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Johanna Sulkunen is a Finnish experimental jazz vocalist, composer, and improviser based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has released and produced four critically acclaimed albums on her own name and several others in collaboration with others. She a part of the award-winning improv. vocal ensemble IKI. In 2018 she launched the experimental solo project Sonority, and ever since the symbiosis of vocals and electronics has been at the center of her career. She has co-operated, with iconic jazz & improv musicians as well as worked on various interdisciplinary projects, collaborating with dancers, poets, and filmmakers and with electronic musicians. Originally labeled as an exciting voice on the alternative jazz scene, Sulkunen has expanded her range of work to span everything from jazz to free improvisation, electronic music, neo-classical, and avantgarde. Her latest album Terra (2022) was nominated as the Jazz Album of the Year in Danish Music Awards. She is soon to release her next album, the third part of the trilogy Sonority. 

kortkritik
25.10.2020

Musikformidling med fikse idéer

DR2: »Her er dit hit«
Carsten Holm og L.O.C. © Thomas Behrndtz/DR
Carsten Holm og L.O.C. © Thomas Behrndtz/DR

Holdet bag DR’s nye musikprogram – der højst usædvanligt faktisk handler om musik – når lige at balancere på kanten af det fortænkte i første afsnit om L.O.C.-baskeren »Frk. Escobar« (2005).

Pligtskyldigt og overfortolkende analyseres temamelodien af en jazzkomponist ved flyglet, studentikost blæser vært Carsten Holm en skoleopgave om lyrikkens »dualitet« op på en containervæg, og fordi hjerneforskeren må være på hurtigkald hos alle kulturredaktioner, får Peter Vuust også lov at fortælle en anekdote om savlende hunde.

L.O.C. griner måbende hver gang, men bærer heldigvis over med redaktionens fikse idéer, tager engageret invitationen til musikalsk næranalyse op, og pludselig sidder rapperen og siger »crescendo« i bedste sendetid lørdag aften. Det er faktisk ret godt gået i sidste ende.

Lad dette være startskuddet til mere lydnær musikformidling på de store medier, også gerne af den mere kritiske slags end her.