New Nordic jazz duo Svaneborg Kardyb (pronounced kah-doob) announce Superkilen – their second album for Gondwana Records, after Over Tage (2022) and the EP At Home (2023)
The new album from Danish duo Svaneborg Kardyb – aka Nikolaj Svaneborg (keyboards) and Jonas Kardyb (drums) – is named after a public park in the ethnically diverse Nørrebro district of Copenhagen. This erstwhile strip of waste ground was repurposed by the Superflex art group in the early 2010’s to bring together immigrants and locals in a mood of tolerance and unity. Its title feels emblematic of their music, which, equally inventively, creates space and serenity as a tonic within the tense and cluttered environment of 2020’s living. In the same way that the regeneration project has transformed that neighbourhood, Svaneborg Kardyb have drawn on that positive energy to help instigate changes in their own music.
