Glad that it’s summer and festival time! We’ll play with IKI at Aarhus Jazz Festival this friday at Langenæs kirke the 3rd of July at 19:30! We’ll play material from our new album BODY.

www.ikivocal.com

Hotel Proforma’s Flammenwerfer @ Grå Hal, Christiania!

FLAMMENWERFER is Hotel Pro Forma’s new music theatre performance created by the directors Kirsten Dehlholm and Marie Dahl, composers, and musicians Blixa Bargeld and Nils Frahm, artist and fashion designer Henrik Vibskov, light designer Jesper Kongshaug, video designer Magnus Pind and sound designer Erik Medeiros. 

On stage are Blixa Bargeld and the award-winning vocal ensemble IKI consisting of Johanna Sulkunen, Guro Tveitnes, Kamilla Kovacs, Randi Pontoppidan and Jullie Hjetland.

Looking foward to this!

Next week I’m happy to present and be involved in two projects at Aarhus! The great venue türkis is hosting a residency where we’ll work with Bjørn Svin, hold two workshops and present our new composition ‘Submerge’ on the 6th of February!

7th of February IKI will present music from the brand new album ‘BODY’

Hope to see you in Aarhus!

Copenhagen Sessions Vol 1 & 2 has been out for some months now!

The album has received fantastic feedback internationally, including a review in The New York City Jazz Record:

“This recently unearthed album… not only marks an intriguing historical context, but the music itself is also gorgeously rendered.”
– Franz Matzner, The New York City Jazz Record, July 2025

MORE to read here:
Esensja (PL) – review

Salt-peanuts (DK) – review

Jazz Views (UK) – review

Laboratorium MF (PL) – review

Donos (PL) – review

Radio France – Au Coeur du Jazz (FR) – album recommendation/airplay

Culture Jazz (FR) – airplay

Jazzthing (DE) – review  

Thank you for all the wonderful reviews:

“With their impressive voices the women of IKI conjure a beauty that is as magical as it is beautiful over the electronic foundations of BODY”. Westzeit (DE) 

“It sounds as if someone has placed a microphone directly inside a nervous system’s electrical impulses”. Seismograf (DK)

“Hypnotic rhythmic pulses, subtle drones and vibrations whirlwinds of etheral voices, a bath of voices laced with syllables meltin into an impressive wall of sound. Simply magnificent.” Inactuelles (FR) 

“BODY is a wondrous listening experience that reveals the freedom and possibilities of the body itself as an instrument.” GONZO (circus) (BE)

Our debut album is released. Vol 2. in the series of Copenhagen sessions with Tomasz Stańko will drop 7th November 2025.

Thank you for the great tour!

Nationalmuseum, Copenhagen – Flagey, Brussels – Bimhaus, Amsterdam – NOSPR, Katowice

Co-organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the international cultural program of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2025.

Johanna Elina Sulkunen voc, Lisa Ullén – piano, Louise Damn Eckhardt – saxophones, flute, Henrik Olsson – guitar and objects, Burkhard Beins – drums and objects. Looking forwrad to working more on the outcome.

Hotel Pro Forma’s ‘Flammenwerfer wins a price for the best musicperformance of the year! We, together with IKI are very happy to be on stage with Blixa Bargeld and performing this beautiful and strong piece.