ensembles

Valby Vokalgruppe

Valby Vokalgruppe was founded as an experiment in 2008 by Anja Jacobsen. Valby Vokalgruppe is Lil Lacy, Sonja LaBianca, Cæcilie Trier and Anja Jacobsen. The members of the group are active on the Danish and international music scene as composers in projects like Selvhenter, CTM, Soma & Lil, Frk. Jacobsen and Sonja LaBianca.

Valby Vokalgruppe has played at various venues, museums and festivals throughout Europe including Roskilde Festival, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Click Festival, Arken Museum of Modern Art (DK), Göteborg Art Sound Festival, Skissarnas Museum (SE), CC No 1 Festival in Berlin (DE) and Ancienne Belgique in Brussels (BE).

Anja Jacobsen (vocal, perc, keys), Sonja LaBianca (vocal, keys, sax), Cæcilie Trier (vocal, keys) & Lil Lacy (vocal, keys) // www.egetvaerelse.dk

frk. jacobsen

frk. jacobsen is a solo project by Danish drummer-percussionist-vocalist-composer Anja Jacobsen, co-founder of the artist collective and label Eget Værelse (referencing Virginia Woolf’s seminal essay A Room of One’s Own), and known from the bands Selvhenter and Valby Vokalgruppe. I Haven (In the garden in Danish) is the third album of frk. Jacobsen and concludes three years of work that involved the staged concert I/O -en koncert i 9 scener’ (‘I/O – a concert in 9 scenes) in the 2021 edition of the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, with dramaturg Sara Hamming and graphic artist Sara Laub where the text was projected as the libretto in an opera, and the lines that were sung, and used as directing remarks during instrumental pieces.

I Haven, like previous works of frk. Jacobsen, Lobsters and Thin Dry Sticks (Eget Værelse, 2013 and 2018), invites the listener into Jacobsen’s highly imaginative and colorful music world. She composed the music and the lyrics, now staged like a theatrical, cosmic-psychedelic experience in a magical garden where all things arise and transform, as in the natural seasons. From being on the forest floor, by the cherry tree to the field, where you can meet a heifer calf transformed into a stone, or a woman that ages suddenly, as all are interrupted by a few intermezzos into the future but incorporating ideas from the ancient world.

The gentle, emotional vocal delivery of Jacobsen, as well as her seductive and hypnotic rhythmic patterns, are embraced beautifully by the sublime guitar work of Lars Bech Pilgaard, the untimely, vintage keyboards of Lil Lacy and the driving bass playing of Ida Duelund. I Haven unfolds like a play that defies the borders between music, theater, poetry and performance, stressing the unique and rare musical imagination and vision of Jacobsen that has an immediate, uplifting impact on the listener’s imagination and calls for repeated listening that may explore more secrets of this magical garden. I Haven is released as a limited-edition, environmentally-friendly vinyl (where you can find the text of the songs) with a download option.

Review of I HAVEN by Eyal Hareuveni in salt peanuts*

Anja Jacobsen (drums, perc, lead vocal), Lil Lact (keys, cello, choir vocal), Ida Duelund (bass), Lars Bech Pilgaard (guitar)

www.egetvaerelse.dk

solo

Lil Lacy (vocal, cello, keys)
Primarily creating, recording and performing music solo for audio visual performances, installation, theater, film, fashion or dance performances.

Soma & Lil

Soma Allpass (cello, vocal) & Lil Lacy (cello, vocal)

Soma & Lil is a cello duo consisting of Soma Allpass and Lil Lacy exploring the sound of strings with effect pedals.
They have toured Scandinavia and Japan and done collaborations with among others visual artist Ulrik Heltoft (DK), Ann Sophie von Bülow (DK), Sylvia Nicolaides (GR) and Nicolas Iordanau (GR), dancer Merete Smedegaard (DK), scenographer and director Jon R. Skulberg (NO) and musician Haruhiko Okabe (JP) - exploring the ancient Japanese music tradition of Gagaku.

Travelling Tribes

Emil Jensen (vocal, guitar), Anders Filipsen (vocal, keys), Victor Dybbroe (perc, drums) & Lil Lacy (vocal, cello, keys)

Double Danish Music Award winner for their albums Everything Seems to Change (2013) and Artificial Moonlights (2015)
Travelling Tribes used inspiration from all around the world to make their music, unison singing, Chinese cello melodies, African drums, whistling choral parts, atmospheric keyboards and noise guitar. Travelling Tribes stopped as an active band in 2016.

"Everything Seems to Change er ikke bare en almindelig worldudgivelse. Her kombinerer de fire danske musikere i Travelling Tribes nemlig traditionel verdensmusik med moderne indie. Og det slipper de ganske godt fra." anmeldelse af Everything Seems to Change, Anne Nørkjær Bang, Undertoner

"Debuten var en plade af de sjældne. Nu kommer den svære toer, det vil sige: ikke så svær, når man råder over fire musikere med betydelig indre rigdom. Samt med den distance til tingene, der gør, at toner og idéer falder som strøtanker og samles til et hele." anmeldelse af Artificial Moonlights, Torben Holleufer, GAFFA

Klimaforandringer

Klimaforandringer is, with its pulsating afro-rock, like an enfant terrible of world music. Connecting sounds of kraut, psychedelic rock, West African poly rhythms and Arabic harmonies, to Indian drones, transcendental guitars of the 70ies and naïve auto-tune experiments. All delivered in a densely groovy and intense musical collaboration and playfulness, especially when the ensemble perfom live with two drummers and two guitarists.

Lars Bech Pilgaard (guitar, vocal, compositions), Rasmus Kjær (keys), Peter Skibsted (vocal, bass), Rune Lohse (vocal, drums), Anders Vestergaard (drums), Taus Bregnhøj (guitar) & Lil Lacy (vocal, cello) // Debut record Ånder (2015) // Facebook link