Folk, jazz and experimental in Icelandic, English and Danish. 

The group was founded by singer and composer Nina Björk Eliasson and guitarist and composer Hasse Poulsen in 1994. The two were joined to begin with by cellist Maria Bisgaard and drums and percussionist Lars Juul. Later came Martin percussionist Martin Bregnhøi and several others have played with the group throughout the years, like the guitarist Morten Steen, base players Olav Gudnasson and Henrik Simonsen, violinist Jørgen Dickmeiss, organ player Iver Kleive, percussionist and vibraphonistThomas Sandberg and fagotist Aida Nadeem.     

Together they made the 3 albums: 'Sortner du sky' (1995, Av-Art), 'Í kjól úr vatni' (1999, Tutl) and 'Lemon River' (2001, Tutl), featuring and composed over texts by Nina Björk Árnadóttir, Simon Grotian, Lene Henningsen, Steinunn Sigurdardóttir, Sjón, Linda Vilhjálmsdóttir, Sigurdur Pálsson, and Chinese folk poetry. 

Klakki played concerts all over Denmark and in Germany and Sweden. On this profile you can listen to previously unreleased concert recordings by Klakki as well as tracks from their studio albums. 

Klakki have not been playing together since 2006. 

“Guitarist Han-earl Park is a musical philosopher…. Expect unexpected things from Park, who is a delightful shape-shifter….” — Brian Morton (Point of Departure)

Shifting and switching from No Wave skronk to interstellar guitarist-as-drummer virtuosity, from stampedes of miniature Pomeranian Buffalos to All-You-Zombies heterophonies, Han-earl Park (박한얼) has been performing beautifully messy, joyously difficult, ambiguous and discordant improvised musics for over twenty years.

Park is the mastermind behind ensembles including Eris 136199 with Catherine Sikora and Nick Didkovsky; Juno 3 with Lara Jones and Pat Thomas; and Gonggong 225088 with Yorgos Dimitriadis and Camila Nebbia; and performs as part of a duo with Richard Barrett. His ensembles have appeared at festivals including Jazz em Agosto (Lisbon), EFG London Jazz Festival, Brilliant Corners (Belfast), Freedom of the City (London), ISIM (New York), dialogues festival (Edinburgh) and Sonic Acts (Amsterdam). Park’s recordings have been released by labels including NEWJAiM, Ramble Records, SLAM Productions, Creative Sources and DUNS Limited Edition.

“A colorful, sometimes violent and revelatory listening experience that infuses modern aesthetics with the spirit of the ancient…. Ancient and primordial with ideas as open as the night sky….” — John Morrison (Jazz Right Now)

“Park… may just have the specter of drumming giant Rashied Ali guiding his hands. His fingers, palms and wrists tirelessly bounce, skitter, smear, stroke, strum, hammer-on, pull-off and thump his solid-body electric. Considering the rapidity of his technique, the effect is not simply percussive, but utterly drumkit-like and a liberated kit at that….” — John Pietaro (The New York City Jazz Record)

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im also @zack-christ

Gunnar Karel was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1984. He started studying music at an early age and has played a diverse range of instruments. As a composer Gunnar mainly focuses on chamber music as he finds that his music gets the attention it deserves in smaller setups. Besides his composing he has been making his mark as concert producer. He founded the Sonic festival in Copenhagen with Filip C. de Melo in 2012. He is also one of the curators for the Peripheriberry group and was the artistic director of Dark Music Days in Reykjavik 2016 - 2020.
Gunnar is a member of Danish Composers Society, the theater group 16 elskendur and the Icelandic composers collective S.L.Á.T.U.R.. His teachers have been: Tryggvi Baldvinsson, Dr. Úlfar Ingi Haraldsson, Bent Sørensen, Hans Abrahamsen, Juliana Hodkinson, Jeppe Just Christensen and Niels Rosing Schow.

Jomi Massage, currently also working under the artist name JOMI, is a musician, composer, artist and writer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Currently active around the highly acclaimed danish album LYST, with singles "Byen som cirkler", the consent song "JaNejMåske" and heartbreaking "Knust kompas". Also eternal current seem to be the track "A fake start is life", being the theme song for Via Play series "Den som dræber/Those who kill".

www.jomi.nu
www.facebook.com/jomimassage
www.instagram.com/jomimassage

Released by Glorious Records & The Being Music

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