted style of expression. With their superior musicianship and understated humor, the band is ready to conquer the world.

"[...] a party band whose performances almost negate Scandinavians’ reputation for humourlessness."
- jazzword.com...

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