We’ve had so much amazing feedback after the release of the Quisanadolele music video! Thank you to every single one of you. This IKI girl’s favourite quote has got to be: “It’s like Bobby McFerrin meets David Lynch in Finland”.

And to save it all for posterity here’s a little list of some places the video has been mentioned lately:
I DO ART, written by our very own animator, Louise From
Nordic By Nature, “Ok, IKI seem pretty nuts, but that’s something we normally like.”
Tabberaset, “Enligt Froms hemsida vill de göra fler samarbeten och det hoppas man verkligen på!”
PG Special Agent, “It’s a wonderful and funny animation film”
ArtRebels, “‘Quisanadolele’ is a quirky journey captured in an intriguing mix of drawings and animation.”

And if you haven’t seen it yet, what are you waiting for?

Art by Stine Hvid. Animation by Louise From.

Supported by the Danish Arts Council.

It’s official, this year IKI is playing at SPOT Festival! We’re super excited and hope to see you in Århus, the 5th of May!

In other news our first music video is just days from being released. There will a countdown over at our facebook, in the days following up to it. We saw it for the first time yesterday and the general consensus was: “It just keeps getting better each time we see it!”. Our artist and animator, Stine Hvid and Louise From, have done an amazing job. We couldn’t be more happy about it! What does insects and birch trees have to do with IKI? Well, you’re about to find out!

A shout-out to the Danish Arts Council who has supported the video.

And while you’re waiting why not rediscover this beautiful video from our trip to Lillehammer and Dølajazz?

Saturday, 05/11, we won a Danish Music Award for Best Vocal Jazz Release of the Year! We’re so happy and proud, and would like to send a warm thank you and lots of love to all of you who have been there for us through the making of the record. Wow, we’re still pinching ourselves!

Naturally we’ve talked to a lot of people lately, so here are a few links from the last days:
DK
Interview, DR P8 Jazz, 31/10 (IKI @ 09:58)
Berlingske, 05/11
IS
Kvöldfréttir, RÚV, 06/11 (IKI @ 12:20)
Morgunblaðið – mbl.is, 05/11
Vísir, 03/11

Find more on our Press page.

And last, but not least: a photo of seven ecstatic IKI girls and our award!

This Sunday, 06/11, IKI has the great pleasure of doing a live recording with famous Japanese vocal improviser Koichi Makigami, Søren Kjærgaard on piano (DK) and Torben Snekkestad on sax (NO)!

The place is The Village Recording, Skalbakken 15, Vanløse, the time is 19:00.

It’s going to be an exciting and extraordinary experience and we hope you will be there to share it with us!

And here’s a video of Koichi Makigami – a little preview of what you might experience on Sunday!

DMA Jazz has nominated our record to Danish Vocal Jazz Release of the Year! We’re so honoured and excited, and looking very much forward to the award show in Huset i Magstræde, 05/11.

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And it feels like it was only yesterday our record was born…

Fall is here, IKI is going into our 3rd year, and we’re still going strong!

The last few months have been filled with so many exciting things. We joined Distortion Festival for the Live Mixtape Royal (check out pictures on our facebook) where we played with, among others, Midnight Magic. It was a blast!

In August we went into the studio with Jørgen Leth, and made a beautiful track to Grevens.Fejde’s poetry+music album. We had an amazing time with Jørgen and we look forward to hopefully working with him again in the future.

And now we have two concerts coming up. First there’s “Musik for de sultende”, “Music for the hungry”, a charity concert for the hunger crisis in East Africa (read more here). And on Saturday we’re dressing up as pirates for RockPiraten at The Rock in Copenhagen (link). So if you’re in the area bring your parrot and join the party!

Peace and Love,
IKI

IKI – Album Release – Live Excerpts from Tapani Toivanen on Vimeo.

The project is supported by Danish Arts Council.

With two fun concerts at Copenhagen Jazz Festival, IKI is taking a concert break until August. In the mean time, we are happy to announce that two new reviews have ticked in for our beloved album! Enjoy them here:

Review in Danish music magazine “Gaffa”

Review in Danish jazz blog “Jazzstjerner”

Or better yet, buy the album HERE and make up your own mind!

Summer lovin’
Mari & IKI