Jacob Anderskov - Vinterstemmer (2026) [Hi-Res]

Anderskov brings new life to winter songs. With Vinterstemmer (‘Winter Voices’), the highly acclaimed musician, composer, and band leader Jacob Anderskov opens a new chapter in his ongoing work with radical reinterpretations of Danish song material.

Recorded live in Dronningesalen at The Black Diamond, Cph., the album consists of a series of winter songs in a distinctive format where top-level improvisation and several passages of communal singing are seamlessly interwoven. The audience recurringly becomes part of the musical flow, while the work preserves its open, abstract character.

In Anderskov’s hands, the songs are never mere reproductions. They are rather treated as “found” material – transformed, re-ignited, resurrected. On Vinterstemmer, the song tradition meets a creative, investigative approach in which the songs are cast in a completely new light – not as nostalgic cultural heritage, but as a living body of material that must be renegotiated to retain its essence.

Anderskov states: “I wanted to continue and expand the trajectory of the album I SANG (2024), this time focusing on songs about the Scandinavian winter, and on that particular part of the Nordic psyche that opens during the dark season.”

The album offers an encounter with a Nordic spirituality that reaches further back than the history of the old songs themselves, while the musical approach remains strikingly unconventional. Overall, it is a work that explores new ways of being together in music – even when the music moves into unpredictable territory.

Kasper Tranberg, trumpet
Maria Laurette Friis, vocals, effects
Jakob Munch, vocals, tuba
Jakob Høyer, drums, effects
Jacob Anderskov, piano
Audience, singing

Recorded live at Dronningesalen, Den Sorte Diamant, Kbh., 3/2 ’24.
Recorded by John Fomsgaard
Mixed by August Wanngren
Mastering by John Fomsgaard