Ålen
Exciting and lyrical improvisational music, where the moving sound of the alto saxophone floats over raw, rattling indie guitar and pulsating drums. With a shared spartan and lyrical approach, they patiently immerse themselves in the unknown and transcendent.

A performance by de Heney / Wikström opens a sound world of woody creaks, groaning resonance and sheer textures. Their music blends and merges the acoustic and the electronic, weaving the tactile with the immaterial to create shifting sonic landscapes that feel both intimate and otherworldly.
Nina de Heney and Qarin Wikström are two singular artists in the Scandinavian improvisation scene. Each is known for an uncompromising musicality, a deeply personal artistic language, and a refined sensitivity to interplay. When they began working together in 2018, their connection was immediate: curious, direct, and full of shared instinct. Since then, they have cultivated a duo that explores sound with ...

Ålen
Exciting and lyrical improvisational music, where the moving sound of the alto saxophone floats over raw, rattling indie guitar and pulsating drums. With a shared spartan and lyrical approach, they patiently immerse themselves in the unknown and transcendent.

A performance by de Heney / Wikström opens a sound world of woody creaks, groaning resonance and sheer textures. Their music blends and merges the acoustic and the electronic, weaving the tactile with the immaterial to create shifting sonic landscapes that feel both intimate and otherworldly.
Nina de Heney and Qarin Wikström are two singular artists in the Scandinavian improvisation scene. Each is known for an uncompromising musicality, a deeply personal artistic language, and a refined sensitivity to interplay. When they began working together in 2018, their connection was immediate: curious, direct, and full of shared instinct. Since then, they have cultivated a duo that explores sound with fearless attention and an ever-evolving sense of discovery.
Their debut album QOMOLANGMA, released on Outerdisk in 2023, has been praised for its immersive depth. As Eyal Hareuveni (Salt Peanuts) wrote:
“Acoustic electronics meet electronic acoustics in an inspired and most touching dream state. De Heney and Wikström do not only mirror their most immediate instincts and their vulnerable expressions and vibrations but suggest a cosmic mirror of eternal creation, from the heavenly Mother Earth Goddess to our daily lives.”

Blomsten
The Copenhagen-based quartet Blomsten (‘The Flower’) works with percussion, drums, and cymbals in a circular choreography assembled as one instrument in the shape of a flower. Together, the group has created the works BLOOM (2021) and DROPS (2022) and released their debut album Pladsen in 2024 on the label Aar & Dag. The circular architecture of the drum layout allows the performers to use physical movement and gestures as an integrated part of their compositions. This makes the quartet a fascinating sight to behold, while also lending itself to a different sensibility of sound, as the performers guide their sticks, brushes, and mallets in new and unexpected ways....

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