08.04.26: Svarte Greiner (NO) + Tegn (DK)
Drone
Step down into the ominous darkness of drones as we present Tegns’ captivating improvisations and Svarte Greiner’s endless soundscapes in the atmospheric surroundings of Basement.
Date: Wednesday 08.04.26
Doors: 19:30
Show: 20:00
Price: 100 dkr in presale / 130 dkr at the door
Venue: Basement, Enghavevej 42, 1674 København V
Svarte Greiner (NO)
A sonic universe situated between the post-classical and the electroacoustic.
Starting from the electric guitar in combination with extended techniques and effects, Svarte Greiner builds simple, fragile sound passages that gradually become enveloped in reverb, delay, and textural layers. Prepared techniques function as both percussive and dissonant elements, resulting in surreal, cinematic sound collages where beauty and darkness coexist within slowly shifting structures.
Live, he creates intense, almost time-suspending soundscapes with a haunting, cinematic quality. He has performed widely across Europe, on both intimate stages and at larger festivals, including as support on Fever Ray’s debut European tour in 2009. Over the years, he has collaborated with artists such as Jóhann Jóhannsson, Nils Frahm, Aidan Baker, Jasmine Guffond, Marit Følstad, and many more.
Svarte Greiner is an alias of the Norwegian composer and sound artist Erik K. Skodvin, founder of the acclaimed record label Miasmah, and known as one half of Deaf Center. He is a prominent figure within experimental and dark ambient music, widely recognized for the debut album Knive (2006), which helped define the so-called “acoustic doom” aesthetic.
Tegn (DK)
A meditative meeting between the processed and the organic.
Through modulated pedal steel, Magnus Munk Tækker conjures crystalline, longing drones that, in interplay with Jens Højbøge Mosegaard’s free percussion, form tension-filled, extended improvisations where the traditional relationship between solo and rhythm instrument dissolves. The result is organic sound collages balancing the introspective and the mournful with a sense of looming unpredictability.
Tegn’s feel for slowly evolving dynamics and the relationship between tension and ecstasy brings to mind groups such as The Necks, Talk Talk, and Dirty Three, yet their expression is unmistakably their own. With their feet firmly planted in the forward-moving music collective Movement Shaped Like a Heart, Tegn offer a deeply personal and fresh-sounding take on what improvised rock can sound like in 2026.