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The duo Küchen/Berre started their collaboration in 2016 as occasional jam sessions at Berre’s rehearsal room in Copenhagen. Then came the corona pandemic. After the pandemic lost its grip, Küchen and Berre resumed their collaboration and have since recorded their first duo album “På Snurr” (meaning “crooked/distorted/drunk” or “spinning”) that will be released on Barefoot...
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Feast For The Ears is a new pop-up venue for experimental music, opening its doors for the first time during Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2025 at Råhuset in Vesterbro. Over the course of 7 days, it will present an uncompromising program of free improvisation, electroacoustics, noise, ambient, contemporary composition, and genre hybrids — curated by seven key players...
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Barefoot Records X Eddie Bolger (Copenhagen Jazzfestival 2024) This film was made in collaboration with Eddie Bolger, who collected documentary footage in and around Copenhagen for 48 hours during the Jazz Festival in July 2024. Eddie’s omnivorous camera takes us to the supermarket, on a boat trip, for a run in the park, and accompanies...
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Planting Trees for the Festival has been recorded during a residency in October 2023 at the Jazzclub Saxstall in Pohrsdorf. It contains improvised pieces that emerged instantly in several free sessions. Double bass player Jonas Gerigk invited Nana Pi and Halym Kim to work on musical group identity that evolves within one week. Besides enjoying time...
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Mirror Matter is drummer and sound artist Håkon Berre’s solo project. Mirror Matter presents Håkon sitting on the floor with his expanded and diverse floor-setup. Using a “gran cassa” as a habitat for his vast diversity of trash and objects, he juggles scrupulously with materials such as metal, plastic, cardboard, paper, wood and expanded polystyrene...
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New release on Barefoot from Thou Sonic Friend On December 1st, 2023, Thou Sonic Friend will release their new album, Aventure, on the Barefoot Records label. The Copenhagen experimental trio whose debut album Cinemateria was released in 2019, features Barefoot member Carolyn Goodwin on clarinet and bass clarinet, along with Peter Tinning on guitar, and Birgitte Lyregaard on vocals and percussion. The album is a live recording of the trio in concert with special guest Toma Gouband during the Danish Winter Jazz Festival in 2022. Toma Gouband is a French master improviser known for his iconic 'arranged drumset,' that includes......
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In september Barefoot Records member, Maria Dybbroe, went to Warsaw with Jazz Denmark. The meeting is focusing on creating a continued collaboration between the polish and danish jazz scene. Background for Danish Polish Jazz Network It is said to be the interplay between the Danish focus on individual artistic expression and the Polish tradition of...
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Barefoot Records Jazzfestival 6-8 juli 2023 Barefoot Records inviterer til 9 alsidige koncerter i Husets Biograf under Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2023. Glæd jer til at blive inspireret, rørt, overrasket og udfordret når musikerkollektivet Barefoot Records for 14. år i træk inviterer til en mini-festival med fokus på improvisation og musikalsk mangfoldighed. ...
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Shoeless and Shameless: The Barefoot Collective Shoeless and Shameless er The Barefoot Collective’s første samlede album, hvor alle medlemmer medvirker. Udgivelsen er mangfoldig og præsenterer en bred palette af musik, der indeholder både humor, nysgerrighed og refleksion -der samtidigt afspejler medlemmernes forskelligartede udtryk. Optagelserne fandt sted, en solskinsdag i juni 2021, hvor medlemmerne af det kunstnerdrevne pladeselskab Barefoot Records tog til Hvalsø, i midten af Sjælland. Hvert medlem medbragte en komposition, som blev fremført, gennem forskellige konstellationer. På denne dag viklede kunstnerkollektivet sig ind i hinandens musik, og albummet Shoeless and Shameless blev til. Man fornemmer, at kunstnerkollektivets værdier: improvisation......
