The Match. It can imply a sense of compatibility and connection. Or it can imply a challenge, competition or conflict. This contradiction represents the basis for this duo formation between pianist Johanna Borchert and double bassist Miles Perkin.

The Match. Two people. Two Instrumentalists, Two Voices. Two compatible sound worlds combine to form one singular wide-reaching sound. Two musicians with a wide web of musical meeting points. While the process of their music making is based on these connection points, the content of the music is centered around the challenges and conflicts that are embeded in daily life; doubt, anxiety, dis-trust of others around you, your partner, yourself, and the chaos of carving out a “normal” life through a turbulant age when everyday feels like you are in not only “a match”, but The Match against a formidable opponent that you are unprepared to face. It can get so overwhelming that sometimes you want to strike The Match and burn ...

The Match. It can imply a sense of compatibility and connection. Or it can imply a challenge, competition or conflict. This contradiction represents the basis for this duo formation between pianist Johanna Borchert and double bassist Miles Perkin.

The Match. Two people. Two Instrumentalists, Two Voices. Two compatible sound worlds combine to form one singular wide-reaching sound. Two musicians with a wide web of musical meeting points. While the process of their music making is based on these connection points, the content of the music is centered around the challenges and conflicts that are embeded in daily life; doubt, anxiety, dis-trust of others around you, your partner, yourself, and the chaos of carving out a “normal” life through a turbulant age when everyday feels like you are in not only “a match”, but The Match against a formidable opponent that you are unprepared to face. It can get so overwhelming that sometimes you want to strike The Match and burn it all down.

As instrumentalists, the two musicians bring a vast other-worldly sound vocabulary on their respective instruments using preparations and extended techniques drawing from jazz, new music composition, and long form improvisations. They use their voices to blend these elements with the craft of songwriting to create long arcs that weave between contrasting musical zones that rarely co-exist. From abstract layered sound fabrics, to active angular rhythmic outbursts, to simple songs, to serene soundscapes and everything in between. For the listener, this makes a captivating and touching experience that makes it impossible to predict what is coming next. Voices and sounds interweave to create a musical world that is all their own, and greater than the sum of it’s parts.

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The trio ANIMAE meets in open, airy interpretations of new works by Anderskov.
The music, written within clear frameworks, lives in the interplay where structure and intuition naturally coexist.
It balances between the poetic and the abstract.
The sound of a single tone can open and point toward entirely new directions –
A motif can be broken into fragments, repeated, dissolved, or reappear in a new shape –
Silence and resonance can stand side by side with movement and energy.
Tone color and pulse shift like layers changing position, without any of them dominating.
It is music that allows space for immersion, for attention, and for being drawn into a field where time may feel expanded or dissolved.
A series of brand new compositions by Jacob Anderskov, all named after mythological figures representing the forces of nature and life*, form the basis for music that is at once refreshing, empathetic, and deeply listening.

For example:
Aletheia (spirit of truth, truthfulness and sincerity)
Angelia (spirit of messages, tidings and proclamations)
Eirene (goddess of peace)
Eos (goddess of the dawn)

[…The name ANIMAE is a declension of Anima (Latin: “spirit,” “soul,” “life force,” “breath”), which can mean “of the soul / of the spirit,” or “the souls / the spirits”…]

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