13.–14.02.26: Final Descent Into Vinterjazz
Two Nights Beyond Jazz
Two nights, two stages and ten acts exploring the outer edges of jazz – from manic noise rock, complex math and monolithic drone rock to minimalist shoegaze, solo performances, electronic experiments and even a detour to a Ghanaian percussion legend.
Final Descent Into Vinterjazz is a collaboration between Final Descent and HUSET CPH, presenting a deep dive into everything jazz can also be, spread across the two top floors of Huset.
Lineup: Bali Snak (DK) / Basile Bremaud (FR) / Hands on Fire (INT) / Nightmaries (DK) / Nina Garcia (FR) / Nuri (TN) / Okeyrema Asante (GH) / Portal Pets (DK/HN) / Selvhenter (DK) / Tanz Mein Herz (FR)
Date: Friday 13.02.26
Doors: 18:30
Show: 19:00
Price: 100 DKK for one concert / 150 DKK for one evening / 250 DKK for both evenings
Venue: Musikcaféen & Xenon, Huset Kbh, Rådhusstræde 13, 1466 Copenhagen
Program:
Friday 13/02/2026
18:30 Doors
19:00 Okeyrema Asante (GH)
20:00 Bali Snak (DK)
21:00 Basile Bremaud (FR)
22:00 Portal Pets (DK/HN)
23:00 Nuri (TN)
Saturday 14/02/2026
18:30 Doors
19:00 Selvhenter (DK)
20:00 Nina Garcia (FR)
21:00 Hands On Fire (INT)
22:00 Nightmaries (DK)
23:00 Tanz Mein Herz (FR)
☉☉☉☉ Line Up ☉☉☉☉
Bali Snak (DK)
A seething, ferocious blast of math-rock, noise and free-flowing energy.
It’s unpredictable, beautiful and chaotic when Bali Snak step out of their stripped-down rehearsal space in Nørrebro and tear through with their intense live shows.
With a massive wall of sound built from technical, dissonant instrumental rock, sporadic song structures and lyrics so dark they were destined to be removed, the four young musicians deliver a loud and absurd musical experience.
Basile Bremaud (FR)
Basile Brémaud is a French violinist and singer who specializes in traditional musical traditions from the Massif Central region of France, including Auvergne, Limousin and Languedoc. He is deeply committed to exploring the connection between song, dance and instrumental music within these traditions.
By highlighting the droning, hypnotic qualities of folk music, Brémaud pushes the tradition toward ambient and techno with his long, transcendent vocal pieces.
Basile is a member of several groups, including Duo Artense, Tornamai, TRES and the La Nòvia collective, where he contributes to both preserving and renewing traditional music.
Portal Pets (DK/HN)
The Copenhagen-based band Portal Pets is ready to dissolve the boundaries between the earthly and the otherworldly. Through voice and guitar they create a captivating fusion of celestial melodies and haunted sonic textures. Their sound explores raw connectedness and emotional vulnerability, woven together with expansive atmospheres that transport the listener to realms where beauty, sorrow and magic coexist.
Formed by interdisciplinary artists Xenia Xamanek and Emil Palme, Portal Pets is a collision of two visionary minds long rooted in Copenhagen’s experimental music scene. On drums is Oliver Laumann. Together they unite to share their unique voice with the world, transcending genres and expectations to create something deeply personal and universally resonant.
Okyerema Asante (GH)
Okyerema Asante is a legendary Ghanaian master percussionist and one of the world’s great virtuosos of the talking drum. His extraordinary rhythmic sense has travelled from Ghana onto the global stage through collaborations with Paul Simon (Graceland), Fleetwood Mac, Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba.
Known for transforming himself into an entire ensemble on stage, Asante blends traditional Ghanaian drumming with jazz, funk and spiritual energy. His solo albums Drum Message and Sabi (Get Down) are considered classics within afro-jazz and percussion music.
A living link between African tradition and global sound, Okyerema Asante’s concerts are explosive, story-driven experiences — where ancient rhythms collide with modern hand-played techno.
Selvhenter (DK)
Selvhenter’s expression transcends musical genres and moves toward something more fundamental – a striking, direct and physical experience of music built from polyrhythms, acoustic and electronic melodies, hard-hitting compositional choices and improvised beauty.
Their sound is driven by powerful rhythmic patterns woven together by two drum kits, a trombone that hits the body straight through a bass amplifier, and a saxophone that shifts between revealing the instrument’s true nature and being processed into complete unrecognisability.
Nina Garcia (FR)
Since 2015, Nina Garcia has been researching and creating works centred on the electric guitar, positioned somewhere between improvisation and noise. Her setup is stripped to the absolute minimum: one guitar, one pedal and one amplifier, which she uses to sculpt sound and step into chaos to bring forth the unheard.
Garcia’s solo practice focuses on gesture and the investigation of the guitar itself: its resonances, its limits, its extensions, its impurities, its hidden possibilities. Working with or against the sound, holding it down or letting it unfold as wild, unrestrained resonance.
Nuri (TN)
Nuri is a Tunisian producer whose sound grows from deep African roots into futuristic electronic landscapes. His productions merge hypnotic, polyrhythmic grooves, progressive textures and hand-played organic percussion into cohesive, cinematic soundscapes that feel both ritualistic and forward-looking.
Immersed in musical traditions and guided by a deep understanding of rhythm, Nuri creates an immersive world where floating, spatial electronics meet vivid folk elements and heavy jungle grooves. His music spans from Africa to Asia, connecting ancient influences with contemporary club energy, turning both concerts and dancefloors into transformative, trance-like experiences.
Hands On Fire (INT)
Hands On Fire is a free-punk big band project made up of 9+ musicians with diverse backgrounds – from improv and punk to classical and noise. Their music is a mosaic of improvisation and composition, circling around themes such as movement, handsi ji, fog and anti-imperialism.
Expect an overstimulating experience where solid compositional foundations give rise to bursts of noise, expressive wildness and free solo excursions in a musical universe that nods back to the spiritual jazz of the 1960s while keeping one foot in 1980s no wave and today’s genre-free experimental scene.
Nightmaries (DK)
Your dreams turn into nightmares when newly debuted Nightmaries pulls out of the barrels and wades into the darkness (the underground music industry cult) with big bloody boots and a few home-brewed, not very genre-conscious cutecowboydoomer tracks created in a studio in the northwest by a gardener, a graphic artist and a costume designer.
The world is darkening, and art is the first place where it is felt as a mirror that shows too much and too late.
Tanz Mein Herz (DK)
Tanz Mein Herz is a French avant-folk and drone collective rooted in Auvergne’s experimental music scene. The group emerged in the mid-2000s as a creative free space for members of Toad and France – a fluid ensemble without artistic boundaries, driven by a desire to explore shared movement, resonance and infinite rhythmic patterns.
With an expanded lineup bringing together key figures from the Standard In-Fi circle, Tanz Mein Herz creates long-form, hypnotic works where acoustic drones, rhythmic repetition and collective improvisation intertwine into a powerful, kaleidoscopic soundscape.
☉☉☉☉ Thanks ☉☉☉☉
The festival is supported by Danish Musicians Union, Danish Tennis Fund and Danish Composers' Society through Koda Kultur. Final Descent and Huset are supported by Copenhagen Municipality and the Danish Arts Council.
The festival is part of Vinterjazz – a nationwide music festival that takes place in February each year. Read more about Vinterjazz here.