Pianist Lucas Dann was born in Toronto, Canada in 1997 and moved to Europe in 2015 His most recent performances have been a series of completely improvised solo piano concerts. In the European avant garde community, current collaborators of Dann’s include cellist Anssi Karttunen, pianist Harmen Fraanje, drummer Kresten Osgood and artist Goodiepal. Dann's discography ranges from the music of Thelonious Monk, original composition, to free music with a new live recording released in July of 2022 on Elastic Records entitled “solo”.Brad Mehldau describes him as "a mix of Monk, Chopin, and Dann"
Kresten Osgood is one of these people who at the same time defy and totally own categories. An extraordinary drummer and improviser who with the fullest respect to tradition, challenges it at any given moment of his creative endeavors. He has about a 100 albums to his credit, toured practically everywhere, has been performing and/or recording with legends like Roscoe Mitchell, P...
Pianist Lucas Dann was born in Toronto, Canada in 1997 and moved to Europe in 2015 His most recent performances have been a series of completely improvised solo piano concerts. In the European avant garde community, current collaborators of Dann’s include cellist Anssi Karttunen, pianist Harmen Fraanje, drummer Kresten Osgood and artist Goodiepal. Dann's discography ranges from the music of Thelonious Monk, original composition, to free music with a new live recording released in July of 2022 on Elastic Records entitled “solo”.Brad Mehldau describes him as "a mix of Monk, Chopin, and Dann"
Kresten Osgood is one of these people who at the same time defy and totally own categories. An extraordinary drummer and improviser who with the fullest respect to tradition, challenges it at any given moment of his creative endeavors. He has about a 100 albums to his credit, toured practically everywhere, has been performing and/or recording with legends like Roscoe Mitchell, Paul Bley, Lee Scratch Perry, William Parker, Masabumi Kikuchi, Derek Bailey, Wadada Leo Smith, Jason Moran, Michael Blake, Oliver Lake, Kurt Rosenwinkel, John Tchicai, Tim Berne, Justin Vernon, Peter Brötzman, Joshua Redman, Eugene Chadbourne, Billy Preston, Alan Silva, Brad Mehldau, Mats Gustafsson, Bennie Maupin, The National, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Sam Rivers, Henry Grimes, Dr. Yusef Lateef, Warren Smith, and many many others. But even that doesn't really cover the full spectrum of what he has been up to in his career. A successful rapper, composer, pianist, vocalist, saxophonist and trumpeter, a true multi-instrumentalist, a powerful organizer being an extremely important driving force in lifting and pushing the music life in Copenhagen forward, entertainer with his own shows in TV and radio, receiver of numerous awards and honors, A very sharp kaleidoscope man, regardless of the context always realizing his fullest potential.
Papertrio has put on their crash helmets, and set their course for a strato-stream in deep space. The three cosmonauts Pontoppidan, Cohen and Agergaard are explorers. Looking for rooms where they feel free to go in all musical directions and where there is no limit. They bring the audience on a journey in the universe of music and the spiritual space. Believing in the others ability to dive head first into deep space this musical statement is a true and direct representation of the nature of the trio. Everything can happen.
Greg Cohen is one of the world’s most sought after bass players, collaborating with everyone from Woody Allen, Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson to Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, and Brian Eno. He has also worked as an arranger, producer, musical director and composer for the theatre, film, television and recording studios.
Randi Pontoppidan is an internationally acclaimed artist, improviser and composer. Known for her extended vocal techniques, often mixed with live electronic processing. She has been likened to Diamanda Galás and Maja S. K. Ratkje. Pontoppidan works with jazz luminaries including Joëlle Léandre, Sissel Vera Pettersen and Peter Bruun and are members of Damkapellet and the vocal ensemble IKI.
Thomas Agergaard saxophonist and composer, known for many interdisciplinary projects ranging from astrophysicists, adventurers, sound installations, house artist at Christiansborg, collaboration with a large numbers of international musicians including Django Bates, Andrew Hill, Marilyn Mazur, Nils Peter Molvær and Lars Jansson.
Ensemble DOUDOUČI is an international band consisting of young creative musicians based in Copenhagen, led by Slovak saxophone player and composer Michaela Turcerová. The music of the ensemble is informed by contemporary music for percussion, minimalism and free jazz energy. It is also determined by relatively open scores, often circulating around cyclical and durational events with a trance-like meditative quality, focusing on collective sound. The result is a multilayered sonicscape representing a non-hierarchical partnership. DOUDOUČI has released its first eponymous EP in November 2022 on CRRNT Records....
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