Stengade is ending their Vinterjazz program with a double concert with the two Girls in Airports band members, Mathias Holm and Martin Stender, who will present their solo projects ØYA and Night Repair.
ØYA
Dreams Rewind is the debut from Copenhagen-based producer Mathias Holm, under the name ØYA.
The debut album was released May 4th 2018, followed by a concert series including a performance at the Royal Danish Ballet, June 8th.
ØYA's music is the result of a strong artistic vision and the necessity of venturing deep inside the music. As described by composer Nick Martin “The music has an immediacy and clarity of expression, sounding new while having an air of timelessness. Uplifting songs that marry softness with power".
Beside his work with ØYA, Mathias Holm is a member of the acclaimed Danish band Girls in Airports. Holm has produced the record himself in his studio Mallorca and ØYA has developed from a desk drawer p...
Stengade is ending their Vinterjazz program with a double concert with the two Girls in Airports band members, Mathias Holm and Martin Stender, who will present their solo projects ØYA and Night Repair.
ØYA
Dreams Rewind is the debut from Copenhagen-based producer Mathias Holm, under the name ØYA.
The debut album was released May 4th 2018, followed by a concert series including a performance at the Royal Danish Ballet, June 8th.
ØYA's music is the result of a strong artistic vision and the necessity of venturing deep inside the music. As described by composer Nick Martin “The music has an immediacy and clarity of expression, sounding new while having an air of timelessness. Uplifting songs that marry softness with power".
Beside his work with ØYA, Mathias Holm is a member of the acclaimed Danish band Girls in Airports. Holm has produced the record himself in his studio Mallorca and ØYA has developed from a desk drawer project into the framework of a larger whole, where a number of talented musicians from renowned danish bands like IRAH, I Got You On Tape, DíSA, Halvcirkel and Kentaur have contributed to the debut.
NIGHT REPAIR
The saxophonist Martin Stender is known for being the main songwriter of experimental jazz outfit Girls in Airports, who have slowly built a reputation of being one of Copenhagen’s finest bands. Besides saxophone, the sound of Night Repair is based on a core of two instruments that are not even present in Girls in Airports: bass and guitar.
Night Repair is never bound by genre, drawing influence from Indie Pop, Jazz, Folk and Modern Classical Music alike. Despite its darker drone-like elements, the album is less about building up tension than Stender’s group work. It’s about creating an atmosphere: dreamy, soothing, uplifting, heady, menacing....
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