HEJ JOHANNES is an innovative improv duo focusing on musical conversation. A responsiveness and an interest in each other’s ideas, which have been developed and refined since the start of the collaboration in 2014.
The duo consists of Johannes Gammelgaard on saxophone and Johannes Berg on drums. These two promising young musicians have worked together over the last decade years in many different constellations and played sessions with names such as Rudi Mahall, Liudas Mockunas, Jim Black and most recently Japanese saxophone player Haruhiko Okabe. As a result of these experiences, they have developed a common musical language based on melodic fragments, modal landscapes and abstract sound textures.
In the duo format, there is an almost limitless freedom and at the same time a great responsibility, as the music easily becomes both naked and fragile. It forces the musicians to constantly be aware and make decisions regarding the form and direction of the music.
In January 2020, HEJ JOHANNES released their self titled debut album. Now they are working on new music, developing their common sounds and sensibility.

"It is two musicians who know each other well that meet in an honest and open interplay, which deserves to be heard as good musical storytelling." - Niels Overgård, 14/4 2020

Johannes Gammelgaard: tenor saxophone
Johannes Berg: drums

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