albums
2 0 _ 1 4 T R I O 1 ( 2 0 2 4 )
Recorded live at ny lille klub as part of the 20_14 curated series of double bills on floor "caregiving assembly" fall 2023. w this improv leading into first florence sinclair show in copenhagen on oct 20. special times 4 sure
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Lil Lacy (cello)
Aase Nielsen (synth)
Rune Kielsgaard (recording, production, drums)
Review in PassiveAggressive by Claus Haxholm
M E U F v o l u m e 2 ( 2 0 2 4 )
19 remarkable female musicians on the Nordic experimental music scene have created new music together in 9 different new constellations, which makes up the MEUF vollume 2 album. This is the second compilation in a new annual tradition on the initiative of musician and composer Maria Dybbroe. It is a multi-coloured and multi-faceted album that takes you on a journey into the endless possibilities of music to experience new things and be amazed.
The background for the release is to provide a platform for releasing brand new exciting music that reaches into the future, as well as to focus on the thriving scene for experimental music with its many and diverse female voices. The hope is also to provide an opportunity for female musicians to start completely new musical collaborations, and in this way forge new ties between female artists in the Nordics, who, due to their minority in the music industry, do not always meet as many colleagues who, by virtue of their gender reminds of themselves.
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Camilla Hole (soprano saxophone)
Maria Dybbroe (composer)
Ly Tran (voice)
Guro Kvifte Nesheim (hardanger d'amore)
Kirstine Lindemann (composition)
Lisa Marie Vogel (viola)
Bettina Ezaki (violin)
Astrid Garmo (hardingfele, tramping)
Michaela Antalová (drums)
Sarah Buchner (voice, flute and electronics)
Andrea S. Giordano (voice, flute and electronics)
Amalie Dahl (alto saxophone)
Ornella Noulet (alto saxophone)
Sofie Norling (vocals and electronics)
Michala Østergaard-Nielsen (percussion and bow)
Michala Turcerová (field recordings)
Lone Aagot Meinich (field recordings)
Lil Lacy (cello, voice & electronics)
Jenny Berger Myhre (piano, electronics and field recordings)
Article in Passive/Aggressive about the record release on March 8th 2024
F R A G M E N T E R A F E N D A N S ( 2 0 2 4 )
“Fragmenter af en Dans” (“Fragments of a Dance”) is a live concert album performed by Stundom and Jonas Frølund performing compositions by Béla Bartók, Bent Sørensen, Carl Nielsen, Vagn Holmboe & Lil Lacy. Two music worlds meet when the clarinet-virtuoso Jonas Frølund and the awardwinning folk music trio Stundom play music together. The album is a recording from their debut concert as a quartet, recorded by the Danish Radio in the summer of 2023.
The piece “Længsel” (“Longing”) is composed specifically to Stundom & Frølund by the Danish / American composer Lil Lacy.
“I HAVEN” is an album by frk. jacobsen - a solo project by Anja Jacobsen, started in 2013 with critically acclaimed EP Lobsters, followed by the album Thin Dry Sticks in 2018.
The musicians Lil Lacy (keys, cello, choir), Ida Duelund (bass) and Lars Bech Pilgaard (guitar) play alongside Anja Jacobsen (drums, percussion, lead vocal) on the album.
The tracks unfold like scenes from a play - in the garden, on the forest floor, by the cherry tree and at the field, interrupted by an intermezzo into the future. A heifer calf transforms into a stone, a woman ages suddenly - frk. jacobsen mixes musical experiments with cosmic excursions and thought material from Antiquity. “Being in a garden is like being in a magical place where things arise and transform. The garden - an interior and exterior space going through an almost magical transformation every spring”, Anja Jacobsen says about the new album.
