Music

New Album out “Portrait – Kontrabass”.: <a href="http://augustengkilde.bandcamp.com/album/portrait-kontrabass">Portrait - Kontrabass by August Engkilde</a> 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: a href="http://brumtone.bandcamp.com/album/violet-r-ver"Violet R!ver by Violet

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 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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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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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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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’.
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 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’.
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.’.
Live projects & booking: August is currently involved in following live projects that can be booked for festivals, clubs, tours and other collaboration projects. - August Engkilde Solo Bass - August Engkilde solo Live/DJ - TAPTRIO - Violet R!ver - August Engkilde & Global Units - Ljiljana Petkovic Experience Please scroll down to listen to the music from those [...] Read more – ‘Live projects & booking’.
August 13th, 2011 – playing at the global units berlin sessions @ Tenstation – 19:30-23: In collaboration with Urban Peas & global units I play at the global units Berlin sessions at the famous Tentstation in Berlin, near Hauptbahnhof. I will be participating as an artist as well as taking care of audio and video recordings for later documentation on the global units site. Read more – ‘August 13th, 2011 – playing at the global units berlin sessions @ Tenstation – 19:30-23’.
July 16th, 2011 – playing at the global units berlin sessions @ Tenstation – 19:30-23: In collaboration with Urban Peas I play at the global units evening at the famous Tentstation in Berlin, near Hauptbahnhof. I will be participating as an artist as well as taking care of audio and video recordings for later documentation on the global units site. Read more – ‘July 16th, 2011 – playing at the global units berlin sessions @ Tenstation – 19:30-23’.
June 4th, 2011 – DJ’ing at the Athela New Music Festival After Party – 10pm: DANCE MUSIC AUF DEUTSCH! “On the last night of Denmark’s largest festival for contemporary music, we will of course have a party to mark the occasion. Put on your dancing shoes and come celebrate Athelas New Music Festival 2011. And who could be better suited to act as DJ at this party than a man [...] Read more – ‘June 4th, 2011 – DJ’ing at the Athela New Music Festival After Party – 10pm’.
June 4th, 2011 – Performance at the 4 hour festival @ frizone.dk (14-18): In collaboration with Rump Recordings & Jenka Music, global units do a mini 4 hours festival, during the Copenhagen Distortion week. I will help doing the documentation of the festival as well as participating in the first performance at 14 o’clock. Read more about the event here: Read more – ‘June 4th, 2011 – Performance at the 4 hour festival @ frizone.dk (14-18)’.
June 3rd, 2011 – Performance at the Athelas New Music Festival: August Engkilde’s project “GLOBAL PORTRAITS” explores the borderland between composed and improvised music and does so in a way in which music, video and texts all form part of the portrait of a person, a place or a thing. Taking the performance of “Perceptive Constructions” by Århus Sinfonietta as its starting point, August Engkilde and [...] Read more – ‘June 3rd, 2011 – Performance at the Athelas New Music Festival’.
global units – copenhagen sessions – Feb. 2nd, April 3rd, March 4th, May 4th. – 2011: Four global units copenhagen sessions at the liveRec studio in copenhagen. Read more at the global units website. Read more – ‘global units – copenhagen sessions – Feb. 2nd, April 3rd, March 4th, May 4th. – 2011’.
Short info: August Engkilde is a composer, arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, sound-designer and owner of the record label Brumtone. August plays the bass, the keyboards and twists the computer knobs on more than 32 electronic and acoustic releases. The focus is not on one particularly genre but more on a mix of various genres, such as jazz, [...] Read more – ‘Short info’.
Founder and leader of GLOBAL UNITS: I have founded and are the leader of the non profit artist collaboration network GLOBAL UNITS. After some years of small and big upstarting projects related to the global units idea, I finally launched the website and a series of concerts and other collaboration projects starting January 2011. Read more – ‘Founder and leader of GLOBAL UNITS’.
Making the first audio live stream to Facebook: Yesterday we did the first test Live stream of the concert from Jazzhus Montmartre, direct into their facebook profil page, using Noonan-Media technology. It was a great succes, and shows an even great potential! We do it next saturday as well. I do the sound live mix, and have made the contact to Noonan Media [...] Read more – ‘Making the first audio live stream to Facebook’.
Ljiljana Petkovic Orchestra, Austrian Tour, Oct. 2010: PMK, Friday, Oct 22 2010, Innsbruck, Tirol, PMK, 9:00 PM more… / Saturday, Oct 23 2010, St. Johan, 9:00 PM (More info to come) / KG05335 Sunday, Oct 24 2010, Hopfgarten, 9:00 PM Marktplatz – Hopfgarten im Brixental Tirol 5335 (More info to come) / Monday, Oct. 25 2010, Salzburg, 9:00 PM (More info to [...] Read more – ‘Ljiljana Petkovic Orchestra, Austrian Tour, Oct. 2010’.
