Jazz Articles about Selvhenter

Selvhenter: Frk. B. Fricka

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 7, 2012

The Danish all-women Selvhenter quintet (often a quartet in live performance) may be the most exciting outfit to emerge from Scandinavia in recent years. This band, part of the art collective eget værelse and the alternative scene of Copenhagen, has alreadt been active for five years, performing with influential outfits like the Swedish-Norwegian trio The Thing and Japanese drummer Yasuhiro Yoshigaki's Orquesta libre. Selvhenter honed a sound all its own--an uncompromising, boundless energetic one that blends the aesthetics of experimental ...