Abekejser was founded in 2015 in the danish city of Aarhus, the current hotbed of the Scandinavian music scene. The five young musicians with a background in Jazz and World-Music knew each other through their memberships in several other formations when they finally decided to combine their individual ideas through a common musical vision. From the start it was obvious that the sound of their new musical venture needed to be „here and now“ as much as channeling the personal preferences of each band member. The musical approach was deliberately electronic from the get go in terms of Instrumentation as well as production – so they created an urban universe between jazz, beats and electronica that shares some musical ground with bands like Snarky Puppy, Jaga Jazzist or piano-visionary Robert Glasper, but follows ist very own rules by doing so!