Since finishing his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, David Stackenäs (b. 1974) has grown to become one of the mainstays of improvised and creative music in Sweden. Over the years he has developed a unique way of playing guitar – both prepared with different materials as well as conventional technique and a growing armada of pedals. With a wide range of sounds and techniques he creates music with great imagination and poetry. As a soloist he mainly focuses on acoustic guitars, using a lot of the organic sound-possibilities and timbres the instrument has to offer.
Johannes Gammelgaard (b. 1992) is a Danish saxophone player and composer living in Stockholm. The last several years, he has been active on the jazz and improv scene in Scandinavia, having toured and released music with his own bands and as a sideman. His musical output draws inspiration from the folk songs and hymns of his childhood as well as the American jazz tradition and the current Swedish sc...

Since finishing his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, David Stackenäs (b. 1974) has grown to become one of the mainstays of improvised and creative music in Sweden. Over the years he has developed a unique way of playing guitar – both prepared with different materials as well as conventional technique and a growing armada of pedals. With a wide range of sounds and techniques he creates music with great imagination and poetry. As a soloist he mainly focuses on acoustic guitars, using a lot of the organic sound-possibilities and timbres the instrument has to offer.
Johannes Gammelgaard (b. 1992) is a Danish saxophone player and composer living in Stockholm. The last several years, he has been active on the jazz and improv scene in Scandinavia, having toured and released music with his own bands and as a sideman. His musical output draws inspiration from the folk songs and hymns of his childhood as well as the American jazz tradition and the current Swedish scene of creative music. The recent years, he has been diving deeper into the possibilities of the saxophone in an improvised musical context, exploring extended techniques as well as preparations.
David and Johannes met in Stockholm working together in the concert organisation FRIM. In their duo collaboration, they jump head first into an expressive interplay, thereby creating an at times energetic, at times contemplative flow of sounds where the border between their respective instruments is blurred....

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