VALBY VOKALGRUPPE
New album SOLIDS FOR VOICES coming out soon!
RELEASE CONCERT at Alice (Copenhagen) on Nov 7th!
On November 7th 2025 Hands in the Dark will release the new album SOLIDS FOR VOICES by Valby Vokalgruppe.
The album is kindly supported by Koda Kultur and MPO.
VALBY VOKALGRUPPE - SOLIDS FOR VOICES (LP), black vinyl
Limited edition of 300 copiesCat.# HITD 076
Release date: 7th November 2025
Valby Vokalgruppe returns with SOLIDS FOR VOICES — a new album landing on 7th November 2025 via Hands in the Dark.
Initiated in 2008 by Anja Jacobsen, the Danish collective’s current line-cup is completed by Lil Lacy, Sonja LaBianca, Cæcilie Trier and Laura Marie Madsen. The group has written and performed a large number of cross-aesthetic pieces over the years, including an album Bah New Era released in 2012 on Eget Værelse.
Sharpened to its core, the group dives deep into rhythmical architectures built almost solely from the voice - think Platonic solids reimagined as sound objects. Think trance without electronics. These new compositions are compressed, sparkling forms — vocal geometries that spin, collide, and dissolve through repetition. From inside the circle: radical precision, soft dissonance, and playful intuition guide the way. The group explores the voice not as melody alone, but as material — vibrating, modulating, refracting.
SOLIDS FOR VOICES transcends into deep concentration calling for a clear state of mind, in recognition of an increasingly fragmented and incoherent reality. Valby Vokalgruppe endeavours a total absorption into the voice, the rhythm and the trance.
About the band:
Anja Jacobsen is the leader of Valby Vokalgruppe, sometimes the main composer, at other times the initiator of collective compositional processes. In 2008 she took the initiative to begin a series of vocal explorations with 8 singers meeting regularly at Christianshavns Beboerhus in Copenhagen. Together, the group developed a music centered around rhythms and voices - transcending into another state. These explorations eventually turned into Valby Vokalgruppe, which has gone through multiple transformations over the years and started at some point to integrate other instruments, primarily keyboards as an extension of - or an artificial “effect” on - the voices.
The Copenhagen based members of the group are all active composers and musicians, either as individual performers or in projects such as CTM, a, frk. jacobsen, ilinx, Selvhenter, Sonja LaBianca, Lil Lacy, LM Madsen and SOLW.
Valby Vokalgruppe collectively composed four large cross-aesthetic pieces, some of which included texts from theatrical plays, projection of texts on the walls, dancers and classical singers - a.o. “Dada i dag” (Dada today), performed at Arken Museum of Modern Art in 2014, “Harmony of the Exospheres”, and the follow up “Bølger af tid og rum” (Waves of time and space), both premiered at Click Festival in Elsinore (Helsingør) in 2016 and 2018. In 2022 Valby Vokalgruppe composed music for the performance lecture “Usynlig arkæologi - Dianakultens mysterier” (Invisible archeology - the mysteries of the cult of Diana), premiered at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. With their new album SOLIDS FOR VOICES - to be released in autumn 2025 - Valby Vokalgruppe has returned to its root, exploring voices and rhythms.
Icosahedral
Dodecahedral
Monastère de Ségriès 19-fold axis
Delfisk Hymne
Prime Solid
M (Spejling)
Point of Departure
O
Lille Kommune Tribute
Twelve Pentagons
Octahedral
Degrees of Freedom
Skull Piece
Cæcilie Trier - Voice
Sonja LaBianca - Voice
Lil Lacy - Voice
Anja Jacobsen - Voice, keyboard, percussion
Anders Lauge Meldgaard - New Ondomo (Dodecahedral)
Mette Hommel - Flute (Prime Solid)
Arrangements - Valby Vokalgruppe
Recorded at ‘Studiet på Frederiksberg’ by Peter Barnow
Mix - Aske Zidore
Mastering - Antoine Richard
cut - Anne Taegert (Dubplates & Mastering)
Photos - Josefine Seifert
Artwork - Anja Jacobsen
Graphic design - Sara Laub
With support from MPO & Koda’s Cultural Funds
Hands in the Dark 2025
Compositions:
-19-fold axis, O, M (Spejling) and Degrees of Freedom composed by Valby Vokalgruppe.
-Delfisk Hymne composed by Athénaios Athenaíou who inscribed it on a stone in Delphi in 128 BC.
-Monastère de Ségriès composed by Zoé Perret, Yann Hunziker, Fanny Perrier-Rochas and Anja Jacobsen, created for ‘Symphonie de Ségriès’ 2024, by invitation from Vincent Moon.
-Icosahedral, Dodecahedral, Prime Solid, Point of Departure, Lille Kommune Tribute, Twelve Pentagons, Octahedral and Skull Piece composed by Anja Jacobsen.