Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2024

For the first time in a decade, ANOHNI presents a concert with the Johnsons on July 12th and 13th at the Concert Hall of DR Koncerthuset during the Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2024. ANOHNI will be joined by a nine piece band including Julia Kent (cello), Maxim Moston (violin), Doug Wieselman (multi-instrumentalist), Leo Abrahams (guitarist) and Jimmy Hogarth (guitarist/producer). Responding to a time of upheaval, ANOHNI issues a challenge: “It’s Time to Feel What's Really Happening.”

Born in the UK and raised in Amsterdam and California, ANOHNI relocated to NYC in her late teens, forming her group The Johnsons in 1998 and establishing a unique path as an artist with a focus on animist and eco-feminist themes. ANOHNI's musical journey has spanned genres - from electronic experimental to avant-classical, dance, and soul. Achieving breakthrough success in 2005 with I Am a Bird Now (2005), she garnered the UK’s Mercury Award. Releases since include The Crying Light (20...

For the first time in a decade, ANOHNI presents a concert with the Johnsons on July 12th and 13th at the Concert Hall of DR Koncerthuset during the Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2024. ANOHNI will be joined by a nine piece band including Julia Kent (cello), Maxim Moston (violin), Doug Wieselman (multi-instrumentalist), Leo Abrahams (guitarist) and Jimmy Hogarth (guitarist/producer). Responding to a time of upheaval, ANOHNI issues a challenge: “It’s Time to Feel What's Really Happening.”

Born in the UK and raised in Amsterdam and California, ANOHNI relocated to NYC in her late teens, forming her group The Johnsons in 1998 and establishing a unique path as an artist with a focus on animist and eco-feminist themes. ANOHNI's musical journey has spanned genres - from electronic experimental to avant-classical, dance, and soul. Achieving breakthrough success in 2005 with I Am a Bird Now (2005), she garnered the UK’s Mercury Award. Releases since include The Crying Light (2009), Swanlights (2010), and live albums Cut The World (2012) and TURNING (2014). In 2016, she released the sharply political electronic album HOPELESSNESS, produced by Hudson Mohawke and Daniel Lopatin, noted as one of the year’s top ten albums by the NY Times. That same year, she was nominated for an Academy Award (best song) for the environmentalist elegy, Manta Ray, featured in the film Racing Extinction (dir. Louie Psihoyos, 2015).

ANOHNI's sixth studio album, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross (2023), continues to examine societal structures, spirituality, and our relationships with the biosphere. The record was named album of the year by The New Yorker. Politiken awarded it five hearts and called it "a delicate flame ignited by the soul music of the past," while GAFFA characterized it as "an otherworldly experience."

The artist reaches for courage, resilience, and ceremony in the face of an unprecedented contemporary landscape, and emphasizes, "For me, there’s no heavenly respite; Creation is a spectral and feminine continuum, and we remain an inalienable part of Nature."

ANOHNI has an enduring relationship with Denmark. In 2018, she presented a solo exhibition featuring drawings, paintings, and video installation at Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen. ANOHNI was artist-in-residence for European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017, where she performed with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, and staged the exhibition “Future Feminism”. ANOHNI has presented concerts at Falkoner Hall, NorthSide, and at the Concert Hall of DR Koncerthuset, where she recorded a live album ("Cut the World") with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra. The beautiful concert cathedral of DR Koncerthuset will be the setting in which ANOHNI and the Johnsons perform for the Copenhagen Jazz Festival on two consecutive evenings, July 12th and 13th, 2024....