Josh Semans

New Nordic jazz duo Svaneborg Kardyb (pronounced kah-doob) announce Superkilen – their second album for Gondwana Records, after Over Tage (2022) and the EP At Home (2023)

The new album from Danish duo Svaneborg Kardyb – aka Nikolaj Svaneborg (keyboards) and Jonas Kardyb (drums) – is named after a public park in the ethnically diverse Nørrebro district of Copenhagen. This erstwhile strip of waste ground was repurposed by the Superflex art group in the early 2010’s to bring together immigrants and locals in a mood of tolerance and unity. Its title feels emblematic of their music, which, equally inventively, creates space and serenity as a tonic within the tense and cluttered environment of 2020’s living. In the same way that the regeneration project has transformed that neighbourhood, Svaneborg Kardyb have drawn on that positive energy to help instigate changes in their own music.

‘”Superkilen” means “super wedge” in Danish,’ says Nikolaj, who has a studio right next to the park, ‘but it’s a very expressive word, with the connotation of a breakthrough, like taking a piece of wood and cracking it open.’ Jonas completes the picture: ‘It’s like something that insists on being there, something from the outside that comes in, and it will just move forward and you can’t really do anything about it – we had to allow that on this record.’

Support comes from composer, producer and ondes Martenot player Josh Semans.

This is a 14+ show. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

Svaneborg Kardyb + Josh Semans

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