U N D E R O V E R G A N G - E T A U D I T I V T A F T R Y K ( 2 0 2 1 )
Audio piece and publication by William Kudahl and Lil Lacy in collaboration
Performed by
William Kudahl – walk and recording
Lil Lacy – cello, voice and music composition
Morten Lohmann Sønderskov Jensen – clarinet and bass clarinet
Golshid Rokhzan – triangel
Under Transition - an auditive imprint (English title) is a sound art piece and publication with text and photographs from the tunnels underneath the Psychiatric Hospital in Risskov, Aarhus, Denmark, recorded from 2017-2018, before the hospital closed and moved to new locations in November 2018.
Visual: Asbjørn Sand – photos and Olga Regitze – graphic design
Released by Antipyrine. The piece is part of the permanent exhibition at Museum Ovartaci.
Performed by Bjarke Mogensen, accordion
Composed by Lil Lacy
Released by Orchid Classics, 2020
Windborne is inspired by the feeling of being lifted up by the air, windborne; moving from the ground, upwards, sensing the streams of air lifting you, listening to the silence of riding with the wind, little by little, further and further up... In Danish the title 'Løftet af vinden' refers to being lifted by the wind, but it also has another connotation; the promise of the wind.
L I V E I N J A P A N ( 2 0 2 0 )
Performed by Soma & Lil
Soma Allpass: cello and Lil Lacy: cello, piano and vocal
- with generous support from: Yoshio Machida: steel drums (track 5) and
Haruhiko Okabe: saxophone and hichiriki; an ancient Japanese oboe (track 3, 4, 7 and 10).
The album was recorded during a 3-week tour of Japan in October 2018 and consists of excerpts of concerts played in different venues, as well as field recordings of nature, train rides and places visited.
The music consists of improvisations inspired by the journey, landscape, people and not least Gagaku music - a collage of impressions of Japan, expressed in sounds and tones woven together.
Recorded by Morimoto Ali, Takenaga Shogo, Kawamura Hiroshi, Shinohara Shinsuke and Lil Lacy
Produced by Soma & Lil. Supported by KODA culture. Released by Gateway Music.
A L T I D S A M M E N ( 2 0 1 9 )
All songs performed by Efterklang with contributions from a.o.
Siv Øyunn Kjenstad: drums (track 2,6)
Victor Dybbroe: percussion (track 4,5,6,7)
Kliður: choir (track 2,7,9)
Lil Lacy: vocals (track 5,7)
Christian Balvig: synth (track 7)
Gunnar Halle: trumpet solo (track 7)
All songs written by Efterklang except Uden ansigt written by Rune Mølgaard & Efterklang
Produced by Efterklang - track 1,2,4,5,6,7,9 co-produced by Kasper Winding
T H I N D R Y S T I C K S ( 2 0 1 8 )
Performed by Frk. Jacobsen, the solo project of Anja Jacobsen.
The music is composed by Anja Jacobsen (vocal, drums, keyboards). Throughout most of the album a band is playing, consisting of Lars Bech Pilgaard (guitar), Lil Lacy (keyboards, choir, cello) and Nicolai Kaas Claesson (bass, cello) - all contributing with personal flare and creative musicalities.
“Thin Dry Sticks” explores a field of musical and emotional tensions - between earthbound realistic settings and cosmic abstractions, between ancient Greece and 2018 Copenhagen life as well as melodic pop notions and sonic experimentation. Like a playful journey through different times and situations, the album is an ode to the poetic and surreal moments that often mingle with everyday life or dreams, e.g. the song “Doublo”. Here a windy bike ride through Copenhagen is interupted by the incomprihensible experience of being two humans in one body.
B Å N D M A G A S I G N E T n o 2 ( 2 0 1 8 )
Performed by various artists; Lil Lacy & Golshid Rokhzan, Anna Wærum, Syvende og Sidst, dummykopf, Kristoffer Raasted, Fritjof Nørretranders, Theodor Nymark, Pernille Zidore, Marie Louise Buch & Anja Tietze Lahrmann, union for open vocalism, Sonja LaBianca.
