Absolute Music #44 X Copenhagen Jazz Festival

ERICSON & OLSSON
SZYMON PIMPON SOLO
TACTICAL MAYBE
THE HITE WOUSE FEAT. BEN RODNEY
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SZYMON PIMPON
Szymon Gasiorek: drums, percussion, etc
- a Polish drummer and composer. In April 2022 he released his debut solo album "Pozdrawiam" (ENG: Greetings) on Pointless Geometry. Sonically innovative, rich in genre, the material combines heavy percussive rhythms with electronic sequences, abstract synthesizer passages, noise, field recordings, static textures, as well as a pop sensibility channeled through autotuned vocals. The album sits comfortably between pop aesthetics, trancelike quality, and experimentation. The album was followed by b-day EP released in 2023 on Love & Beauty Music. Szymon studied at the Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium in Copenhagen. He leads bands such as the post-jazz outfit Pimpono Ensemble, or E/I, engaged in minimalistic music.
„It’s a pop album, it’s a highly intricat
e sound art album and it’s a virtuoso psychedelic percussion album all in one. (…) But Pimpon’s real triumph isn’t the sonic diversity, it’s how it congeals into a coherent and singular world.” - Daryl Worthington, The Quietus

https://pimpon.bandcamp.com/album/pozdrawiam
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THE HITE WOUSE FEAT. BEN RODNEY
Ben Rodney: trumpet / Jon Lipscomb: guitar / Fredrik Håkansson: drums / Asger Thomsen: bass

The Hite Wouse is an American-Swedish-Danish electric powerhouse trio improvising on the verge of far-out abstraction and almost-quantifiable nothingness. In other words: Stuff you want to play out in the Mojave desert, burning sun, people sweating so much that they dont have any tears left when the shit really hits them.

https://jonlipscomb.bandcamp.com/album/the-hite-wouse-is-live-sold-out
https://asgerthomsen.com/the-hite-wouse/
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TACTICAL MAYBE
Tactical Maybe is the collective name of the sonic nexus points located between two pairs of beings known as: Halym and Nana Pi Aabo-Kim, and Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen and Tom Blancarte, whose global roots in USA, Germany, Denmark, Mexico and South Korea, combine and meet within the experimental and improvised music scenes of Denmark. Their music presents a multiverse of possibilities navigated by a quatrologue of choices informed by lives lived in a multitude of musics, resulting in a pulsating expanse of actions and non-actions, pitches and textures, sounds and space.

"If anyone is wondering what exciting free jazz in 2022 is, just open your ears and your other senses to Tactical Maybe - they sure have served up something that could be the answer to that very question." - Tor Hammerø Musikk/Fritt Frem, 2022

Line-up:
Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen (DK/US) - alto, baritone, soprano saxophones, flute, alto clarinet, voice, electronics
Nana Pi Aabo-Kim (DK) - tenor saxophone, voice, objects
Tom Blancarte (US) - bass & euphonium
Halym Aabo-Kim (DE) - drums

https://barefootrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tactical-maybe
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4vokE1D3Q
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ERICSON & OLSSON
Sture Ericson - reeds
Henrik Olsson - guitar

Two swedes living in Diaspora in Copenhagen that has been collaborating for years, mostly in the the trio Ytterlandet. The music moves in a spectrum ranging from pure sound improv to straight playing with references and reminiscences from jazz and free jazz, plus whatever else that can occur to them intuitively in the moment. Both players has vast experiences of collaborating with musicians from both on the local as well as the international scene.