Kemaca

Anti Robotic Dance Music by feat .fischer, and is out today on Bandcamp and streaming!

Recorded live at this album documents the collaboration between two of Europe’s most prolific jazz innovators.

Casper Hejlesen - guitar
Matias Fischer - drums
Kenneth Dahl Knudsen - bass

VILNIUS JJAZZ ENSEMBLE

Piano / Synth:
Andrius Savčenko

Saxophones:
Karolis Šarkus
Leonardas Pilkauskas
Liutauras Janušaitis
Mindaugas Apulskis
Simonas Šipavičius

Trumpets:
Laurynas Lapė
Apolinaras Dubauskas
Dominikas Vyšniauskas
Mindaugas Vadoklis

Trombones
Jievaras Jasinskis
Kamilė Makarevičiūtė
Povilas Jurkša
Valentas Mãrozas

All music composed and arranged by Kenneth Dahl Knudsen.

The record was produced by Lucas Illanes and Jacob Norgaard at Hideout Studio.

The album cover art is created by Uršulė Darulytė. Layout by Lukas Bjorn.

Back photo by Lukas Monrad Nass. Group photo by Kristina Petrikonytė.

This Danish-Lithunianian collaboration was produced by Doroteja Budaite at JJA Music & Lukas Bjorn at Bjorn Management.

It was supported by Statens Kunstfond, KODA Kultur, Lithuanian Culture Council, Jazz Danmark Jazzpuljen and Aalborg Kommune.

What a night at Danish-Lithuanian Jazz Night feat. Kemaca & Vilnius JJAZZ Ensemble (LT, DK) @ HeadQuarters // AJF!!

Today we play at 14:00 at Musikhuset Aarhus. It's free!

See you at Vilnius JJAZZ Ensemble (LT) & Kemaca (DK) ⦿ Aarhus Jazz Festival // Musikhuset Foyer Stage

📸 Lukas Monrad Nass // IG

Thank you for supporting the collaboration between Kemaca x Vilnius JJAZZ Ensemble:

Amira & HQ | Aarhus Jazz Orchestra | Aarhus Jazz Festival | Lietuvos kultūros taryba | LATGA | Lithuanian Culture Institute | JazzDanmark | KODA Kultur | Statens Kunstfond | Aalborg Kommune

Tonight at we have our first show of ✌️

#1 Kenneth Dahl Knudsen’s “Gloomers” feat. JJAZZ Horns - Experience excerpts from the new album where Kenneth has cut a series of strong, almost poppy and rocked jazz tracks.
🎁 #2 Project Saxcess - Five saxophones and a trombone! This all-acoustic ensemble weaves a colourful spectrum of jazz, paying homage to different facets of the city of Vilnius with compositions from six Lithuanian composers.
🎁 #3 Broken Glass Quartet: jazz meets Americana, banjo and rock in a cross-genre Lithuanian jazz BBQ party.
🎁 #4 Karolis Šarkus - Drawing on funk, rock and Scandinavian jazz, saxophonist Sarkus has matured his sound with elements from both American jazz traditions and Lithuanian folk melodies.
🎁 #5 Leonardas Pilkauskas - Melodic twists that challenge rhythmic conventions.
🎁 #6 Gediminas Strupinskas - deep, intricate melodies and rich harmonies that draw on American jazz traditions.
🎁 #7 Domantas Razmus - blends experimental electronica with dynamic percussion.
🎁 #8 Sheep Effect - saxophonist Simonas Šipavičius blends jazz and electronic jazz in a wild mix of loop effects and saxophone screams.