Danish Jazzbands, DJ's and Sound Artists hit the Scene in Brazil
New Round of Dinâmica Dinamarquesa Concerts
Savassi Festival, Jazz Ahead, Multiplicidade and Green Sunset are all great jazz and electronic music events in Brazil and always with top international artists. This year the concert programme is also including the Danish bands Phronesis, Astro Buddha Agogo and DJ Taragana Pyrajama, which are some of the performers that have been selected for the Danish music project Dinâmica Dinamarquesa.
Later this fall, the Danish artists Thomas Knak, Kenneth Bager, Who made Who, When Saints Go Machine, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen and Jacob Kirkegaard will take the stage in Brazil.
Dinâmica Dinamarquesa is intended to promote the music scene of Denmark to a broad audience in Brazil. The initiative serves as a bridge for mutual long-lasting collaborations between artists of the two countries.
Danish jazz musicians and performers of electronic music and sound art are at the moment showing their creativity and originality around the world. Several bands perform on a regular basis through Europe and Asia and now in South America.
Singers like Medina, Aura, and Ida Corr are already doing quite successfully in the United States, Great Britain and Germany. Artists like Trentemøller, Efterklang and guitarist Jakob Bro travel around the world producing music of the highest quality.
The project Dinâmica Dinamarquesa was created in 2012 from a collaboration between the Danish Cultural Institute and Rasmus Schnack, with the participation of two of the music organizations in Denmark – Music Export Denmark (MXD) and JazzDanmark.
In 2014, focus has shifted to include the musical world of sound art and also for co-productions of artists from different countries. With this new focus the Danish institution SNYK, which develop the sound art and experimental music scene in Denmark, came into the project as well. Besides the financial support of SNYK, JazzDanmark and MXD, the project has funding by the Danish Arts Council.
Music collaboration
The project has a strong local anchoring through musician and project manager Anders Hentze, who is in charge of tours and workshops in Brazil.
”The close collaboraton with the Danish Cultural Institute in Rio makes it possible to create a strong, collective Danish music promotion across genres and art forms. For JazzDanmark, ROSA and SNYK the strong local achoring of the project gives a unique possibility to establish a long-term focus on Danish music in Brazil.” Says Thorbjørn Tønder Hansen, Director of SNYK.
During the tours in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the Danish musicians are paricipating in music collaborations with Brazilian musicians and producers together with workshop sessions for students at the music conservatory in Rio or at schools in the favelas.
Main partners for Dinâmica Dinamarquesa in 2014 are Centro Cultural São Paulo, which is a major center of culture and leisure in São Paulo, the curator Batman Zavareze, creator of the festival of audiovisual performances in Rio de Janeiro, known as Multiplicidade, Savassi Festival in Belo Horizonte, which is a pioneer in showing the jazz tradition and the producer Marcos Guzman known for electronic events, especially Green Sunset i São Paulo.
The selection of Danish artists for this year’s Dinâmica Dinamarquesa concerts has been chosen by Batman Zavarese, Marco Guzman and Bruno Goghler, owner of Savassi Festival.
One of the artists, who has carried on with the contacts in Brazil after the Dinâmica Dinamarquesa concerts, is the guitarist Jakob Bro. In 2013 Jakob Bro Trio gave 7 concerts in Brazil and had a music collaboration with the Brazilian DJ Anderson Noise. Together with good promotion contacts, this created the foundation for a new concert tour in 2014.
For further information, please contact: Director of the Danish Cultural Institute in Brazil, Maibrit Thomsen: mai@dinacultura.org or Director of SNYK, Thorbjørn Tønder Hansen: thorbjorn@snyk.dk
Follow the project and concert tour on www.dinadina.net
Besides financial support from SNYK, JazzDanmark and MXD, Dinâmica Dinamarquesa is financed by the Danish Arts Council. In Brazil the project is supported by the Savassi Festival, Multiplicidade, Green Sunset, Jazz Ahead and Centro Cultural São Paulo.