Making sounds to Superflex “Udkanten”: I worked out the backgrund sounds and recorded the voice of Rasmus Hammerich for the Superflex project “Udkanten.” Try give it a call ! Phone: +45 5467 7007. Read more – ‘Making sounds to Superflex “Udkanten”’.
Making sounds to Superflex “Crimetime”: I recently worked with Superflex again, making sounds to their Starplay at the Jæren planetarium in Norway. Read more – ‘Making sounds to Superflex “Crimetime”’.
Mastering music for the new Montmartre TO GO label: I just finished mastering, encoding and uploading 2 albums for the new Montmartre TO GO label in cooperation with SONY Denmark. Read more – ‘Mastering music for the new Montmartre TO GO label’.
Live sound engineering Konokone: I help my friend Solveig Sandness by doing the live sound engineering for her Konokone project. They play at Atlas in Århus and at Blågårds Plads, during the IMAGES festival. Read more – ‘Live sound engineering Konokone’.
Brumtone Label Night feat. August Engkilde & Global Units and LPO special at Tenstation Berlin: I very much look forward to this concert. We are both gonna test out new ideas for LPO, as well as we do a Global Units set, including special invited: Els Vandeweyer + surprice. And I am gonna play Cello – again! Place: Tenstation, Seydlitzstr. 6, Berlin, 10557 Showtime 20:00 Read more – ‘Brumtone Label Night feat. August Engkilde & Global Units and LPO special at Tenstation Berlin’.
August Engkilde & Global Units at Stockholm Kulturfestival august 2010: I play a show at Stockholm Kulturfestival, featuring a collaboration with GLOBAL UNITS companions Nils Berg and Joel Wästerberg. Showtime: 18-19 @ RicaLounge http://kulturfestivalen.stockholm.se More about GLOBAL UNITS: http://www.globalunits.net Read more – ‘August Engkilde & Global Units at Stockholm Kulturfestival august 2010’.
Ljiljana Petkovic Orchestra, Lithuania TOUR, July 2010: I am playing a small TOUR in Lithuania with the Ljiljana Petkovic Orchestra in July 2010. Here are the dates: • 08.07.2010 / 21 h Vasaros Terasa, Vilnius • 09.07.2010 / 0 h Satta Bar, Brumtone Fishday, Vilnius • 09.07.2010 / 22 h Marina Wine Club, Nida • 10.07.2010 / 21 h Art Docks, Kleipeda Read more – ‘Ljiljana Petkovic Orchestra, Lithuania TOUR, July 2010’.
Youtube videos from the Shanghai World Expo 2010 performance: Please read more about the project here.Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part 5: Part 6: Read more – ‘Youtube videos from the Shanghai World Expo 2010 performance’.
Pictures from the China tour may 2010: I just came back from a tour in China playing at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai, at the Nordic Center/ Fudan University, at Art World Magazine, as well as in Beijing at the C-Space gallery and a few other places. It was a very interesting and successful tour and we meet some very nice people. [...] Read more – ‘Pictures from the China tour may 2010’.
Musician: Multi-instrumentalist and sound designer: I am originally educated as a piano and double bass player, but today I more ses my self as a multi-instrumentalist and sounddesigner that plays and uses the drums, trombone, melodica, Accordion and what else will fit the track I am working at. Please read the release list to see what releases I play on. Below you see some of the instruments and soundsources I use as instruments and samples. Read more – ‘Musician’.
Tjeck Tjeck – My track of the month, April 2010: Tjeck Tjeck - Beta 3 by AugustEngkilde This track is a beta version for the upcomming album "August Engkilde & Some Brum from Denmark" by August Engkilde, to be released on brumtone spring 2010. You are welcome to make comments. More tracks will be uploaded as they are mixed. As well as vocal versions of some of the already uploaded tracks. My new 5 piece band are ready for live playing! Setup: Tuba, Trombone, Vibraphone, Drums & Me on Bas, Melodica, effects & sampler. I hope you enjoy the it. /August Read more – ‘Tjeck Tjeck – My track of the month, April 2010’.
Some press clips about my work: Read more – ‘Some press clips about my work’.
Rezo a Orishas con Bajo (Bata) – My track of the month, March 2010: Rezo a Orishas con Bajo (Bata) by August Engkilde
This is a rezo (pray) to the goods (Orishas) of the Cuban Santaria religion. The speech is by the priest Ernesto, the bata (recorded on congas on the knees) is by José Alphonso and the bass is by August Engkilde. Recorded on Cuba, spring 2003. - Yes it's old, but somehow timeless. Please have respect to the spoken words in this track! Read more – ‘Rezo a Orishas con Bajo (Bata) – My track of the month, March 2010’.
