Meet GNOM, the forthcoming solo project of Anders Bach, and hear how an ethereally ambient album developed into a noisy and extreme musical expression shaped by tragedy. Confronting grief, his approach to making music went from intellectual and subtle to musically clear and deeply personal. His album “Bitumenic” releases June 9th.

To begin with, the first sketches for the album were spiritual and abstract. By first adding physical drums, he connected to a feral instinct and a melodic emotionality. He worked with Fire-Toolz aka. Angel Marcloid, further driving the album in a direction resonating with Anders' explosive emotional proces. It became an album that emphasizes and embraces the pleasure part of "guilty pleasure", expressing joy in the face of fear or even death.

Produced by Louise Tandrup Esbensen

Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and The Augustinus Foundation

TRACKLIST:

1. GNOM - This Strain Of The Self (feat. Fire-Toolz)
2. GNOM - Unreleased sketch
3. GNOM - Unreleased sketch
4. GNOM - Unreleased sketch
5. GNOM - Coagulate
6. GNOM - Hark Hark! The Lark Does Liquesce
7. Fire-Toolz - It is Happening Again (Thank You, Council Of Saturn!)
8. GNOM - This Strain Of The Self (feat. Fire-Toolz)
9. GNOM - O Is For Obedience
10. GNOM - Coagulate
11. GNOM - Sister: Let Hel Hold What She Has
12. GNOM - The Bile
13. GNOM - Entry Plug, The Vessel Of The Heart
14. GNOM - Foot (feat. Seiðr)

Meet composer and clarinetist Carolyn Goodwin, founder of Copenhagen Clarinet Choir, and hear her musical origin story in both words and sounds. She originally studied classical saxophone and played new compositions. Later in life, she discovered improvised music.

She talks about her methods of composing for improvisation, such as defining simple ideas as musical spaces to move through and explore in sequence, like the life of a newly hatched bird growing from whisper songs to singing in flight. Improvisation, to Carolyn, is about listening, working with subtle textures, nuances, and overtones, discovering the limit of what her instrument can do, and also discovering the power to take whatever is encountered in the musical space and sending it new directions.

Produced by Mei Bao

Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and The Augustinus Foundation

TRACKLIST:

1. Copenhagen Clarinet Choir - Organism
2. Clang Sayne - Curse You Mocking Moon
3. Copenhagen Clarinet Choir - Flocking, Part 1
4. Copenhagen Clarinet Choir - Flocking, Part 2
5. Copenhagen Clarinet Choir - Hive Mind
6. Copenhagen Clarinet Choir - Water Piece

Meet Copenhagen-based musician and producer Debbie Sings. She talks about how her musical project is a learning process through copying and sampling, trial and error, creating a chaotic output of different inspirations, contrasts and extremes.

Learning how to make music with a computer freed and empowered her to do whatever she wanted, creating a universe that both she and her audience can escape into from reality for a while. Not unlike the traditional 50s pop that inspires her like a broken romantic picture of sweet melancholy, her music expresses a happy mood even as the lyrics contain deeper and darker emotions.

Produced by Louise Tandrup Esbensen and Mei Bao

Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and The Augustinus Foundation

TRACKLIST:

1. Debbie Sings: Satanizer
2. Debbie Sings: WhOOsh
3. SOPHIE: Lemonade
4. Debbie Sings: Godspeed
5. Bernadette Caroll: Care a Little
6. Debbie Sings: No Title (Performed at Vegas Livesession)
7. Debbie Sings: F My Tears Away
8. Debbie Sings and Jens Aagaard: Kæmpe mix 266

Meet Copenhagen-based rapper CHIEF who began freestyling as a young teenager. After jumping into her musical career, as she puts it, "it's hard to crawl back into your shy space."

She talks about how politics is at the core of her music, just as it was when hip-hop began in the 80s but also about how emotional vulnerability is coming to the fore.

Produced by Mei Bao

Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and The Augustinus Foundation

TRACKLIST:

1. Gutter Intelligence
2. FUCK THA POLICE
3. Princepel Rebel
4. Would U Wait ft. Olivia Lincoln
5. Project Baby

Meet Peachlyfe, the moniker of Petra Skibsted. The Lake Radio talks to them in Berlin about how the city became a place to both develop their musical practice and to explore queer identity.

They talk about immersing themself in club music, leaving a life of jazz and live bands behind in Copenhagen, about working alone and never finishing tracks, and about how electronic music can create spaces for experimenting with gender and sexuality.

Produced by Mei Bao

Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and The Augustinus Foundation

TRACKLIST:

1. Against All Reason pt. 2
2. Against All Reason pt. 1
3. Hot Boi
4. Cry Boi
5. Fly Boi

Meet the Copenhagen-based artist and composer Jura, and dive into her debut album 'Formality Jerne-Site' (2022).

Jura unfolds some of her songs and talks about composing duets for friendships and time traveling with music. Listen and discover how music can be a break from the logics that we normally navigate the world with.

Produced by Louise Tandrup Esbensen & Mei Bao

Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and The Augustinus Foundation

Tracklist:

1. Amephrey and Ontario
2. Someone's Lifework
3. Same Late Age (dIcK bIfFeReNcE)
4. Grand Jury Staller
5. Amephrey and Ontario

Meet the Copenhagen-based four-piece slim0, consisting of Simin Stine Ramezanali, Joalane Mohapeloa, and sisters Mija and Lena Milovic.

They tell the story of how the band was formed and keeps changing with their intuition. How do they create their songs? What unites them musically? And are they actually a rock band?

Produced by Mei Bao

Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and The Augustinus Foundation

TRACKLIST:

1. Sleepless
2. Tamo Daleko
3. Sol i Øjet
4. Joint
5. Harps, Keys, Violence

Meet the Copenhagen-based musician and producer Varnrable, who released her debut album 'Airborn' in the spring of 2022.

She unfolds her creative process, speaks about the feeling of being ungrounded and the power of being vulnerable.

Produced by Louise Tandrup Esbensen

Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and The Augustinus Foundation

Photo by Liv Habel

TRACKLIST:

1. Nina Simone - Strange Fruit
2. Varnrable - Misary
3. M.I.A. - Galang
4. Varnrable - unreleased sketch
5. Varnrable - unreleased sketch
6. Varnrable - On/Off
7. Varnrable - Interlude
8. Varnrable - Miss Understood
9. Varnrable - Design I Could Not Love
10. Varnrable - Let’s Kill The Vibe
11. Varnrable - unreleased sketch
12. Varnrable - F.O.D