Movement Shaped Like A Heart - labelfest | Xenon

Movement Shaped Like A Heart invites you to an evening at Xenon, inviting Eat The Frog collective from Berlin to perform their piece “uncivilisation - the dark mountain manifesto” - a piece based around the text by Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine, featuring the group improvising in a setting collaborating with local dancers from Copenhagen.
 

Along with this the evening will feature the art-pop duo Velvy, presenting music from their debut EP “The Room We Lived In” as well as Sture Ericson’s new trio “Ballads”.
 

All three concerts will feature Hannah Unger Coff on live visuals Movement Shaped Like A Heart is a record label and collective based in Copenhagen and Århus. Working to promote upcoming alternative from the Danish local scene and connecting it with scenes across Europe.
 

Through events with a focus on community, Movement Shaped Like A Heart works to make the concerts an experience shared between the audience and performers.

Velvy // Really Loud POP!

In a mix of innocent naivety and distorted acid trip the little child is placed in a world even the adults can’t understand. Throughout the last two years the new Danish duo Velvy consisting of Laura Teglbjærg (vocal/lyrics) and Asbjørn Busk Horne (production/ lyrics) has built up their own world sharing characteristics with electronica, rock and improvised music with a fundament in modern pop aesthetics.

Velvy released their debut-EP “The Room We Lived In” in November 2024.

Eat The Frog Kollektivet // uncivilisation – the dark mountain manifesto (political avantgarde from berlin!)

"Mainstream art in the West has long been about shock; about busting taboos, about getting noticed. This has gone on for so long that it has become common to assert that in these ironic, exhausted, post-everything times, there are no taboos left to bust. But there is one.

The last taboo is the myth of civilization. It is built upon the stories we have constructed about our genius, our indestructibility, our manifest destiny as a chosen species. It is where our vision and our self-belief intertwine with our reckless refusal to face the reality of our position on this Earth. 

It has led the human race to achieve what it has achieved; and has led the planet into the age of ecocide. The two are intimately linked.

We believe they must be decoupled if anything is to remain.

We believe that artists - which is to us the most welcoming of words, taking under its wing writers of all kinds, painters, musicians, sculptors, poets, designers, creators, makers of things, dreamers of dreams – have a responsibility to begin the process of decoupling. We believe that, in the age of ecocide, the last taboo must be broken - and that only artists can do it.“

from „Uncivilisation - The Dark Mountain Manifesto“, written by Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine (2009)

Ballads // Free improvisations !

Ballads is the meeting of Sture Ericson, Mikkel Wilstrup and Halfdan Magnus Stefansson.

It’s a fascination of the old school. Rockin’ freejazz and abstract free improvisation.

Wanting to be zen but being too messy to make it for that.

Deconstructing their instruments, both culturally and literally - delving into very abstract sounds until they turn very concrete.

Sture Ericson - reeds

Halfdan Magnus Stefansson - acoustic guitar

Mikkel Wilstrup – drums