Vinterjazz: Fire! Orchestra Community Based-Activities

Experience the internationally acclaimed free jazz big band Fire! Orchestra joining forces with a new generation of Danish experimentalists as the ensemble comes to Vinterjazz as Final Descent's Artists in Residence 2027.

A core group of musicians from the world-renowned orchestra will join forces with a dozen young Danish experimentalists from the collective Movement Shaped Like A Heart to establish a new, site-specific incarnation of Fire! Orchestra, presented in two concerts in Aarhus and Copenhagen.

The concert is presented in collaboration with Vinterjazz, Movement Shaped Like A Heart and Basement
Fire! Orchestra
Fire! Orchestra is a Sweden-based experimental jazz ensemble founded in 2009 by saxophonist and composer Mats Gustafsson in collaboration with bassist Johan Berthling and drummer Andreas Werliin. Emerging from the trio Fire!, the orchestra has since established itself as one of the most significant ensembles in European free jazz, improvised music, and genre-defying big band music.

Over the years, the ensemble has featured up to 30 musicians and operates at the intersection of free improvisation and open, flexible compositions. Fire! Orchestra is known for its uncompromising approach to the big band format, where spontaneous composition, graphic structures, and open-ended improvisation merge into overwhelming, psychedelic works drawing on spiritual jazz, the European avant-garde, and the American big band tradition.

https://earthwindand.com/da

Movement Shaped Like A Heart
Movement Shaped Like A Heart is a musician collective and independent record label based in Copenhagen and Aarhus, operating at the intersection of free improvisation, experimental jazz, noise rock, and alternative pop.

The collective functions as both an artistic community and a curatorial platform, unrestricted by rigid genre conventions. Through its own concert activities, record releases, wide-ranging collaborations, and self-organised initiatives, Movement Shaped Like A Heart has helped create visibility and cohesion within a scene characterised by scattered initiatives and temporary projects.

The project's participants come from a wide range of bands, including Tegn, Hands on Fire, Asta Band, Spiderpeople, Psychobillyjazz 3, and Bending Backwards.

https://movementshapedlikeaheart.com/

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DANISH

Oplev det internationalt anerkendte freejazz-bigband Fire! Orchestra i mødet med den nye generation af danske eksperimentalister, når orkestret gæster Vinterjazz som Final Descents Artists in Residence 2027.

En kerne af det verdenskendte orkester går sammen med et dusin unge danske eksperimentalister fra kollektivet Movement Shaped Like A Heart om at etablere en ny, stedsspecifik udgave af Fire! Orchestra, der præsenteres ved to koncerter i Aarhus og København.

Koncerten præsenteres i samarbejde med Vinterjazz, Movement Shaped Like A Heart og Basement

Dato: Lørdag 27.02.26
Dørene åbner: 19:00
Koncert: 20:00
Pris: 220 DKK i forsalg / 250 i døren
Venue: Basement, Enghavevej 7, København

Fire! Orchestra
Fire! Orchestra er et svenskbaseret, eksperimenterende jazzensemble grundlagt i 2009 af saxofonist og komponist Mats Gustafsson i samarbejde med bassist Johan Berthling og trommeslager Andreas Werliin. Orkestret udspringer af trioen Fire! og har siden etableret sig som en af de mest markante formationer inden for europæisk freejazz, improvisationsmusik og genreoverskridende bigbandmusik.

Ensemblet har gennem årene talt op mod 30 musikere og arbejder i spændingsfeltet mellem fri improvisation og åbne, elastiske kompositioner. Fire! Orchestra er kendt for sin kompromisløse tilgang til bigbandformatet, hvor spontankomposition, grafiske strukturer og åbne improvisationsforløb smelter sammen i overvældende, psykedeliske værker, der trækker på både spirituel jazz, europæisk avantgarde og den amerikanske bigbandtradition.

https://earthwindand.com/da

Movement Shaped Like A Heart
Movement Shaped Like A Heart er et musikerkollektiv og uafhængigt pladeselskab med base i København og Aarhus, der arbejder i spændingsfeltet mellem fri improvisation, eksperimenterende jazz, støjrock og alternativ pop.

Kollektivet fungerer både som kunstnerisk fællesskab og kuratorisk enhed uden stramme genrekonventioner. Gennem egen koncertvirksomhed, udgivelsespraksis, brede samarbejder og selvorganisering har Movement Shaped Like A Heart været med til at skabe synlighed og sammenhæng i et miljø præget af spredte initiativer og midlertidige projekter.

Projektets deltagere kommer fra vidt forskellige bands som Tegn, Hands on Fire, Asta Band, Spiderpeople, Psychobillyjazz 3 og Bending Backwards.

https://movementshapedlikeaheart.com/

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Line-up ↓

Fire! Orchestra
Alex Zethson (keyboards, grand piano)
Mads Forsby (drums)
Mariá Portugal (drums, vocals)
Johan Berthling (electric bass)
Mats Gustafsson (baritone saxophone)
Mette Rasmussen (alto saxophone)
Mats Äleklint (trombone)

Movement Shaped Like A Heart
Miamaja Vinter (tenor saxophone)
Isak Schiødt (tenor saxophone)
Flora Carbo (alto saxophone)
Jo Hoxer (trumpet)
Petra Sanggaard (trumpet, viola)
Maiken Thunbo (cello)
Claire Dickson (vocals, electronics)
Magnus Munk Tækker (pedal steel guitar, electronics)
Signe Østlund Jacobsen (synthesizer, piano)
Halfdan Magnus Stefansson (guitars)
Samuel Tiger Richmond (electric bass)
Jens Højbøge Mosegaard (drums)
Mikkel Wilstrup (drums)

The project is supported by
Statens Kunstfond
Koda Kulturs Projektpulje
Jazzpuljen
Vinterjazz / Copenhagen Jazz Festival
Jazz Danmark
Dansk Artist Forbund

Graphic design by Island Made of Sand and Clay

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