The “SNOW” Album listed as one of the 10 best Jazz releases in Denmark 2010: The album “Snow”, by August Engkilde and Henriette Groth, is listed as one of the 10 best jazz releases in Denmark 2010 on jazznyt.blogspot. Engkilde & Groth: Snow (Brumtone) August Engkildes evne til at lave genresprængende, grænsesøgende og alligevel tilgængelig musik er uden lige. Sammen med Henriette Groth har han lavet en ambient freejazz-plade der [...] Read more – ‘The “SNOW” Album listed as one of the 10 best Jazz releases in Denmark 2010’.
Producer & more: I have produced more than 15 music albums and music for film. As well I work as sound engineer and mastering engineer, having mastered more than 40 albums of own material and for other customers, including Sony Denmark, Seducer, "When Granny sleeps", Jazz Danmark, Ljiljana Petkovic Orchestra, Superflex and others. Occasionally I DJ at party's and lounge events. I have a studio at Amager from where I do mastering, band recordings, producing music, as welll as running my label brumtone and the production company LiveRec, in collaboration with Mik Neumann and Jens Walther. The LiveRec studio also hosts the global units copenhagen session, that we do every first wednesday of each month. global units An easy searchable database specialized for artists interested in collaborating on projects with other artists, and organizations associated with art. As well global units hosts artist collaboration projects like the GLOBAL PORTRAITS project. Started by me as well. Besides the music: I have worked freelance as project manager and IT specialist since 1990. My experiences includes website project management, hand programmed Filemaker solutions, computer consulting, building up small project companies, running record labels and more. Please read more on my updated "know how" list HERE: (I am currently working on getting this list updated) Read more – ‘Producer & more’.
Composer: As a composer, producer, Multi-instrumentalist & DJ I work with a very broad aspect of music genres and styles. I try focusing on the personality in the music and my search for new musical ideas is driven by my curiosity for a broad aspect of genres and cultures in general. My musical choices are therefore constantly changing. I work fluidly in both the acoustic and electronic sound world. I have composed and produced music for among others: Superflex, Ljiljana Petkovic Orchestra, EPO, Elektrazz, Wundergrund, The Danish pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo, the Mikael Kvium and Christian Lemmerz movie "The Wake", The Surface Constructors and my own solo projects. Please fell free to read and listen to some of my releases HERE... As well you can read my release list HERE... Read more – ‘Composer’.
Harpowitch – My track of the month, February 2010: Harpowitch by AugustEngkilde
The track is a appearing on the latest Brumtone Compilation called Urban Peas Heartware vol 1.
As well it's one of the tracks of my upcoming album "August Engkilde & Some Brum From Denmark". Read more – ‘Harpowitch – My track of the month, February 2010’.
The Surface Constructors / Live at the living room – Session no.1: Listen/Read/Buy - "TSC brings in fresh new inventions and dimensions to the piano trio format on this their first release.”
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Musicsystem / Electric: Listen/Read/Buy - Probably one of the most important and innovative electro compilations from the beginning of the new electro era.
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August Engkilde / Band of innner urge: Listen/Read/Buy - This release is the very first release from August Engkilde, after his 3 month stay in Cuba visiting among others the legendary "Buena vista social club" bass-player Cachaito, and the super percussion player José Alphonso. This is high class original style latin jazz from the time when this was the shit.
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Superflex & August Engkilde / “Warum Sollten wir angst vor Großen Tieren haben?”: Listen/Read/Buy - The first release and collaboration project between Superflex and August Engkilde. The music is based on animal sounds and samples. This was the base for the foundation of Musicsystem as well.
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Elektrazz / Elektrouble: Listen/Read/Buy - Elektrazz "Elektrouble" album released on Musicsystem 2000, featuring the singer Manuela Krause. This i old- and new-school elektrojazz! <br>
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August Engkilde / Police Beat Box: Listen/Read/Buy - A legendary release on Cheap Records by August Engkilde.
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August Engkilde / Kaotic brain | Beautiful noise: Listen/Read/Buy - "...Kaotic Brain continues where "Police Beat Box" on Cheap ended! A stunningly good record!" -  De-Bug - Berlin 08.
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Engkilde & Groth / Snow: Listen/Read/Buy - Charming easy listening impressionistic jazz - A well balanced blend of acoustic and electronic instrumentations played by two very fine danish musicians. Read more – ‘Engkilde & Groth / Snow’.
