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.
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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.
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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.
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