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 is a quartet working with percussion, drums and cymbals in a circular choreography assembled as one unity in the shape of a flower (Danish: blomsten).
The group approach their music in an egalitarian and collective manner, using improvisation as the seed that propagates into new musical organisms - spontaneous, anarchic and highly organised, all at once.
“Pladsen” is the debut album from Blomsten. The quartet works with percussion, drums and cymbals in a circular choreography assembled as one instrument in the shape of a flower (Danish: blomsten).
Each player shares a small setup consisting of a flipped bass drum, a snare drum and a cymbal, bongos and small objects united in a cascading configuration. The possibilities and limitations of this unusual joint drum kit marks the baseline from which Blomsten works.
The group consists of four artists who have previously worked together in an array of projects, but the quartet manifested itself when they played together in the Aar & Dag tentet on the LP “Tifold af Fri Form og Fælles Motiv” in 2021.
The four performers share an explorative and open attitude in their playing. They approach their compositions in an egalitarian and collective manner, developing interdependent parts together, using improvisation as the seed that propagates into new musical organisms - spontaneous, anarchic and highly organized, all at once.
The circular architecture of the drum layout allows the performers to use physical movement and gestures as an integrated part of their compositions. This doesn’t only make it a fascinating sight to behold, to experience the quartet live, but also lends itself......

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