Ljiljana Petkovic Orchestra / Hinter dem Spiegel: Listen/Read/Buy - Ljiljana Petkovic Orchestra plays a combination of Eastern folklore rhythms, German Chansons, Jazz, Gipsy style inspired ballads as well as electronically treated beats and sounds - all together best described as “Urban Chansons“. Read more – ‘Ljiljana Petkovic Orchestra / Hinter dem Spiegel’.
August Engkilde / EPO: Listen/Read/Buy - "Released 2004 on ~Scape, Berlin. Mensch! Da steht was von einem Panorama-Orchester auf der Platte und ich denke als erstes an Fleischmann- oder Schnauss-Teppiche. Aber nichts dergleichen, sondern poppiger Jazz mit ein bisschen HipHop und Dub, Latin, Funk und immer wieder Elektro. Frida Asmussen singt direkt und auf schöne Weise eingängig auf die Songschichten. Man findet immer wieder Neues und immer mehr bei jedem Hören. Auch die vereinzelten Instrumentalstücke heften sich ins Hirn. Man kann sie laufen lassen, die Platte. Das ist still manchmal. Poppige Stille, aber keineswegs langweilig. nina ••••• (De-bug)
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Starting up new Company “LiveRec”: In collaboration with sound-engineers Mik Neumann and Jens Walther, I have started the company LiveRec, specialized in Live audio & visual recording, mixing, mastering & websale. Please read more about liverec here… Read more – ‘Starting up new Company “LiveRec”’.
Release list: This is a list of releases that August Engkilde participates on as composer, producer, band-leader and/or Bass-/keyboard-player: As the driving force: August Engkilde/ - 1/ ‘Band Of Inner Urge’, 1997 (STCD 4210) - 2/ ‘Police Beat Box’, 2000 (Cheap CDSeven and lp033 ) - 3/ ‘Mobile’, 2001 (Cheap lp35) - 4/ ‘ Kaotic Brain | Beautiful [...] Read more – ‘Release list’.
“Henning” – My track of the month, January 2010: Henning by AugustEngkilde

The organ in the beginning is a sample from Henning Christiansen, the rest is my music. The track is a tribute to Henning.

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C.V. chronologic: C.V. August Engkilde chronologic. 2012: Formming the global units projekt as an association. Releasing the solo kontrabass album “Portrait – Kontrabass”. Perfoming live solo, with the Violet River band, global unit and more. Composing new material for several upcoming projects. 2011: Performing new compositions at the Athelas New Musicfestival, the 8-Hour festival during compoenhagen distrotion, [...] Read more – ‘C.V. chronologic’.
Short info – Chinese: August Engkilde 简介 August Engkilde 是作曲家，音乐策划人，制作人，综合乐器演奏家，流行音乐家，音响设计师，并有自己的音乐制作室Brumtone。演奏底音大提琴，键盘乐器，并用电脑制作和发行了32首不同类型的电子和原声作品。他不仅感兴趣于一种类型的音乐，而感兴趣于多种不同类型的混合音乐，由于他对在实验中还未命名的音乐的热情和好奇心，创作了下列新音乐，其中有： - “Kaotic Brain | Beautiful Noise”由Brumtone, Copehagen, DK 制作 - “Police Beat Box” 由 Cheap, Vienna, AUS 制作 - “Mobile” 由 Cheap, Vienna, AUS 制作 - “E.P.O.” 由 ~Scape, Berlin, DE 制作 - “Warum sollten wir angst vor großen Tieren haben” 由 Musicsystem, Cph, DK 制作 [...] Read more – ‘Short info – Chinese’.
Some reviews of August Engkilde work up to January 2010: Engkilde & Groth – Snow (Brumtone / 009) August Engkilde am Bass, dem Nord Modular und der MPC, Henriette Groth an Klarinette und Piano. Man möchte die beiden wie eine Band vorstellen. Eine Jazzband natürlich. Eine auf dem Weg zwischen getragenen Melodien, die dem Thema entsprechen und einem gewissen Hang zum experimentell verhangenen. Das Rückgrat [...] Read more – ‘Some reviews of August Engkilde work up to January 2010’.
The Surface Constructors / Live at the living room – Session no.1: Listen/Read/Buy - "TSC brings in fresh new inventions and dimensions to the piano trio format on this their first release.
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Designing and programming filemaker management solution for Byman: I just finished the designing and programming of a filemaker based management system for BYMAN – sport & bikes. Read more – ‘Designing and programming filemaker management solution for Byman’.
Project management for Byman Website/shop construction: I just finished the management of a new website project for Byman including a webshop that syncs to their physical shop system. The project involved PHP Webside programmer Martin Kjems and Filemaker POS specialists Junior as well. Read more – ‘Project management for Byman Website/shop construction’.