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VALBY VOKALGRUPPE






Photo: Emmanuelle Bayart






Valby Vokalgruppe 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.








Photo: Emmanuelle Bayart






The members of Valby Vokalgruppe are Lil Lacy, Sonja LaBianca, Laura Marie Madsen, Anja Jacobsen and Cæcilie Trier who is taking a temorary break from live concerts.



VIDEO - SOLIDS FOR VOICES

SOLIDS FOR VOICES - album

VIDEO - Open Road
VIDEO - HARMONY OF THE EXOSPHERES - exerpts
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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 composers/performers or in projects such as CTM, a, frk. jacobsen, ilinx, Selvhenter, 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 the SOLIDS FOR VOICES - released in autumn 2025 - Valby Vokalgruppe has returned to its root, exploring voices and rhythms.






 


Photo: Emmanuelle Bayart