Children of Fish is an international trio consisting of three friendly creatures - Malina Midera, Petter Asbjørnsen, and Jēkabs Rēders. We are united by the desire for mutual understanding and free expression in music as well as in life, so our music radiates joy, freedom, and complex simplicity.
On October 25, 2024, the band released their debut album 'Sunrise Paper Punk' under the label Østersperle Plader Records. The album is eclectic and expressive, interweaving improvisation, composition, and post-production through the progression of 12 unique songs, composed by all the members of the trio.
While being a traditional piano trio, the band chooses to step away from the tradition and embrace our influences from different fields and genres for example synth-pop, Nordic jazz, and European improvised music. Their philosophy is to strive for honest, borderless creativity while radiating joy, acceptance, and vulnerability.
We believe that our music embodies a sens...

Children of Fish is an international trio consisting of three friendly creatures - Malina Midera, Petter Asbjørnsen, and Jēkabs Rēders. We are united by the desire for mutual understanding and free expression in music as well as in life, so our music radiates joy, freedom, and complex simplicity.
On October 25, 2024, the band released their debut album 'Sunrise Paper Punk' under the label Østersperle Plader Records. The album is eclectic and expressive, interweaving improvisation, composition, and post-production through the progression of 12 unique songs, composed by all the members of the trio.
While being a traditional piano trio, the band chooses to step away from the tradition and embrace our influences from different fields and genres for example synth-pop, Nordic jazz, and European improvised music. Their philosophy is to strive for honest, borderless creativity while radiating joy, acceptance, and vulnerability.
We believe that our music embodies a sense of child-like innocence combined with deep sensibility and a tactile approach to sound and inter-play. Our aim is to embrace and reflect on the simple, honest, and quirky aspects of humanity and express it joyfully and creatively through our music.

Darius Heid / Kresten Osgood
Darius Heid is a german pianist based in Cologne. He is a creative improvisor-composer who formulates his personal sound material and artistic expression through intensive research. His style has been described as ''quiet, present, precise, quick-witted and energetic.''
Darius Heid works in numerous projects of his own in-between the fields of improvised music, new music, sound art, experimental club music, jazz and hiphop. Heid studied at the HfMT Cologne with Prof. Paulo Álvares, Jürgen Friedrich, Hubert Nuss and Frank Gratkowski as well as in Copenhagen with Jacques Demierre and Simon Toldam. Concert tours have taken him to Japan, South Africa, Canada, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Denmark.

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....

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