GESH is a new project by composers/musicians Jaleh Negari and Maria Bertel, both co-founders of the collective Eget Værelse and sharing duties in the noise rock band Selvhenter. Utilizing drum kit, synthesizers and amplified trombone this powerhouse duo works its way through long swathes of sound standing on pillars of krautrock, drone and noise.
Both are well down the path of their own solo careers. Besides her solo work, Bertel also performs in groups like G.E.K., Jooklo Danish Group, Vladislav Delay quartet and The BIG Yes. Negari holds a master’s degree in composition from RMC and has released two critically acclaimed solo albums while also taking a seat in the performance group Meshes and the art projekt Fungal Network.

Herman Müntzing is an experimental and improvising musician and composer from Baskemölla, Sweden, who prefer to treat and mistreat different kinds of acoustic and electric objects whenever and wherever it is appropriate. His musical wor...

GESH is a new project by composers/musicians Jaleh Negari and Maria Bertel, both co-founders of the collective Eget Værelse and sharing duties in the noise rock band Selvhenter. Utilizing drum kit, synthesizers and amplified trombone this powerhouse duo works its way through long swathes of sound standing on pillars of krautrock, drone and noise.
Both are well down the path of their own solo careers. Besides her solo work, Bertel also performs in groups like G.E.K., Jooklo Danish Group, Vladislav Delay quartet and The BIG Yes. Negari holds a master’s degree in composition from RMC and has released two critically acclaimed solo albums while also taking a seat in the performance group Meshes and the art projekt Fungal Network.

Herman Müntzing is an experimental and improvising musician and composer from Baskemölla, Sweden, who prefer to treat and mistreat different kinds of acoustic and electric objects whenever and wherever it is appropriate. His musical world embraces sounds produced by “normal” musical instruments as well as short-circuit video-mixers, children toys, found objects and slowly rolling ping-pong balls. He is also the creator of 12 stringed experimental instrument “Flexichord” built out of strings and pickups from 2 electric guitars attached to a piece of massive wood.

Qarin Wikström is an improvising and composing vocalist and musician, and has been an active part of the blossoming avant-garde and experimental music scenes in Copenhagen for well over a decade, having released 18 albums so far, as main composer or co-writer. With a background in a broad spectre of genres as classical chamber music, pop, jazz, Swedish folklore and freely improvised music, Qarin’s musical vision and expression comes through as a confession to all of it, blending the varying influences into a not yet specified genre. With projects such as Q, Kostcirkeln, Shitney, Sekten, Orbit Stern & Q and reBell, she has received critical acclaim, nominations and recipient of Danish Music Award Jazz, and in 2012 she recieved the three-year grant from the Danish Arts Council. Member of Copenhagen independent label ILK.

Tobias Karlehag is a multi-instrumentalist and sound artist from Gothenburg, Sweden. With his solo project he creates spacious ambient and drone music through algorithmic compositions and improvisation.
In his debut album 'Process' he shapes a still and meditative state with modular synths, electric guitar and various electronics with underlying narratives. The music is the result of a shift where the inspiration for his work comes, partially from field recordings, chance and his own reflections on flow and break-up....

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