SELVHENTER (DK) - Jazz Live, 09.12.2013x

Selvhenter

Anja Jacobsen (drums)
Jaleh Negari (drums)
Maria Bertel (trombone)
Sonja LaBianca (saxophone)

archaic, minimalistic, energetic jazz

The Danish all-women Selvhenter quintet (often a quartet in live performance) may be the most exciting outfit to emerge from Scandinavia in recent years. This band, part of the art collective eget værelse and the alternative scene of Copenhagen, has alreadt been active for five years, performing with influential outfits like the Swedish-Norwegian trio The Thing and Japanese drummer Yasuhiro Yoshigaki's Orquesta libre. Selvhenter honed a sound all its own—an uncompromising, boundless energetic one that blends the aesthetics of experimental rock, the sophistication of improvised free jazz and the aggressiveness of punk, noise and metal, all performed with passion and humor, sometimes even as music fit for dancing.

from http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=43253#.UksyVn9hVph

"an absolute rockin' danish outfit using material from extreme noise, free jazz and creative rock to build a sound and energy that is giving new perspectives on alternative music! gushing and pumping drums that interacts with the distorted trombone and lays the fundament for the sax to move and create within. inyourface and without compromises – using poetic beauty and complex structures as building blocks for their music." - MATS GUSTAFSSON

wow! and we had always thought of "NOISE" as the last resort of a miserable musical masculinity - less an actual genre, but a sad place, inhabited by not necessarily nice-smelling and beer-drinking fellas. how wrong were we: the danish all-female quartet SELVHENTER (normally they are five, but the violinist is currently taking a baby break) completely blew us away when seeing their powerful and positive performances at MUSIC UNLIMITED and at CC N°1 festivals in WELS and BERLIN respectively: explosive textures are being provided by the horns, both being played through huge amplifiers and a variety of foot pedals to guarantee a maximum of distortion, a massive sound being propelled by the two powerhouse drummers who sometimes sound like SANDY NELSON on steroids (no horsemeat jokes here, please). this is not for the faint at heart, but probably the future sound of JAZZ to come.