Meet GNOM, the forthcoming solo project of Anders Bach, and hear how an ethereally ambient album developed into a noisy and extreme musical expression shaped by tragedy. Confronting grief, his approach to making music went from intellectual and subtle to musically clear and deeply personal. His album “Bitumenic” releases June 9th.
To begin with, the first sketches for the album were spiritual and abstract. By first adding physical drums, he connected to a feral instinct and a melodic emotionality. He worked with Fire-Toolz aka. Angel Marcloid, further driving the album in a direction resonating with Anders' explosive emotional proces. It became an album that emphasizes and embraces the pleasure part of "guilty pleasure", expressing joy in the face of fear or even death.
Produced by Louise Tandrup Esbensen
Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and The Augustinus Foundation
TRACKLIST:
GNOM - This Strain Of The Self (feat. Fire-Toolz)
GNOM - Unreleased sketch
GNOM - Unreleased sketch
GNOM - Unreleased sketch
GNOM - Coagulate
GNOM - Hark Hark! The Lark Does Liquesce
Fire-Toolz - It is Happening Again (Thank You, Council Of Saturn!)
GNOM - This Strain Of The Self (feat. Fire-Toolz)
GNOM - O Is For Obedience
GNOM - Coagulate
GNOM - Sister: Let Hel Hold What She Has
GNOM - The Bile
GNOM - Entry Plug, The Vessel Of The Heart
GNOM - Foot (feat. Seiðr)
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Meet Carolyn Goodwin
Meet composer and clarinetist Carolyn Goodwin, founder of Copenhagen Clarinet Choir, and hear her musical origin story in both words and sounds. She originally studied classical saxophone and played new compositions. Later in life, she discovered improvised music.
She talks about her methods of composing for improvisation, such as defining simple ideas as musical spaces to move through and explore in sequence, like the life of a newly hatched bird growing from whisper songs to singing in flight. Improvisation, to Carolyn, is about listening, working with subtle textures, nuances, and overtones, discovering the limit of what her instrument can do, and also discovering the power to take whatever is encountered in the musical space and sending it new directions.
Produced by Mei Bao
Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and The Augustinus Foundation
TRACKLIST:
Copenhagen Clarinet Choir - Organism
Clang Sayne - Curse You Mocking Moon
Copenhagen Clarinet Choir - Flocking, Part 1
Copenhagen Clarinet Choir - Flocking, Part 2
Copenhagen Clarinet Choir - Hive Mind
Copenhagen Clarinet Choir - Water Piece
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Meet Debbie Sings
Meet Copenhagen-based musician and producer Debbie Sings. She talks about how her musical project is a learning process through copying and sampling, trial and error, creating a chaotic output of different inspirations, contrasts and extremes.
Learning how to make music with a computer freed and empowered her to do whatever she wanted, creating a universe that both she and her audience can escape into from reality for a while. Not unlike the traditional 50s pop that inspires her like a broken romantic picture of sweet melancholy, her music expresses a happy mood even as the lyrics contain deeper and darker emotions.
Produced by Louise Tandrup Esbensen and Mei Bao
Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and The Augustinus Foundation
TRACKLIST:
Debbie Sings: Satanizer
Debbie Sings: WhOOsh
SOPHIE: Lemonade
Debbie Sings: Godspeed
Bernadette Caroll: Care a Little
Debbie Sings: No Title (Performed at Vegas Livesession)
Debbie Sings: F My Tears Away
Debbie Sings and Jens Aagaard: Kæmpe mix 266
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Meet CHIEF
Meet Copenhagen-based rapper CHIEF who began freestyling as a young teenager. After jumping into her musical career, as she puts it, "it's hard to crawl back into your shy space."
She talks about how politics is at the core of her music, just as it was when hip-hop began in the 80s but also about how emotional vulnerability is coming to the fore.
Produced by Mei Bao
Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and The Augustinus Foundation
TRACKLIST:
Gutter Intelligence
FUCK THA POLICE
Princepel Rebel
Would U Wait ft. Olivia Lincoln
Project Baby
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Meet Peachlyfe
Meet Peachlyfe, the moniker of Petra Skibsted. The Lake Radio talks to them in Berlin about how the city became a place to both develop their musical practice and to explore queer identity.
They talk about immersing themself in club music, leaving a life of jazz and live bands behind in Copenhagen, about working alone and never finishing tracks, and about how electronic music can create spaces for experimenting with gender and sexuality.
Produced by Mei Bao
Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and The Augustinus Foundation
TRACKLIST:
Against All Reason pt. 2
Against All Reason pt. 1
Hot Boi
Cry Boi
Fly Boi
Meet artists and bands who are based in Denmark, but that The Lake Radio thinks should be world famous.
Produced by Mei Bao and Louise Tandrup Esbensen
Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and The Augustinus Foundation