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..2025 was a rough one for all. Still hoping that we'll all get wiser - and more peaceful. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

But - we kept playing the music, and talking to people. A few memorable musical highlights was working with Almut Kühne, Francesco Bigoni and dancer Bee Brown. A concert at H15 Studio completely went through the roof.

Releasing the Confluencia album in the TUNGEMÅL series on ILK Music was a true highlight. The way Susana Santos Silva, Simon Simon Toldam and Ingar Zach got involved with my music was humbling. Beautiful release concert extravaganza at Hotel Cecil with the entire BABEL ensemble + Viktoria Søndergaard. The Quartet line-up also visited Cologne Jazzweek and LOFT Köln.

Reviews got pretty crazy all over:

❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎ (6/6) ” ..a new central work in Danish music” and “A remarkable achievement that sets both my body and mind in motion. .. just look, hope is still alive.” – David Dyrholm, Politiken (DK)

“What makes the album truly powerful is what many experimental lack: Space for contemplation and dialogue with the listener. Tungemål dares to be experimental without overpowering itself”. - Simon Heggum, Seismograf (DK)“

It is a work that is as musical as it is architectural and a coherent whole” - Mattheiu Jouan, Citizen Jazz (Fr)

★★★★★★ 6/6“As a listener, you allow yourself to be led through the rooms, constantly drawn toward discovering what lies around the next corner."Jørgen Nielsen, All That (DK)

★★★★☆".. Solborg offers nine aesthetically compelling avant-garde chamber pieces that leave a bold imprint due to their originality." - Filipe Freitas, JazzTrail.

Later I was nominated for a Danish Music Award Jazz - Composer of the Year, for the work with Confluencia. Great evening by Jazz Danmark.

Thanks again - we truly appreciate that you took the time to listen to our work.

Meeting amazing saxophonist Michaela Turcerová on stage felt like a stroke of luck. We visited venues in Denmark and France, incl. the great Jazzdor festival in Strasbourg with Simon Toldam. More will come from that, stay tuned.

An encounter with author Amina Elmi Albertslund combining music, poetry and croquis was super intense.

Picking up on the Solborg / Banke / Heebøll trio and adding Viktoria Søndergaard for a beautiful evening at the Dänische Botschaft in Deutschland. More to come in 2026.

Other parts of 2025 life included a new position teaching composition at RMC - Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium. As chair of the collective and Label ILK Music, the board and I worked intensely with funding, our new label manager and investigating new venues incl. an exciting new collaboration with the venue KU.BE at Frederiksberg. Looking forward.

The year ended with a sad and beautiful goodbye to the great Marilyn Mazur. ..safe travels Marilyn, I know you're still dancing and playing out there somewhere.

The next weeks I'll have my hands full with preparations for Vinterjazz concerts, new 2026 releases and works for 2026/27. (*☻-☻*). More on all that in spring.

Take care - talk to your neighbour and people you don't know.

Photos: Frank Schemmann, Malthe Folke Ivarsson, Teona Goreci, Christian Vogel, Claes Solborg Pedersen, MS.Video: Fredrik Auster

When I had the opportunity to rent the historic Clarke Memorial Hall at a reduced rate, my intention was to record live performance video for promotion. I then discovered that this local landmark near my home was where my in-laws had first met at a music festival 70 years ago. The space suddenly took on a new significance and things unfolded from there, with a kind of magic. Juno-nominated audio engineer Dave Vanderploeg brought in studio recording gear to capture the beautiful acoustics of the century old community hub. Juno Award-winning musicians Justin Abedin on electric guitar, Sean O' Connor on whistle, flute and saxophones, and me on my acoustic guitar, set out to capture a group of songs live off the floor in one freewheeling take. As we listened back to the afternoon's performances, it dawned on everyone that something special had happened. These 12 tracks became my 5th full-length release, "The Clarke Hall Sessions". The unrepeatable spontaneity and creative energy of this collection includes 7 previously unreleased songs, 4 reinterpretations of fan favourites and a cool Celtic-flavoured cover of Van Morrison's "Into The Mystic.” You could say that this album is my "Trinity Sessions" - capturing what is most important to me about music, the songs and playing live.  Listen to the album and check out live videos for each song here.  Meet you in the music!

Happy New Year everyone ✨

Thank you for being part of the Copenhagen Music Academy community.

CMA is growing nicely now to be what I hoped it would be - a place for music producers who want real craft, solid skills, and genuine progress.

Over the past year, we were really able to take full advantage of what a live recording studio can offer — for example when we recorded the band Anomy with students from the Advanced Pro course (check it here).

2026 is about going deeper - listening more, making stronger decisions, and creating music that actually lasts.

I’m really looking forward to meeting all of you who’ve signed up for the upcoming courses.

All the best,

Boe (... and 4 year old Birk :-))

I read a book called the Music Lesson by the famous bass player Victor Wooten. It made me very curious about deepening my relationship with music and with mystery. That curiosity lead me to “Vixcamps”, a five-day “Spirit of Music” camp west of Nashville that changed my relationship with music forever. It sent me, after 8 years since my last recording, on a journey “Underneath” - a creative adventure to hunt down and record an eclectic and colourful group of songs that seemed to want to hang out together.  I was very blessed to have the amazing Juno Award-winning Justin Abedin come on board and help me produce this record, as well as Grammy-winning Chad Carlson who mixed the record. It might just be my most eclectic record yet and it’s a bit of a crazy ride. Listen to the record and check out some extra video content here.  Meet you in the music!