Båndmagasinet is a tape-magazine for sound recordings and experiments that exist in less traditional medias or formats and that therefor could be a challenge to find relevant forms of musical distribution. Båndmagasinet is made by the label Resonans in a collaboration with AUT (Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere) and premiered on the radio station: The Lake Radio. The tape-magazine is curated by Asger Kudahl, William Kudahl and Jan Høgh Stricker.
L A N D E T / R U M M E T ( 2 0 1 6 )
Performed by Soma & Lil
Soma Allpass (cello, vokal og percussion)
Lil Lacy (cello, vokal og percussion)
Improvisations and compositions.
“Blowtorch beauty... A record or whole piece, which will not leave you in peace.
Agonizing, obsessive and with a deeply personal expression, where the boundless leads the way.”
- review (in Danish) by Torben Holleufer in Gaffa (5 out of 6 stars)
Performed by Klimaforandringer
Lars Bech Pilgaard (guitar, vocal, compositions)
Rasmus Kjær (keyboards), Peter Skibsted (vocal, bass)
Rune Lohse (vocal, drums), Anders Vestergaard (drums)
Taus Bregnhøj (guitar), Lil Lacy (vocal, cello)
”Ånder” contains a highly eclectic blend of african streetmusic, complex guitar-riffs, etheric keyboards and trancending drum rhythms with elements of western noiserock and naive, melancholic vocals.
The lyrics revolves around universal human problems and is highly inspired of the simple african way of building poetry.
Made by Luke Bennet & Anders Lauge Meldgaard
Composed and arranged by Anders Lauge Meldgaard
Performed by Anders Lauge Meldgaard (vocal, synth, sampler, guitar, percussion, game of life and more), Svend Rump (bassoon), Bjarke Valentin (trombone), Kirsten Pind (flute), Nils Grøndahl (violin), Kristian Tangvik (tuba), Mette Termansen (oboe), Mads Forsby (percussion), Marie Eline Hansen (vocal), Anja Jacobsen (vocal), Lil Lacy (vocal), Awinbeh Ayagiba (vocal), Kasper Them Larsen (vocal) and Christian Davidsen (vocal). Anders Lauge Meldgaard is the real name of the man behind Frisk Frugt. He is coming out of the experimental music collective yoyooyoy, based in Berlin and CPH. With which he in over a decade have been involved with numerous music and art projects.
A R T I F I C I A L M O O N L I G H T S ( 2 0 1 4 )
Performed by Travelling Tribes
Emil Jensen (vocal, guitar, gamelan a.o.)
Anders Filipsen (vocal, keybards, gamelan a.o.)
Victor Dybbroe (percussion, drums, gamelan a.o.)
Lil Lacy (vocal, cello, keyboards, gamelan a.o.)
"The debut record was one of the rare ones. Now comes the challenging second album, or not, when you work whith four musicians of such inner quality. Combined with the balanced distance to the details, that makes tones and ideas align as day-dreams that gather complete to one”
- review (in Danish) of Artificial Moonlights, by Torben Holleufer, GAFFA
The album received a Danish Music Award (2015)
Performed by Valby Vokalgruppe
Anja Jacobsen (vocal, keyboards, percussion)
Cæcilie Trier (vocal, keyboards)
Sonja LaBianca (vocal, keyboards, sax)
Lil Lacy (vocal, keyboards)
The group was created in 2008 by Anja Jacobsen as an experiment out in the possibilities of the voice. With time Valby Vokalgruppe started integrating instruments in the music, through the voice is still at the center of each composition.
E V E R Y T H I N G S E E M S T O C H A N G E ( 2 0 1 2 )
Performed by Travelling Tribes
Emil Jensen (vocal, guitar, trumpet)
Anders Filipsen (vocal, keybards)
Victor Dybbroe (percussion, drums)
Lil Lacy (vocal, cello, keyboards)
"Everything Seems to Change in not an ordinary world album. Here the four musicians in Travelling Tribes combine traditional world music with modern indie. And they get away with it quite well."
- review (in Danish) of Everything Seems to Change, by Anne Nørkjær Bang, Undertoner
The album received a Danish Music Award (2013)