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Improvised. Expressive. Beautiful. Ambient. Alive.
“Dybbroe, Saarup, and Kragelund play music that demands your full attention (…) you have to sharpen your ears, but in return, you’re rewarded with image-evoking auditory narratives from the wild – but also human-manipulated – nature (…) The trio, thanks in part to Kragelund’s electronic tools and live processing, manages to conjure up a universe where anything can happen. We walk in the green forest, deep into the caves, down into the underground, and then back up, ascending toward the clouds. Constantly emotionally enveloping, at times free as a bird.”
– David Dyrholm, Politiken

Together, Køs unite their love of grandeur and fragility in a search for intense new sonic landscapes. In recent years, the trio has received significant attention in Scandinavia for their highly distinctive sound, where free improvisation is at the core.
In an electroacoustic universe, the sounds of woodwinds, strings, drums, and vocals are blended, bent, and manipulated – where instruments both merge, stand out, and form new harmonies. Sometimes the music resembles a pop hit – other times it sounds like ambient symphonic music – or suddenly, like a blanket of noise.

As a listener, you must be prepared for long-form developments, expressive outbursts, beautiful melodies, expansive sonic textures, repetitive rhythmic layers, and large dynamic shifts.

Køs has been playing together since 2014 and is known from diverse bands such as Caktus, Josiah Konder, Merdh Laleh, Winter, Goon, and Marni.

In 2021, they released the album ‘Ud af en mund’ (‘Out of a Mouth’) in collaboration with poet Pia Tafdrup, based on excerpts from her quintology on the senses. Køs has also collaborated with saxophonists Lars Greve and Lotte Anker, violinist Nils Gröndahl, percussionist Victor Dybbroe, drummers Anders Vestergaard and P.O. Jørgens, visual artists Hilal Can and Ingerlise Ølgaard, and lighting designer Torfinn Sommerfeldt Lysne.

Køs creates music where the journey is the excitement – and presence and expression are essential. 

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