- Friday 4 July
Many were mesmerised when the Balinese ensemble Gamelan Salukat visited Roskilde Festival in 2018. One of them was Copenhagen-based electronic musician Anton Friisgaard, who had made a name for himself with his experimental tape loop music and ambient sound works under the name Hviledag.
Anton Friisgaard was not only inspired by the meditative and minimalist sound worlds of gamelan music. He saw the possibility of a real symbiosis with the electronic sound worlds he himself navigated, and he established contact with musicians from the ensemble, after which he travelled to Ubud in Bali to improvise new music in the company of artists from the Ubud gamelan scene.
The result was the wonderful album Teratai Åkande, released in 2024 on the Belgian label STROOM. It is an album that manages to create a timeless presence between ancient rituals and modern experiments, and between Nordic atmospheres and Balinese instruments.
Teratai Åkande is also the name of the project itself when performed live. And at Roskilde Festival, there will be a rare opportunity to experience these very special soundscapes unfold when Friisgaard invites several of the Balinese musicians featured on the album to join him on stage. He will be accompanied by gamelan musicians Putu Septa, Nyoman Suwida and De Gangga, and together they invite the audience to enter a unique universe of meditative electronic sounds, rich sonic textures, and hypnotic improvisations.
