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New Album out “Portrait – Kontrabass”.

The music is on this album meant to work as a soundtrack for your daily work, meditation or relaxing. It is played solo by my self on my 275 year old kontrabass, without any additional overdubs or looping. Read more – ‘New Album out “Portrait – Kontrabass”.’.

New Release from Violet R!ver

Nordic raga meets middle east elegance Having their roots in jazz, folk & electronic soundscapes, Violet River creates a flow of pulsing abstractions. This can be visualized like the water in the river passing by at different times of the day/week/month. Read more – ‘New Release from Violet R!ver’.

October 27th, 2011 – eBook concert in collaboration with Wundergrund & Global Units @ Pumpehuset

In collaboration with Wundergrund and Global Untis, we are playing a VAP Concert (Visual Audio Poesi) during "spil dansk dagen". The program for the night look like this: 1.set: Lone Hørslev, Jeppe Just Christensen, & Thomas Bjørkå 2. set: Global Unit artists: T.S.Høeg, Casper Øbro, Søren Raagaard & August Engkilde Read more – ‘October 27th, 2011 – eBook concert in collaboration with Wundergrund & Global Units @ Pumpehuset’.

Video from the Shanghai World Expo 2010 performance

This is the video documentation of the "August Engkilde & Global Units" performance in the Danish Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo May 26th. 2010, by August Engkilde & Global Units. The performance featured, Yan Jun: Feedback Sounds, Tao Yi: Drums, Casper Øbro: Video drawing, and August Engkilde: Bass, Melodica and Sampler. Read more – ‘Video from the Shanghai World Expo 2010 performance’.

Interview at Spisa.org

Spisa har bokat August Engkilde, en av Danmarks mest framstående mulitinstrumtalister, till after work scenen på Stockholms festivalen den 10:de augusti klockan 18.00. Denne vår favoritdansk har spelat musik sedan 6 års ålder och beskriver sitt behov av att uttrycka sig musikaliskt i termer närliggande ett beroende. ”Jeg kan ikke lade vær. Jeg bliver rastløs når jeg er for langt væk fra musikken.”
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Video from brumtone night in Graz Austria Oct. 27th. 2010

October 24th. 2010 We play a brumtone/Global Units show At Postgarden Graz in Austria. Richard Einger should have joined us as well but he got sick, so we had to do some solo improvisation as well. Read more – ‘Video from brumtone night in Graz Austria Oct. 27th. 2010’.

Global Units concert video from Shanghai – Fudan University May 28th. 2010.

May 28th. 2010 we played a Global Units show at Fudan University/Nordic Center in Shanghai. It was a beautifull evening out-door concert in the garden of Fudan. In collaboration with Yan Jun, Tao Yi, Jun Yan, Justin Sebastian and Casper Øbro we feeded out ambient as well as explosive sound scapes and airborn light handdrawings, to a crowd of 800 entusiastic ung people. Read more – ‘Global Units concert video from Shanghai – Fudan University May 28th. 2010.’.

Interview in Geiger about global units

I made an interview to the Geiger magazine march 2011 edition about the global units project. You can read it here. Or read it below - sorry, only in Danish, try the google translater if you need a translation.

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global units concerts releases

I participate as a live composer and multi-instrumentalist on a series of concert releases from the global units copenhagen sessions.

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Video from the Athelas New Music Festival June 3rd. 2011.

This is a piece played live at the Athelas New Music Festival, June 3rd. 2011, at "Republique". Copenhagen. The concert was a collaboration between the festival, "Wundergrund" and Global Units.
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