Xenia Kriisin & Olimpia Dynarek
Xenia Kriisin and Olimpia Dynarek creates a musical experience that challenges the boundaries between concert, liturgy, and performance, seeking a language for our time. They present an innovative concert format where music, ritual, and the contemporary meet in a unique artistic expression. The result is a cohesive work that moves between spirituality, poetry, and raw musical presence. Here, there is room for both the sacred and the profane, the believers and the doubters.
Album release in 2027
Xenia Kriisin - vocals, Olimpia Dynarek - keyboard and vocals
Olimpias Orkan
Olimpias Orkan was formed out of the will to break free from genres and boxes and challenge those trough composition, improvisation and interplay. The music contains both the beautiful and the ugly, the simple and the complex, the raw and the soft and catches ears and hearts of listeners with it's unique sound and honest lyrics. Olimpias Orkan draws inspiration from different genres such as American contemporary jazz (e.g. Briand Blade & The Fellowship band), Swedish modern jazz (e.g. Klabbes Bank, Isabell Sörling Farvel), pop and folk music.
Matilda Andersson - vocals, Malin Wättring - saxophone, Adrian Åsling Sellius - saxophone, Rikard Wadman -saxophone, Olimpia Dynarek - piano, Björn Petersson - double bass, Julia Schabbauer - drums
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Paperwing
Swedish artist Paperwing moves effortlessly between cinematic soundscapes, avant-garde pop, and dreamlike sonic worlds where magic, humanity, and mystery coexist. The music seeks that which stirs the soul – from the grandest emotions to the smallest moments – always with a fascination for the unseen, the sacred, and the in-between. Paperwing’s music sounds a bit like a classical composer escaping the concert hall, stumbling into a synth, and opening a portal to another realm. Strings meet glitch. Intuition meets precision. Heart meets mind.
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Jenny Soovik - vocals, Olimpia Dynarek - keyboard, Jonathan Albrektsson - keyboard, Viktor Reuter - bass, William Soovik - drums
Gothenburg Art Ensemble
Gothenburg Art Ensemble is a platform for new music for large ensemble and big band. The orchestra consists of 19 acclaimed musicians, most of them based in Gothenburg. They worked together for a week at Atalante and played two sold-out concerts. The swedish national radio recorded the concert and played it in Jazzradion in the spring of 2023. In 2024, the orchestra was invited to be a part of the Big Band series at Fasching, Stockholm initiated by the singer and composer Lina Nyberg.
The long-term vision for GAE is to be a permanent platform for newly written music for larger ensembles and big band that can engage many different freely active musicians and composers. Every other year we want to invite a new composer that lives and works in Gothenburg, that get to put together their own version of Gothenburg Art Ensemble and write music for it. Each edition of the project shall result in a concert and recording
Album in the making
Francesca Vincentie
Born out of folk music, RnB and pop in combination with storytelling from Västerbotten in the north of Sweden, Francesca Vincentie tells stories about migration, indentity and belonging. The band has performed at festivals and stages around Sweden, and released their debut album "(Om än) I bitar, ändå hel" in 2020. In januari 2022 they are going on a tour in Indonesia to perform their music and colaborate with local musicians.
Francesca Vincentie - vocals, Olimpia Dynarek - keyboard, accordion, Cecilia Moore - saxophones, Gustav Hördegård - bass, Maria Dahlin - drums, Johan Weber - electronics
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Malin Wättring
Indie rock with strong singer-songwriter roots, colored by grunge, jazz and improvisational music. Intimacy and raw power in symbiosis! The lyrics are deeply personal but at the same time universal and deal with topics such as forgiveness, the search for truth and authenticity and the dilemma of both wanting to have and letting go of control in life. The band released their first album "Songs of wounds and healing" in march 2022 on the record label PACAYA records.
Malin Wättring - voice, guitar, Olimpia Dynarek - piano, Johanna Ekholm - bass, Maria Dahlin - drums
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NANGA
In NANGA electronic and acoustic elements meet, building dynamic soundscapes lead by vocals and lyrics where vulnerability is strength. Influences come from many directions, creating a web of genres that some have called artpop, others singer/songwriter, other r&b/soul with electronic metal-vibes. All are right.
Moa Jonsson Länne - vocals, Olimpia Dynarek - keyboard, Gustav Hördegård - bass, Maria Dahlin - drums
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