Jazz concerts and street basketball merge in a free outdoor event featuring three young Danish, Finnish, and international jazz artists.
Solaris Quartet (FIN): 16.30, Children Of Fish (int): 18.15, TBA: 19.30.
"Together, Køs unite their love of grandeur and fragility in a search for intense new sonic landscapes. In recent years, the trio has received significant attention in Scandinavia for their highly distinctive sound, where free improvisation is at the core.
In an electroacoustic universe, the sounds of woodwinds, strings, drums, and vocals are blended, bent, and manipulated – where instruments both merge, stand out, and form new harmonies. Sometimes the music resembles a pop hit – other times it sounds like ambient symphonic music – or suddenly, like a blanket of noise.
As a listener, you must be prepared for long-form developments, expressive outbursts, beautiful melodies, expansive sonic textures, repetitive rhythmic layers, and large d...
Jazz concerts and street basketball merge in a free outdoor event featuring three young Danish, Finnish, and international jazz artists.
Solaris Quartet (FIN): 16.30, Children Of Fish (int): 18.15, TBA: 19.30.
"Together, Køs unite their love of grandeur and fragility in a search for intense new sonic landscapes. In recent years, the trio has received significant attention in Scandinavia for their highly distinctive sound, where free improvisation is at the core.
In an electroacoustic universe, the sounds of woodwinds, strings, drums, and vocals are blended, bent, and manipulated – where instruments both merge, stand out, and form new harmonies. Sometimes the music resembles a pop hit – other times it sounds like ambient symphonic music – or suddenly, like a blanket of noise.
As a listener, you must be prepared for long-form developments, expressive outbursts, beautiful melodies, expansive sonic textures, repetitive rhythmic layers, and large dynamic shifts.
Køs has been playing together since 2014, and is today spread out between Oslo, Los Angeles and Copenhagen, and is known from diverse bands such as Caktus, Josiah Konder, Merdh Laleh, Winter, Goon, and Marni. Their newest album "Worldsorrow" just came out this June 2025, their most daring to date. In 2020 they released their debut album "An Uncaught Bird" on Forlaget Kornmod, and in 2021 they released the album ‘Ud af en mund’ (‘Out of a Mouth’) in collaboration with poet Pia Tafdrup, based on excerpts from her quintology on the senses."...
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