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Feast For The Ears is a pop-up venue for experimental music, opening its doors for the second time during Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2026 at Råhuset in Vesterbro. Over the course of 6 days, it will present an uncompromising program of free improvisation, electroacoustics, noise, ambient, contemporary composition, and genre hybrids — curated by seven key...
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Celebrated Danish-Polish quartet Ocean Fanfare return with Third Nature, the final instalment in their long-form Nature Trilogy. Led by trumpeter Tomasz Dąbrowski and saxophonist Sven Dam Meinild, the group pushes further into structurally open, improvisation-led music, embracing a freer, more volatile approach to layered and non-linear time. Third Nature is set for release on...
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With We Vote Force Majeure the quartet Hyper Elastic Jinx sends a political message to the listener – a message that reminds us that the world and the structures we are living in are not socially, economically, ecologically or politically sustainable and benefit only a minority of people. The album is not an invocation of...
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BAREFOOT RECORDS REMOVES CATALOG FROM SPOTIFY After a long period of frustration, we at Barefoot Records have made the decision to remove all of our releases from Spotify. The streaming platform has moved in a direction where we no longer feel that we as a collective label are in line with their business model. As...
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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......
